MAL-2025-20056 Malicious code in exosphere-figures-deimos-pavo (npm)

The package exosphere-figures-deimos-pavo was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-15703 Malicious code in biomimicry-dorado-cosmology-figures (npm)

The package biomimicry-dorado-cosmology-figures was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-20363 Malicious code in fermiparadox-promise-figures-hawkingradiation (npm)

The package fermiparadox-promise-figures-hawkingradiation was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-20524 Malicious code in figures-jest-astro-draco (npm)

The package figures-jest-astro-draco was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-32106 Malicious code in request-figures-winston-biogeochemistry (npm)

The package request-figures-winston-biogeochemistry was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-30859 Malicious code in puppeteer-quantumfoam-fork-figures (npm)

The package puppeteer-quantumfoam-fork-figures was found to contain malicious code...

[SECURITY] Fedora 41 Update: transfig-3.2.9a^20250619.ee3f4d8-1.fc41

The transfig utility creates a makefile which translates FIG created by xfig or PIC figures into a specified LaTeX graphics language for example, PostScriptTM. Transfig is used to create TeX documents which are portable i.e., they can be printed in a wide variety of environments. Install transfig...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: transfig-3.2.9a^20250619.ee3f4d8-2.fc42

The transfig utility creates a makefile which translates FIG created by xfig or PIC figures into a specified LaTeX graphics language for example, PostScriptTM. Transfig is used to create TeX documents which are portable i.e., they can be printed in a wide variety of environments. Install transfig...

Centralized Trust in Decentralized Systems: Unveiling Hidden Contradictions in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Blockchain technology promises to democratize finance and promote social equity through decentralization, but questions remain about whether current implementations advance or hinder these goals. Through a mixed-methods study combining semi-structured interviews with 13 diverse blockchain...

The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2024

From Elon Musk and Donald Trump to state-sponsored hackers and crypto scammers, this was the year the online agents of chaos gained ground...

Meta Exposes Iranian Hacker Group Targeting Global Political Figures on WhatsApp

Meta Platforms on Friday became the latest company after Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI to expose the activities of an Iranian state-sponsored threat actor, who it said used a set of WhatsApp accounts that attempted to target individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, the U.K., and the U.S. The...

EU Data Protection Watchdog Calls for Ban on Pegasus-like Commercial Spyware

The European Union's data protection authority on Tuesday called for a ban on the development and the use of Pegasus-like commercial spyware in the region, stating that the technology's "unprecedented level of intrusiveness" could endanger users' right to privacy. "Pegasus constitutes a paradigm...

Cyberattacks See Fundamental Changes, A Year into COVID-19

COVID-19-related phishing emails, brute-force attacks on remote workers, and a focus on exploiting or abusing collaboration platforms are the hallmarks of cybercriminal enterprise as the coronavirus marks its first anniversary of going global. A year after the COVID-19 crisis was officially...

MoleRats APT Returns with Espionage Play Using Facebook, Dropbox

The MoleRats advanced persistent threat APT has developed two new backdoors, both of which allow the attackers to execute arbitrary code and exfiltrate sensitive data, researchers said. They were discovered as part of a recent campaign that uses Dropbox, Facebook, Google Docs and Simplenote for...

CVE-2020-6298

SAP Banking Services Generic Market Data, versions - 400, 450, 500, allows an unauthorized user to display protected Business Partner Generic Market Data GMD and change related GMD key figure values, due to Missing Authorization Check...

Charming Kitten Uses Fake Interview Requests to Target Public Figures

The Iran-based hacking group Charming Kitten has resurfaced with a new campaign that uses fake interviews to target public figures to launch phishing attacks and steal victims’ email-account information. In a report released Wednesday, security researchers at Certfa Lab say they discovered the...

Trump, Putin and Politics Name-Dropped to Peddle Malware

With the U.S. presidential elections looming, bad actors are tapping into the political craze with several malware distribution campaigns, using high-profile political names to tap into victims’ emotions and convince them to click on malicious links. Researchers have uncovered hundreds of...

IT threat evolution Q2 2019. Statistics

These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky solutions blocked 717,057,912 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across t...

20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany's Biggest Data Leak

German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last month. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed by the police, was arrested after police...

20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany's Biggest Data Leak

German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last month. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed by the police, was arrested after police...