Fake CAPTCHA scam turns a quick click into a costly phone bill

Researchers have documented a long‑running campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA pages to trick mobile users into sending dozens of international SMS messages in the background. If you’ve spent any time on today’s web, CAPTCHAs may seem like background noise: click a few traffic lights, prove you’re...

Fake CAPTCHA IRSF Scam and 120 Keitaro Campaigns Drive Global SMS, Crypto Fraud

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a telecommunications fraud campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA verification tricks to dupe unsuspecting users into sending international text messages that incur charges on their mobile bills, generating illicit revenue for the threat actors who lea...

RHEL 8 : developer_environment (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - Developer environment: Homoglyph characters can lead to trojan source attack CVE-2021-42694 - An issue wa...

GitLab 0.0 < 14.2.6 / 14.3 < 14.3.4 / 14.4 < 14.4.1 (CVE-2021-42574)

The version of GitLab installed on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability, as follows: - An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering of characters via control sequences, which can be used to craft sourc...

Rocky Linux 8 : binutils (RLSA-2021:4595)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4595 advisory. - DISPUTED An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering of characters via...

Rocky Linux 8 : gcc-toolset-11-gcc (RLSA-2021:4586)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4586 advisory. - DISPUTED An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering of characters via...

Rocky Linux 8 : gcc-toolset-10-gcc (RLSA-2021:4585)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4585 advisory. - DISPUTED An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering of characters via...

Rocky Linux 8 : gcc (RLSA-2021:4587)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2021:4587 advisory. - DISPUTED An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering of characters via...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-2207)

According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : Assertion fail in the displaydebugnames function in binutils/dwarf.c may lead to program crash and denial of service.CVE-2022-381...

Amazon Linux 2023 : cpp, gcc, gcc-c++ (ALAS2023-2023-030)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-030 advisory. A flaw was found in the way Unicode standards are implemented in the context of development environments, which have specialized requirements for rendering text. An attacker could exploit this to deceiv...

Amazon Linux 2022 : gcc (ALAS2022-2022-222)

The version of gcc installed on the remote host is prior to 11.3.1-2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-222 advisory. - An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering...

Amazon Linux 2022 : cpp, gcc, gcc-c++ (ALAS2022-2022-057)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-057 advisory. A flaw was found in the way Unicode standards are implemented in the context of development environments, which have specialized requirements for rendering text. An attacker could exploit this to deceiv...

CVE-2021-42574

An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering of characters via control sequences, which can be used to craft source code that renders different logic than the logical ordering of tokens ingested by compilers and...

CVE-2021-42694

An issue was discovered in the character definitions of the Unicode Specification through 14.0. The specification allows an adversary to produce source code identifiers such as function names using homoglyphs that render visually identical to a target identifier. Adversaries can leverage this to...

CVE-2021-42574

An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering of characters via control sequences, which can be used to craft source code that renders different logic than the logical ordering of tokens ingested by compilers and...