DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they'd made with company called DSLRoot , which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the...

Malicious Package

Overview alicloud-client-sdk is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code disguised as a legitimate cloud client utility, and its content has been removed from the official package manager. Its primary purpose is to steal cloud-related secrets, such as API keys and access tokens...

CVE-2025-41702

The JWT secret key is embedded in the egOS WebGUI backend and is readable to the default user. An unauthenticated remote attacker can generate valid HS256 tokens and bypass authentication/authorization due to the use of hard-coded cryptographic key...

CVE-2025-41702 egOS WebGUI Hard-Coded JWT Secret Enables Authentication Bypass

The JWT secret key is embedded in the egOS WebGUI backend and is readable to the default user. An unauthenticated remote attacker can generate valid HS256 tokens and bypass authentication/authorization due to the use of hard-coded cryptographic key...

CVE-2025-41702

The CVE-2025-41702 entry concerns hard-coded JWT signing key in the egOS WebGUI backend, enabling an unauthenticated remote attacker to forge valid HS256 tokens and bypass authentication/authorization. Affected software includes egOS WebGUI-based gateways (examples cited: Welotec EG400Mk2/EG500Mk...

CVE-2025-41702 egOS WebGUI Hard-Coded JWT Secret Enables Authentication Bypass

The JWT secret key is embedded in the egOS WebGUI backend and is readable to the default user. An unauthenticated remote attacker can generate valid HS256 tokens and bypass authentication/authorization due to the use of hard-coded cryptographic key...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-32921

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. It does not use a constant-time algorithm for comparing certain secret strings when running under Lua 5.2 or...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-19358

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - GNOME Keyring through 3.28.2 allows local users to retrieve login credentials via a Secret Service API call and the D-Bus interface if the keyring is unlocked, ...

PT-2025-34744

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: egOS WebGUI affected versions not specified Description: The JWT secret key is embedded in the egOS WebGUI backend and is readable to the default user. An unauthenticated remote attacker can generate valid HS256 tokens and bypass...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-9847

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin. When the user does not specify a blowfishsecret key for encrypting cookies, phpMyAdmin generates one at runtime. A...

Malicious code in donuts.node (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 9bd852600a317ae1df99af9e6cede53d3f54d36b9a400ca672eff6a7146818a1 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

CVE-2025-51606

hippo4j 1.0.0 to 1.5.0, uses a hard-coded secret key in its JWT JSON Web Token creation. This allows attackers with access to the source code or compiled binary to forge valid access tokens and impersonate any user, including privileged ones such as "admin". The vulnerability poses a critical...

Malicious code in @listr1/prompt-adapter-inquirer (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 62c9103dcee0afbfa63c69bae22ac8f4e415daef3fcb2610b84d8278b1732f5d Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in @google_cloud/common (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 77d1d3e3759d05fa05f2d625c645f9ccca58c49fbedc0eb52e1ae34ca2a4d0c0 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

GHSA-48CG-9C55-J2Q7 hippo4j Includes Hard Coded Secret Key in JWT Creation

hippo4j 1.0.0 to 1.5.0, uses a hard-coded secret key in its JWT JSON Web Token creation. This allows attackers with access to the source code or compiled binary to forge valid access tokens and impersonate any user, including privileged ones such as "admin". The vulnerability poses a critical...

hippo4j Includes Hard Coded Secret Key in JWT Creation

hippo4j 1.0.0 to 1.5.0, uses a hard-coded secret key in its JWT JSON Web Token creation. This allows attackers with access to the source code or compiled binary to forge valid access tokens and impersonate any user, including privileged ones such as "admin". The vulnerability poses a critical...

CVE-2025-51606

hippo4j 1.0.0 to 1.5.0, uses a hard-coded secret key in its JWT JSON Web Token creation. This allows attackers with access to the source code or compiled binary to forge valid access tokens and impersonate any user, including privileged ones such as "admin". The vulnerability poses a critical...

Jim Sanborn Is Auctioning Off the Solution to Part Four of the Kryptos Sculpture

Well, this is interesting: The auction, which will include other items related to cryptology, will be held Nov. 20. RR Auction, the company arranging the sale, estimates a winning bid between $300,000 and $500,000. Along with the original handwritten plain text of K4 and other papers related to t...

Malicious code in amp-metrics (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware dacbeb50af065a576ade73d084e6ac504cb061d33ebdb8fe8d72839b926e9d59 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

PT-2025-34299 · Hippo4J · Hippo4J

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: hippo4j versions 1.0.0 through 1.5.0 Description: hippo4j uses a hard-coded secret key in its JWT JSON Web Token creation. This allows attackers with access to the source code or compiled binary to forge valid access tokens and impersonate an...