A week in security (July 28 – August 3)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Apple ID scam leads to $27,000 in-person theft of Ohio man OpenAI kills "short-lived experiment" where ChatGPT chats could be found on Google Trump Administration and Big Tech want you to share your health data Prison visitor details shared with all inmates at...

Trump Administration and Big Tech want you to share your health data

US President Donald Trump announced a loose plan Wednesday to allow Americans to voluntarily upload and port their medical records across hospitals, clinics, technology companies, and health apps, with broad participation from Google, Apple, OpenAI, Amazon, and more. While the system could help...

China’s Salt Typhoon Hackers Breached the US National Guard for Nearly a Year

Plus: Secret IRS data-sharing with ICE, a 20-year-old hackable vulnerability in train brakes, and more...

A Distributed Generative AI Approach for Heterogeneous Multi-Domain Environments under Data Sharing Constraints

Federated Learning has gained increasing attention for its ability to enable multiple nodes to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their raw data. At the same time, Generative AI -- particularly Generative Adversarial Networks GANs -- have achieved remarkable success...

Empowering Digital Agriculture: a Privacy-Preserving Framework for Data Sharing and Collaborative Research

Data-driven agriculture, which integrates technology and data into agricultural practices, has the potential to improve crop yield, disease resilience, and long-term soil health. However, privacy concerns, such as adverse pricing, discrimination, and resource manipulation, deter farmers from...

Blockchain Powered Edge Intelligence for U-Healthcare in Privacy Critical and Time Sensitive Environment

Edge Intelligence EI serves as a critical enabler for privacy-preserving systems by providing AI-empowered computation and distributed caching services at the edge, thereby minimizing latency and enhancing data privacy. The integration of blockchain technology further augments EI frameworks by...

Understanding the Relationship between Personal Data Privacy Literacy and Data Privacy Information Sharing by University Students

With constant threats to the safety of personal data in the United States, privacy literacy has become an increasingly important competency among university students, one that ties intimately to the information sharing behavior of these students. This survey based study examines how university...

CVE-2024-52507

Nextcloud Tables allows users to to create tables with individual columns. The information which Table numeric ID is shared with which groups and users and the respective permissions was not limited to affected users. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Tables app is upgraded to 0.8.1...

Modeling Interdependent Privacy Threats

The rise of online social networks, user-gene-rated content, and third-party apps made data sharing an inevitable trend, driven by both user behavior and the commercial value of personal information. As service providers amass vast amounts of data, safeguarding individual privacy has become...

CVE-2020-0747

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Data Sharing Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Windows Data Sharing Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0659...

CVE-2020-0659

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Data Sharing Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Windows Data Sharing Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-0747...

CVE-2019-12410

While investigating UBSAN errors in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/5365 it was discovered Apache Arrow versions 0.12.0 to 0.14.1, left memory Array data uninitialized when reading RLE null data from parquet. This affected the C++, Python, Ruby and R implementations. The uninitialized memory...

CVE-2019-1379

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Data Sharing Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Windows Data Sharing Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1383, CVE-2019-1417...

CVE-2019-1417

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Data Sharing Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Windows Data Sharing Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1379, CVE-2019-1383...

CVE-2019-1383

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Data Sharing Service improperly handles file operations, aka 'Windows Data Sharing Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1379, CVE-2019-1417...

SUSE CVE-2024-13009

In Eclipse Jetty versions 9.4.0 to 9.4.56 a buffer can be incorrectly released when confronted with a gzip error when inflating a request body. This can result in corrupted and/or inadvertent sharing of data between requests...

CVE-2025-47792 Nextcloud Desktop 3rdparty applications can create share links via socket API

Nextcloud Desktop is the desktop sync client for Nextcloud. In versions of Nextcloud Desktop prior to 3.15, 3rdparty applications already installed on a user machine can create link shares for almost all data via the socket API. These shares can then be easily sent off to an external service...

CVE-2025-47792 Nextcloud Desktop 3rdparty applications can create share links via socket API

Nextcloud Desktop is the desktop sync client for Nextcloud. In versions of Nextcloud Desktop prior to 3.15, 3rdparty applications already installed on a user machine can create link shares for almost all data via the socket API. These shares can then be easily sent off to an external service...

PT-2025-21658

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Nextcloud Desktop versions prior to 3.15 Description: The issue affects Nextcloud Desktop, allowing 3rd party applications to create link shares for almost all data via the socket API. These shares can then be sent to an external service...

**UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED** GzipHandler causes part of request body to be seen as request body of a separate request

In Eclipse Jetty versions 9.4.0 to 9.4.56 a buffer can be incorrectly released when confronted with a gzip error when inflating a request body. This can result in corrupted and/or inadvertent sharing of data between requests...