Guardians of the Regime: When and Why Autocrats Create Secret Police

Autocrats use secret police to stay in power, as these organizations deter and suppress opposition to their rule. Existing research shows that secret police are very good at this but, surprisingly, also that they are not as ubiquitous in autocracies as one may assume, existing in less than 50% of...

CVE-2025-26521

When an Apache CloudStack user-account creates a CKS-based Kubernetes cluster in a project, the API key and the secret key of the 'kubeadmin' user of the caller account are used to create the secret config in the CKS-based Kubernetes cluster. A member of the project who can access the CKS-based...

CVE-2025-47849 Apache CloudStack: Insecure access of user's API/Secret Keys in the same domain

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Apache CloudStack versions 4.10.0.0 through 4.20.0.0 where a malicious Domain Admin user in the ROOT domain can get the API key and secret key of user-accounts of Admin role type in the same domain. This operation is not appropriately restricted and...

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine

Overview nautobot is a Source of truth and network automation platform. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine due to the misconfiguration of the Jinja2 templating feature. An attacker can expose secret values and...

PYSEC-2025-74

Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform. All users of Nautobot versions prior to 2.4.10 or prior to 1.6.32 are potentially affected. Due to insufficient security configuration of the Jinja2 templating feature used in computed fields, custom links, etc. in Nautobot, a...

Lean and Mean: How We Fine-Tuned a Small Language Model for Secret Detection in Code

Building an efficient small language model for cybersecurity, from data prep to deployment...

CLSA-2025-1749570465 pam: Fix of 2 CVEs

CVE-2024-10041: fix possibility of leakage of secret information stored in memory - CVE-2024-22365: fix potential DoS via mkfifo because the openat call lacks ODIRECTORY...

Security update for docker-compose

This update for docker-compose fixes the following issues: Update to version 2.33.1: Improvements Add support for gwpriority, enableipv4 requires docker v28.0 by @thaJeztah in 12570 Fixes Run watch standalone if menu fails to start by @ndeloof in 12536 Report error using non-file secret|config wi...

SUSE-SU-2025:20385-1 Security update for docker-compose

This update for docker-compose fixes the following issues: Update to version 2.33.1: Improvements - Add support for gwpriority, enableipv4 requires docker v28.0 by @thaJeztah in 12570 Fixes - Run watch standalone if menu fails to start by @ndeloof in 12536 - Report error using non-file...

crypto/internal/nistec: golang: Timing sidechannel for P-256 on ppc64le in crypto/internal/nistec

A flaw was found in the Golang crypto/internal/nistec package. Due to the usage of a variable time instruction in the assembly implementation of an internal function, a small number of bits of secret scalars are leaked on the ppc64le architecture. Considering how this function is used, this leaka...

Malicious code in talkingagent (npm)

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Malicious code in @mediawave/lib (npm)

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Malicious code in ve-cores (npm)

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MAL-2025-4796 Malicious code in @loybung/dous (npm)

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Malicious code in @loybung/hyper-client (npm)

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MAL-2025-4807 Malicious code in @loybung/unicode-fonts (npm)

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MAL-2025-4804 Malicious code in @loybung/systeminfo (npm)

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Malicious code in @loybung/textfont (npm)

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Malicious code in opensearch-with-grafana-lambdas (npm)

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MAL-2025-4913 Malicious code in zlib1g-dev (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware fa6efdb438d569565922df7e3f3cd142e51dd3fb1e1fe0467a71399e26930faf Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...