CVE-2010-0249Security
Operation Aurora: The IE Zero-Day That Named an Era
A use-after-free flaw in Internet Explorer, exploited in a targeted espionage campaign against Google and 20+ organizations.
Cybersecurity, zero-trust, vulnerability research, and practical defense for modern engineering teams. In-depth analysis, hands-on guides, and field reports from working engineers.
Ten landmark zero-day vulnerabilities, in chronological order—from Operation Aurora and Stuxnet to Log4Shell, MOVEit, Citrix Bleed and SharePoint ToolShell. Each with a full, fact-checked technical breakdown.
A use-after-free flaw in Internet Explorer, exploited in a targeted espionage campaign against Google and 20+ organizations.
The worm that chained multiple Windows zero-days to reach industrial control systems at Natanz.
Four flaws in on-premises Exchange Server that turned an SSRF into full server takeover, attributed initially to HAFNIUM.
A CoreGraphics JBIG2 integer overflow abused through iMessage, attributed to NSO Group's Pegasus by Citizen Lab.
A maximum-severity JNDI lookup flaw in the ubiquitous Log4j library, affecting hundreds of millions of devices.
An MSDT flaw invoked through the ms-msdt: URI scheme from an Office document, running code with minimal interaction.
A pre-authentication SQL injection mass-exploited by CL0P to deploy the LEMURLOOT web shell and steal data.
A NetScaler memory leak that exposed reusable session tokens, enabling session hijacking and MFA bypass.
An auth bypass chained with a command injection for unauthenticated RCE on Ivanti edge gateways.
A deserialization flaw in on-premises SharePoint Server, disclosed during active exploitation. SharePoint Online was not affected.
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