Windows Installer Zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild
2 November 2021
Hackers are actively exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-41379. This privilege escalation was discovered by a security researcher, Abdelhamid Naceri. Hackers can gain full access to the systems, download additional software and exfiltrate sensitive information stored in the machine
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