⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Flaws, Defender 0-Days, Router Botnets, and Supply Chain Chaos

Monday recap. Same mess, new week. A sketchy dev tool got people pwned, old bugs came back from the dead, and security products somehow needed protecting from themselves. A bunch of companies spent the week checking old boxes and forgotten servers they should've patched years ago. Good times...

GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension

GitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned version of the Nx Console Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code extension. The development comes as the Nx team revealed that the extensio...

Malicious code in litellm (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: google-open-source-security 6a89401cbf53902e8374fbf3b424a77bb5e5f8c437176232eab7c3237d10ecbe LiteLLM was compromised through trivy security scan in a GitHub workflow. Attackers uploaded malicious versions of LiteLLM to PyPI. The...

GHSA-VGR2-R5HM-F6GF `sha-rst` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

This crate was used as a dependency by finchclirust and finch-rst and contained a malware payload to exfiltrate credentials. The malicious crate had 1 version published on 2025-12-08 and had been downloaded 22 times. Other than the other crates above that were part of the attack, no other crates...

Lazarus Group Uses React-Based Admin Panel to Control Global Cyber Attacks

The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been observed leveraging a "web-based administrative platform" to oversee its command-and-control C2 infrastructure, giving the adversary the ability to centrally supervise all aspects of their campaigns. "Each C2 server hosted a...

PYSEC-2024-55

Malicious package. Exfiltrated secrets to a target server...

U.S. Federal Agencies Ordered to Hunt for Signs of Microsoft Breach and Mitigate Risks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday issued an emergency directive ED 24-02 urging federal agencies to hunt for signs of compromise and enact preventive measures following the recent compromise of Microsoft's systems that led to the theft of email...

Cloudflare Breach: Nation-State Hackers Access Source Code and Internal Docs

Cloudflare has revealed that it was the target of a likely nation-state attack in which the threat actor leveraged stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access to its Atlassian server and ultimately access some documentation and a limited amount of source code. The intrusion, which took place...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise also searched by Cozy Bear

Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE has disclosed that the state-sponsored actor known as Cozy Bear aka Midnight Blizzard, gained unauthorized access to HPE’s cloud-based email environment. This news comes only days after Microsoft broke very similar news that it got hacked by this same state sponsore...

Design/Logic Flaw

An attacker could have performed HTML template injection via Reader Mode and exfiltrated user information. This vulnerability affects Firefox for iOS 120...

CVE-2023-49061

An attacker could have performed HTML template injection via Reader Mode and exfiltrated user information. This vulnerability affects Firefox for iOS 120...

CVE-2023-23603

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: Regular expressions used to filter out forbidden properties and values from style directives in calls to console.log weren't accounting for external URLs. Data could then be potentially exfiltrated from the browser...

This Malicious App Abused Hacked Devices to Create Fake Accounts on Multiple Platforms

A malicious Android SMS application discovered on the Google Play Store has been found to stealthily harvest text messages with the goal of creating accounts on a wide range of platforms like Facebook, Google, and WhatsApp. The app, named Symoo com.vanjan.sms, had over 100,000 downloads and...

Ransomwater confusion, does the criminal know who the victim is?

When we say that attribution is always tricky, we are obviously only seeing the half of it. Apparently sometimes even the cybercriminals are not always clear on which company they breached. Clop ransomware put out a statement that they breached Thames Water when in reality their victim was South...

Hive ransomware impacts California non-profit health organisation

Ransomware authors are once again targeting health services, holding important files to ransom and impacting potentially vital services. On this occasion, the victims are a non-profit organisation assisting people with their healthcare needs in California. When Hive ransomware strikes The victim,...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected in livehelperchat/livehelperchat

Description The htmlspecialchars function does not escape special characters like single quote, and the $prefix parameter can lead to reflected XSS Proof of Concept https://demo.livehelperchat.com/siteadmin/user/avatarbuilder/1?=1640314779051&prefix=123%27;;%20alert%27xss%27;// Impact XSS can hav...

SideCopy APT: Connecting lures to victims, payloads to infrastructure

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi and the Threat Intelligence Team. Last week, Facebook announced that back in August it had taken action against a Pakistani APT group known as SideCopy. Facebook describes how the threat actors used romantic lures to compromise targets in Afghanistan. I...

CISA Provides Recommendations for Protecting Information from Ransomware-Caused Data Breaches

CISA has released the fact sheet Protecting Sensitive and Personal Information from Ransomware-Caused Data Breaches to address the increase in malicious cyber actors using ransomware to exfiltrate data and then threatening to sell or leak the exfiltrated data if the victim does not pay the ransom...

PHP Infiltrated with Backdoor Malware

The PHP project on Sunday announced that attackers were able to gain access to its main Git server, uploading two malicious commits, including a backdoor. They were discovered before they went into production. PHP is a widely used open-source scripting language often used for web development. It...

CISA Releases Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Exploitation of Accellion File Transfer Appliance

The cybersecurity authorities of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States have released Joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA21-055A: Exploitation of Accellion File Transfer Appliance. Cyber actors worldwide have exploited vulnerabilities in Accellion File Transfer...