A week in security (April 24 -30)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: LockBit and Cl0p ransomware gangs actively exploiting Papercut vulnerabilities Update now: Critical flaw in VMWare Fusion and VMWare Workstation Magecart threat actor rolls out convincing modal forms Fileless attacks: How attackers evade traditional AV and how to...

Threat Source newsletter (April 27, 2023) — New Cisco Secure offerings and extra security from Duo

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Im writing this earlier in the week as I get ready for some personal travel everyone is lucky I passed on writing another Cybersecurity Mock Draft, so apologies if I miss anything major that happens at RSA. But Cisco beat everyone to...

NSA Cybersecurity Director Says ‘Buckle Up’ for Generative AI

The security issues raised by ChatGPT and similar tech are just beginning to emerge, but Rob Joyce says it’s time to prepare for what comes next...

Security Risks of AI

Stanford and Georgetown have a new report on the security risks of AI--particularly adversarial machine learning--based on a workshop they held on the topic. Jim Dempsey, one of the workshop organizers, wrote a blog post on the report: As a first step, our report recommends the inclusion of AI...

Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election

No matter what happens with generative AI, its disruptive forces are already beginning to play a role in the fast-approaching US presidential race...

ChatGPT writes insecure code

Research by computer scientists associated with the Universite du Quebec in Canada has found that ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular chatbot, is prone to generating insecure code. "How Secure is Code Generated by ChatGPT?" is the work of Raphael Khoury, Anderson Avila, Jacob Brunelle, and Baba Mamadou...

AI to Aid Democracy

Theres good reason to fear that AI systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken in by superficially convincing bullshit, or obsessed by folies à deux...

Security Advisory - Identity Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei HiLink AI Life Product

Huawei HiLink AI Life product has an identity authentication bypass vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow attackers to access restricted functions.Vulnerability ID:HWPSIRT-2022-42291 This vulnerability has been assigned a CVEID:CVE-2022-48470...

Google Cloud Introduces Security AI Workbench for Faster Threat Detection and Analysis

Google's cloud division is following in the footsteps of Microsoft with the launch of Security AI Workbench that leverages generative AI models to gain better visibility into the threat landscape. Powering the cybersecurity suite is Sec-PaLM, a specialized large language model LLM that's...

Google Cloud Introduces Security AI Workbench for Faster Threat Detection and Analysis

Google's cloud division is following in the footsteps of Microsoft with the launch of Security AI Workbench that leverages generative AI models to gain better visibility into the threat landscape. Powering the cybersecurity suite is Sec-PaLM, a specialized large language model LLM that's...

Exploit for Insecure Default Initialization of Resource in Apache Superset

CVE-2023-27524: Apache Superset Auth Bypass Script to check if...

CVE-2023-24386

The CVE refers to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WordPress plugin “Karishma Arora AI Contact Us Form” versions <= 1.0. The issue is described as Auth. (admin+) XSS, indicating that authenticated users with admin-level privileges can exploit it. The root cause document...

WordPress Plugin AI Contact Us Form 跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists...

Exploit for Improper Access Control in Papercut Papercut_Mf

CVE-2023-27350 POC for CVE-2023-27350 affecting PaperCut MF/NG...

PYSEC-2023-27

mindsdb is a Machine Learning platform to help developers build AI solutions. In affected versions an unsafe extraction is being performed using tarfile.extractall from a remotely retrieved tarball. Which may lead to the writing of the extracted files to an unintended location. Sometimes, the...

CVE-2023-30620

The CVE-2023-30620 issue affects MindsDB where an unsafe extraction using tarfile.extractall() on a remotely retrieved tarball can write extracted files to unintended locations (TarSlip/ZipSlip-like). Affected MindsDB versions allowed remote tarball extraction without path validation, enabling ar...

CVE-2023-30620 Arbitrary File Write when Extracting a Remotely retrieved Tarball in mindsdb/mindsdb

mindsdb is a Machine Learning platform to help developers build AI solutions. In affected versions an unsafe extraction is being performed using tarfile.extractall from a remotely retrieved tarball. Which may lead to the writing of the extracted files to an unintended location. Sometimes, the...

CVE-2023-30620 Arbitrary File Write when Extracting a Remotely retrieved Tarball in mindsdb/mindsdb

mindsdb is a Machine Learning platform to help developers build AI solutions. In affected versions an unsafe extraction is being performed using tarfile.extractall from a remotely retrieved tarball. Which may lead to the writing of the extracted files to an unintended location. Sometimes, the...

14 Kubernetes and Cloud Security Challenges and How to Solve Them

Recently, Andrew Martin, founder and CEO of ControlPlane, released a report entitled Cloud Native and Kubernetes Security Predictions 2023. These predictions underscore the rapidly evolving landscape of Kubernetes and cloud security, emphasizing the need for organizations to stay informed and ado...

14 Kubernetes and Cloud Security Challenges and How to Solve Them

Recently, Andrew Martin, founder and CEO of ControlPlane, released a report entitled Cloud Native and Kubernetes Security Predictions 2023. These predictions underscore the rapidly evolving landscape of Kubernetes and cloud security, emphasizing the need for organizations to stay informed and ado...