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Kaspersky Security

Are Electron-based desktop applications secure? | Kaspersky official blog

September 14, 2023 admin Browsers, Business, chrome, electron, enterprise, linux, MacOS, SMB, Updates, vulnerabilities, windows

Credit to Author: Alanna Titterington| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:18:37 +0000

Many popular desktop applications are based on the Electron framework. We explain why this can pose a security problem.

Security Sophos

Attacker combines phone, email lures into believable, complex attack chain

August 10, 2023 admin defcon, electron, Featured, image spam, notepad++, socat, Social engineering, sophos x-ops, threat research, Tor, war stories

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:00:10 +0000

A social engineering phone call lends authenticity to the attacker’s malicious email

MalwareBytes Security

Researchers found one-click exploits in Discord and Teams

August 15, 2022 admin discord, electron, electronjs, Exploits and vulnerabilities, log4j, log4shell, microsoftteams, news, NodeJS, Spotify, v8 chrome

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Discord

Tags: Spotify

Tags: MicrosoftTeams

Tags: Electron

Tags: ElectronJS

Tags: NodeJS

Tags: V8 Chrome

Tags: Log4Shell

Tags: Log4j

A group of security researchers found a series of vulnerabilities in the software underlying popular apps like Discord, Microsoft Teams, and many others

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