rsync: --safe-links option bypass leads to path traversal

A flaw was found in rsync. When using the --safe-links option, the rsync client fails to properly verify if a symbolic link destination sent from the server contains another symbolic link within it. This results in a path traversal vulnerability, which may lead to arbitrary file write outside the...

Desert Dexter Targets 900 Victims Using Facebook Ads and Telegram Malware Links

The Middle East and North Africa have become the target of a new campaign that delivers a modified version of a known malware called AsyncRAT since September 2024. "The campaign, which leverages social media to distribute malware, is tied to the region's current geopolitical climate," Positive...

US Charges 12 in Chinese Hacker Network, Offers $10M Reward

U.S. indicts 12 in Chinese Hacker-for-Hire Network tied to cyber attacks on governments & media. DOJ offers $10M reward for info on key suspects...

Medusa Ransomware Hits 40+ Victims in 2025, Demands $100K–$15M Ransom

The threat actors behind the Medusa ransomware have claimed nearly 400 victims since it first emerged in January 2023, with the financially motivated attacks witnessing a 42% increase between 2023 and 2024. In the first two months of 2025 alone, the group has claimed over 40 attacks, according to...

RUSTSEC-2025-0009 Some AES functions may panic when overflow checking is enabled.

ring::aead::quic::HeaderProtectionKey::newmask may panic when overflow checking is enabled. In the QUIC protocol, an attacker can induce this panic by sending a specially-crafted packet. Even unintentionally it is likely to occur in 1 out of every 232 packets sent and/or received. On 64-bit targe...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-57886

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/core: fix new damontarget objects leaks on damoncommittargets Patch series...

Dark Caracal Uses Poco RAT to Target Spanish-Speaking Enterprises in Latin America

The threat actor known as Dark Caracal has been attributed to a campaign that deployed a remote access trojan called Poco RAT in attacks targeting Spanish-speaking targets in Latin America in 2024. The findings come from Russian cybersecurity company Positive Technologies, which described the...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-23639

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - crossbeam-utils provides atomics, synchronization primitives, scoped threads, and other utilities for concurrent programming in Rust. crossbeam-utils prior to...

New Backdoor Auto-color Linux Targets Systems in US and Asia

Auto-color: New Linux backdoor malware targeting the US and Asia. Learn about its advanced evasion, persistence, and detection…...

CVE-2025-0514 Executable hyperlink Windows path targets executed unconditionally on activation

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows Windows Executable hyperlink targets to be executed unconditionally on activation.This issue affects LibreOffice: from 24.8 before 24.8.5...

CVE-2025-0514: Improper Input Validation

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in The Document Foundation LibreOffice allows Windows Executable hyperlink targets to be executed unconditionally on activation.This issue affects LibreOffice: from 24.8 before 24.8.5...

Vyper has a double eval in For List Iter

Multiple evaluation of a single expression is possible in the iterator target of a for loop. While the iterator expression cannot produce multiple writes, it can consume side effects produced in the loop body e.g. read a storage variable updated in the loop body and thus lead to unexpected progra...

Trojanized Game Installers Deploy Cryptocurrency Miner in Large-Scale StaryDobry Attack

Users who are on the lookout for popular games were lured into downloading trojanized installers that led to the deployment of a cryptocurrency miner on compromised Windows hosts. The large-scale activity has been codenamed StaryDobry by Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which first detect...

DragonRank Exploits IIS Servers with BadIIS Malware for SEO Fraud and Gambling Redirects

Threat actors have been observed targeting Internet Information Services IIS servers in Asia as part of a search engine optimization SEO manipulation campaign designed to install BadIIS malware. "It is likely that the campaign is financially motivated since redirecting users to illegal gambling...

Fake Google Chrome Sites Distribute ValleyRAT Malware via DLL Hijacking

Bogus websites advertising Google Chrome have been used to distribute malicious installers for a remote access trojan called ValleyRAT. The malware, first detected in 2023, is attributed to a threat actor tracked as Silver Fox, with prior attack campaigns primarily targeting Chinese-speaking...

North Korean Hackers Deploy FERRET Malware via Fake Job Interviews on macOS

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed delivering a collection of Apple macOS malware strains dubbed FERRET as part of a supposed job interview process. "Targets are typically asked to communicate with an interviewer through a link that throws a...

WhatsApp says Paragon is spying on specific users

WhatsApp has accused the professional spyware company Paragon of spying on a select group of users. WhatsApp, the Meta-owned, end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, said it has reliable information that nearly 100 journalists and other “members of civil society” were targets of a spyware campai...

CVE-2025-21673

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix double free of TCPServerInfo::hostname When shutting down the server in cifsputtcpsession, cifsd thread might be reconnecting to multiple DFS targets before it realizes it should exit the loop, so @server-hostnam...

CVE-2025-21673

CVE-2025-21673 affects the Linux kernel SMB CIFS client. The issue is a double free of TCP_Server_Info::hostname in cifs_put_tcp_session() when a cifsd thread reconnects to multiple DFS targets during shutdown. This can allow a memory release/use-after-free scenario leading to a crash (reported a...

CVE-2024-9310

By utilizing software-defined radios and a custom low-latency processing pipeline, RF signals with spoofed location data can be transmitted to aircraft targets. This can lead to the appearance of fake aircraft on displays and potentially trigger undesired Resolution Advisories RAs...