PT-2025-37214

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The Linux kernel contains a flaw related to file descriptor table allocations. When sysctl nr open is set to a very high value, processes attempting to use file descriptors near the...

Counterfactual Influence As a Distributional Quantity

Machine learning models are known to memorize samples from their training data, raising concerns around privacy and generalization. Counterfactual self-influence is a popular metric to study memorization, quantifying how the model's prediction for a sample changes depending on the sample's...

RepuNet: a Reputation System for Mitigating Malicious Clients in DFL

Decentralized Federated Learning DFL enables nodes to collaboratively train models without a central server, introducing new vulnerabilities since each node independently selects peers for model aggregation. Malicious nodes may exploit this autonomy by sending corrupted models model poisoning,...

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks

Website Fingerprinting WF is an effective tool for regulating and governing the dark web. However, its performance can be significantly degraded by backdoor poisoning attacks in practical deployments. This paper aims to address the problem of hidden backdoor poisoning attacks faced by Website...

IF-GUIDE: Influence Function-Guided Detoxification of LLMs

We study how training data contributes to the emergence of toxic behaviors in large-language models. Most prior work on reducing model toxicity adopts $reactive$ approaches, such as fine-tuning pre-trained and potentially toxic models to align them with human values. In contrast, we propose a...

Report on the Malicious Uses of AI

OpenAI just published its annual report on malicious uses of AI. By using AI as a force multiplier for our expert investigative teams, in the three months since our last report we’ve been able to detect, disrupt and expose abusive activity including social engineering, cyber espionage, deceptive...

Meta Disrupts Influence Ops Targeting Romania, Azerbaijan, and Taiwan with Fake Personas

Meta on Thursday revealed that it disrupted three covert influence operations originating from Iran, China, and Romania during the first quarter of 2025. "We detected and removed these campaigns before they were able to build authentic audiences on our apps," the social media giant said in its...

CVE-2021-45908

An issue was discovered in gif2apng 1.9. There is a stack-based buffer overflow involving a while loop. An attacker has little influence over the data written to the stack, making it unlikely that the flow of control can be subverted...

ChestyBot: Detecting and Disrupting Chinese Communist Party Influence Stratagems

Foreign information operations conducted by Russian and Chinese actors exploit the United States' permissive information environment. These campaigns threaten democratic institutions and the broader Westphalian model. Yet, existing detection and mitigation strategies often fail to identify active...

Claude AI Exploited to Operate 100+ Fake Political Personas in Global Influence Campaign

Artificial intelligence AI company Anthropic has revealed that unknown threat actors leveraged its Claude chatbot for an "influence-as-a-service" operation to engage with authentic accounts across Facebook and X. The sophisticated activity, branded as financially-motivated, is said to have used i...

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...

Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort ...

Gcore DDoS Radar Reveals 56% YoY Increase in DDoS Attacks

Gcore's latest DDoS Radar report analyzes attack data from Q3–Q4 2024, revealing a 56% YoY rise in the total number of DDoS attacks with the largest attack peaking at a record 2 Tbps. The financial services sector saw the most dramatic increase, with a 117% rise in attacks, while gaming remained...

CVE-2024-13248

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Drupal Private content allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Private content: from 0.0.0 before 2.1.0...

CVE-2024-13249 Node Access Rebuild Progressive - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-013

Improper Ownership Management vulnerability in Drupal Node Access Rebuild Progressive allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Node Access Rebuild Progressive: from 7.X-1.0 before 7.X-1.2...

CVE-2024-13249

CVE-2024-13249 affects Drupal’s Node Access Rebuild Progressive module (versions 7.X-1.0 through 7.X-1.2). The root cause is an improper ownership management vulnerability that enables target influence via framing, effectively an access-bypass risk. Documents label this as a less critical issue (...

CVE-2024-13248 Private content - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-012

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Drupal Private content allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Private content: from 0.0.0 before 2.1.0...

CVE-2024-13246 Node Access Rebuild Progressive - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-010

Improper Ownership Management vulnerability in Drupal Node Access Rebuild Progressive allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Node Access Rebuild Progressive: from 0.0.0 before 2.0.2...

CVE-2024-13246 Node Access Rebuild Progressive - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2024-010

Improper Ownership Management vulnerability in Drupal Node Access Rebuild Progressive allows Target Influence via Framing.This issue affects Node Access Rebuild Progressive: from 0.0.0 before 2.0.2...

Romania Cancels Presidential Election Results After Alleged Russian Meddling on TikTok

In a historic decision, Romania's constitutional court has annulled the result of the first round of voting in the presidential election amid allegations of Russian interference. As a result, the second round vote, which was scheduled for December 8, 2024, will no longer take place. Călin...