Malicious code in loquru (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 a98209ec0f506986521ebd7b24de4f266f6bb61aba50f2dc511c391f1037848b It's a clone of "loguru" package which on import loads a second-stage script from loguru.guru. This makes a few checks and downloads the next stage, which is a...

SAP NetWeaver Vulnerability Used in Auto-Color Malware Attack on US Firm

Darktrace uncovers the first exploit of a critical SAP NetWeaver vulnerability CVE-2025-31324 to deploy Auto-Color backdoor malware. Learn how this evasive Linux RAT targets systems for remote code execution and how AI-powered defence thwarts multi-stage attacks...

QSAF: a Novel Mitigation Framework for Cognitive Degradation in Agentic AI

We introduce Cognitive Degradation as a novel vulnerability class in agentic AI systems. Unlike traditional adversarial external threats such as prompt injection, these failures originate internally, arising from memory starvation, planner recursion, context flooding, and output suppression. Thes...

Multi-Stage Prompt Inference Attacks on Enterprise LLM Systems

Large Language Models LLMs deployed in enterprise settings e.g., as Microsoft 365 Copilot face novel security challenges. One critical threat is prompt inference attacks: adversaries chain together seemingly benign prompts to gradually extract confidential data. In this paper, we present a...

Embedded Malicious Package

Overview @toptal/picasso-provider is a malicious package. through the preinstall and postinstall scripts. A potentially compromised account operating in Toptal's GitHub organization exposed an AWS token, leading to the account being taken over. This allowed the attackers to expose private...

Scattered Spider: Rapid7 Insights, Observations, and Recommendations

Overview of Scattered Spider and recent activity Scattered Spider also tracked as UNC3944, Scatter Swine, Muddled Libra, among other aliases is a financially motivated cybercriminal group active since at least May 2022. The group is notorious for targeting large enterprises — especially...

Favicon Trojans: Executable Steganography Via Ico Alpha Channel Exploitation

This paper presents a novel method of executable steganography using the alpha transparency layer of ICO image files to embed and deliver self-decompressing JavaScript payloads within web browsers. By targeting the least significant bit LSB of non-transparent alpha layer image values, the propose...

Entangled Threats: a Unified Kill Chain Model for Quantum Machine Learning Security

Quantum Machine Learning QML systems inherit vulnerabilities from classical machine learning while introducing new attack surfaces rooted in the physical and algorithmic layers of quantum computing. Despite a growing body of research on individual attack vectors - ranging from adversarial poisoni...

CVE-2025-6713

An unauthorized user may leverage a specially crafted aggregation pipeline to access data without proper authorization due to improper handling of the $mergeCursors stage in MongoDB Server. This may lead to access to data without further authorisation. This issue affects MongoDB Server MongoDB...

CVE-2025-6713 MongoDB Server may be susceptible to privilege escalation due to $mergeCursors stage

An unauthorized user may leverage a specially crafted aggregation pipeline to access data without proper authorization due to improper handling of the $mergeCursors stage in MongoDB Server. This may lead to access to data without further authorisation. This issue affects MongoDB Server MongoDB...

MongoDB Server may be susceptible to privilege escalation due to $mergeCursors stage

An unauthorized user may leverage a specially crafted aggregation pipeline to access data without proper authorization due to improper handling of the $mergeCursors stage in MongoDB Server. This may lead to access to data without further authorisation. This issue affects MongoDB Server MongoDB...

Hunting in the Dark: Metrics for Early Stage Traffic Discovery

Threat hunting is an operational security process where an expert analyzes traffic, applying knowledge and lightweight tools on unlabeled data in order to identify and classify previously unknown phenomena. In this paper, we examine threat hunting metrics and practice by studying the detection of...

Phantom Subgroup Poisoning: Stealth Attacks on Federated Recommender Systems

Federated recommender systems FedRec have emerged as a promising solution for delivering personalized recommendations while safeguarding user privacy. However, recent studies have demonstrated their vulnerability to poisoning attacks. Existing attacks typically target the entire user group, which...

📄 AnyCommand 1.2.7 Remote Code Execution

AnyCommand version 1.2.7 contains critical vulnerabilities enabling unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. The exploit bypasses weak 6-digit PIN authentication through bruteforcing, then abuses the command interface to simulate keystrokes for command execution and payload...

MAL-2025-191748 Malicious code in hancsv (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 bb3fdca931bea8323cd7a8c2578f6d0c0594b3ea1b30df1819830168fe90983b Importing the module triggers downloading and executing Powershell script. The script collects information about the host including e.g. startup applications a...

Malicious code in hancsv (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 bb3fdca931bea8323cd7a8c2578f6d0c0594b3ea1b30df1819830168fe90983b Importing the module triggers downloading and executing Powershell script. The script collects information about the host including e.g. startup applications a...

ARMOR: Robust Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for UAVs under Physical Attacks

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs depend on onboard sensors for perception, navigation, and control. However, these sensors are susceptible to physical attacks, such as GPS spoofing, that can corrupt state estimates and lead to unsafe behavior. While reinforcement learning RL offers adaptive control...

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)

Overview apache-airflow-providers-snowflake is a Provider package apache-airflow-providers-snowflake for Apache Airflow Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane Special Element Injection in the...

Water Curse Employs 76 GitHub Accounts to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware Campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a previously unknown threat actor known as Water Curse that relies on weaponized GitHub repositories to deliver multi-stage malware. "The malware enables data exfiltration including credentials, browser data, and session tokens, remote access, and long-term...

Tech-ASan: Two-Stage Check for Address Sanitizer

Address Sanitizer ASan is a sharp weapon for detecting memory safety violations, including temporal and spatial errors hidden in C/C++ programs during execution. However, ASan incurs significant runtime overhead, which limits its efficiency in testing large software. The overhead mainly comes fro...