![]() This reclassification has ramifications for numerous and popular apps using libwebp, which includes 1Password, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari and Signal. This vulnerability was initially misidentified as a Chrome vulnerability, but Google has since assigned it to the open source libwebp library used to encode and decode images in WebP format. The release of an emergency patch for Chrome comes just weeks after Google fixed another actively exploited zero-day that was discovered by Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) team and Citizen Lab, a digital rights organization at The University of Toronto that has investigated spyware for more than a decade. ![]() Predator is a spyware developed by Cytrox, a controversial commercial spyware vendor, that can steal the contents of a victim’s phone once installed. Just last week, Google TAG revealed that three zero-days recently patched by Apple were pushed out to block an exploit used to plant the Predator spyware on the phone of an Egyptian presidential candidate. ![]()
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