Four hacker groups exploited a zero-day flaw in the Zimbra Collaboration email software to steal email data, user credentials, and authentication tokens. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered these activities, most of which occurred after the initial fix became public on GitHub. TAG warned organizations to promptly fix their mail servers and noted a pattern of hackers exploiting XSS vulnerabilities in mail servers.
Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux
Security firm ESET has found the first known example of a Linux UEFI bootkit, a type of malware that infects the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.