The Enduring Danger of Russia’s Cluster Bombs in Ukraine

A brief history and the ramifications of cluster bombs, history’s most indiscriminate weapon...

Conti Leaks Reveal the Ransomware Group’s Links to Russia

Members of the Conti ransomware group may act in Russia’s interest, but their links to the FSB and Cozy Bear hackers appear ad hoc...

Undesired Behavior

Overview event-source-polyfill is an A polyfill for http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/ Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Undesired Behavior. This package geo-locates users based on their IP address and if the user is Russia-based prints a political protest message in the browser ...

Dev Sabotages Popular NPM Package to Protest Russian Invasion

The developer behind the hugely popular npm package “node-ipc” has released sabotaged versions of the library to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: a supply-chain tinkering that he’d prefer to call “protestware” as opposed to “malware.” Regardless of the peace-not-war messaging, node-ipc is no...

Popular NPM Package Updated to Wipe Russia, Belarus Systems to Protest Ukraine Invasion

In what's an act of deliberate sabotage, the developer behind the popular "node-ipc" NPM package shipped a new tampered version to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, raising concerns about security in the open-source and the software supply chain. Affecting versions 10.1.1 and 10.1.2 of the...

Malicious Package

node-ipc is a malicious package. The vulnerability exists because it contains or downloads malicious codes that targets users with IP located in Russia or Belarus, and overwrites their files with a heart emoji...

CVE-2022-23812

This affects the package node-ipc from 10.1.1 and before 10.1.3. This package contains malicious code, that targets users with IP located in Russia or Belarus, and overwrites their files with a heart emoji. Note: from versions 11.0.0 onwards, instead of having malicious code directly in the sourc...

CVE-2022-23812

This affects the package node-ipc from 10.1.1 and before 10.1.3. This package contains malicious code, that targets users with IP located in Russia or Belarus, and overwrites their files with a heart emoji. Note: from versions 11.0.0 onwards, instead of having malicious code directly in the sourc...

Design/Logic Flaw

This affects the package node-ipc from 10.1.1 and before 10.1.3. This package contains malicious code, that targets users with IP located in Russia or Belarus, and overwrites their files with a heart emoji. Note: from versions 11.0.0 onwards, instead of having malicious code directly in the sourc...

CVE-2022-23812

The CVE-2022-23812 vulnerability affects the node-ipc package (versions 10.1.1 and 10.1.2). Embedded malicious code is triggered based on geolocation (Russia/Belarus) and overwrites user files with a heart emoji; the maintainer removed this code in version 10.1.3. Starting with 11.0.0, node-ipc i...

CVE-2022-23812 Malicious Package

This affects the package node-ipc from 10.1.1 and before 10.1.3. This package contains malicious code, that targets users with IP located in Russia or Belarus, and overwrites their files with a heart emoji. Note: from versions 11.0.0 onwards, instead of having malicious code directly in the sourc...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview node-ipc is an A nodejs module for local and remote Inter Process Communication IPC, Neural Networking, and able to facilitate machine learning. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code that targets users with IP located in Russia or Belarus, and...

German Government Warns Against Using Russia's Kaspersky Antivirus Software

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky on Tuesday responded to an advisory released by Germany's Federal Office of Information Security BSI against using the company's security solutions in the country over "doubts about the reliability of the manufacturer." Calling that the decision was made on...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2022-23812

This affects the package node-ipc from 10.1.1 and before 10.1.3. This package contains malicious code, that targets users with IP located in Russia or Belarus, and overwrites their files with a heart emoji. Note: from versions 11.0.0 onwards, instead of having malicious code directly in the...

node-ipc 安全漏洞

node-ipc is a node.js module from the individual developer Brandon Nozaki Miller in the United States. It is used for local and remote inter-process communication and fully supports Linux, Mac and Windows. A security vulnerability exists in node-ipc version 10.1.1 up to and including 10.1.3. The...

DDoS barrage against Israel described as the “largest ever” cyberattack its faced

Several government websites in Israel—those using the .gov.il domain—were inaccessible after a distributed denial of service DDoS attack hit Israels telecommunication provider, Cellcom. NetBlocks, a network disruption watchdog, initially detected "a significant disruption" aimed at the provider,...

Russia Wants to Label Meta an ‘Extremist Organization’

Plus: A satellite hack, ransomware extradition, and more of the week’s top security news...

Russia Issues Its Own TLS Certs

Russia is offering its own trusted Transport Layer Security TLS certificate authority CA to replace certificates that need to be renewed by foreign countries. As it is, a pile of sanctions imposed in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is gumming up its citizen’s access to websites. As it is...

Russian Pushing New State-run TLS Certificate Authority to Deal With Sanctions

The Russian government has established its own TLS certificate authority CA to address issues with accessing websites that have arisen in the wake of sanctions imposed by the west following the country's unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine. According to a message posted on the Gosuslugi publi...

Malware Posing as Russia DDoS Tool Bites Pro-Ukraine Hackers

Looking to cyber-hassle Russia, Ukrainian sympathizers? Be careful — malware is making the rounds, disguised as a pro-Ukraine cyber-tool that will turn around and bite you instead, researchers are warning. In a Wednesday threat advisory, Cisco Talos described a campaign it’s observed in which a...