Instagram Slow to Tackle Bots Targeting Iranian Women’s Groups

Despite alerting Meta months ago, feminist groups say tens of thousands of fake accounts continue to bombard them on the platform...

Wallarm extends AWS API security with the official Terraform module

Wallarm API Security solution is now available in AWS as an official Terraform module, with a full feature set including autoscaling groups, API Gateway connector, mirroring, and agentless out-of-band deployments. To address modern cloud-native threats, API security vendor Wallarm released extend...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 11-17 July 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 580 37 2 World-wide 11 61 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The second week of July 2022 witnessed the discovery of 580 vulnerabilities out ...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2022-2026)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel, where a use-after-frees in nouveau's postclose handler could happen if removing device...

State-Backed Hackers Targeting Journalists in Widespread Espionage Campaigns

Nation-state hacking groups aligned with China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey have been targeting journalists to conduct espionage and spread malware as part of a series of campaigns since early 2021. "Most commonly, phishing attacks targeting journalists are used for espionage or to gain key...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5515-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5515-1 advisory. Eric Biederman discovered that the cgroup process migration implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform permission checks correctly in...

Apple Lockdown Mode helps protect users from spyware

Apple has announced a new feature of iOS 16 called Lockdown Mode. This new feature is designed to provide a safer environment on iOS for people at high risk of what Apple refers to as "mercenary spyware." This includes people like journalists and human rights advocates, who are often targeted by...

The Danger of License Plate Readers in Post-Roe America

Known as ALPRs, this surveillance tech is pervasive across the US—and could soon be used by police and anti-abortion groups alike...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5505-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5505-1 advisory. Norbert Slusarek discovered a race condition in the CAN BCM networking protocol of the Linux kernel leading to multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities. A...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 27 June – 03 July 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 436 2 2 55 15 30 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The last week of June 2022 witnessed the discovery of 436 vulnerabilities out of which 2...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2228

Information exposure in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 12.0 prior to 14.10.5, 15.0 prior to 15.0.4, and 15.1 prior to 15.1.1 allows an attacker with the appropriate access tokens to obtain CI variables in a group with using IP-based access restrictions even if the GitLab Runner is calling...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5500-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5500-1 advisory. Eric Biederman discovered that the cgroup process migration implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform permission checks correctly in some...

Google Blocks Dozens of Malicious Domains Operated by Hack-for-Hire Groups

Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG on Thursday disclosed it had acted to block as many as 36 malicious domains operated by hack-for-hire groups from India, Russia, and the U.A.E. In a manner analogous to the surveillanceware ecosystem, hack-for-hire firms equip their clients with capabilities to...

Ex-Canadian Government Employee Pleads Guilty Over NetWalker Ransomware Attacks

A former Canadian government employee this week agreed to plead guilty in the U.S. to charges related to his involvement with the NetWalker ransomware syndicate. Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, who was extradited to the U.S. on March 10, 2022, is accused of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and wi...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 20 June – 26 June 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 413 14 4 121 19 33 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The last week of June 2022 witnessed the discovery of 413 vulnerabilities out of which ...

CVE-2022-31096

Discourse (open source discussion platform) has a vulnerability where a logged-in user can redeem an invite with an email that doesn’t match the invite or violates the invite’s email domain restriction, potentially leading to viewing content restricted to certain groups. The issue is worsened whe...

CVE-2022-31096 Invites restricted to an email or invite links restricted to an email domain may be bypassed by a under certain conditions in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Under certain conditions, a logged in user can redeem an invite with an email that either doesn't match the invite's email or does not adhere to the email domain restriction of an invite link. The impact of this flaw is aggravated when the invite h...

PT-2022-20524 · Discourse · Discourse

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Discourse affected versions not specified Description: The issue allows a logged-in user to redeem an invite with an email that either doesn't match the invite's email or does not adhere to the email domain restriction of an invite link. This...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2022-0241)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Use-After-Free

chromium is vulnerable to use-after-free. The vulnerability exists in in Interest groups which allows an attacker to cause a memory corruption and there by an application crash...