Facebook Bans 7 'Cyber Mercenary' Companies for Spying on 50,000 Users

Meta Platforms on Thursday revealed it took steps to deplatform seven cyber mercenaries that it said carried out "indiscriminate" targeting of journalists, dissidents, critics of authoritarian regimes, families of opposition, and human rights activists located in over 100 countries, amid mounting...

CVE-2021-43834 Incorrect Authentication in elabftw

eLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams. In versions prior to 4.2.0 there is a vulnerability which allows an attacker to authenticate as an existing user, if that user was created using a single sign-on authentication option such as LDAP or SAML. It impacts instances wher...

CVE-2021-43833

CVE-2021-43833 affects eLabFTW prior to version 4.2.0, where an authenticated user can gain access to arbitrary accounts by supplying a specially crafted email address. The issue applies to instances lacking an explicit email domain allowlist. Administrators’ and target users’ notifications are n...

A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

Posted by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit with us, and Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture SEAR group for collaborating with us on the technical analysis. The editorial opinions reflected below ar...

Apple iOS Update Fixes Cringey iPhone 13 Jailbreak Exploit

As if the Log4Shell hellscape wasn’t already driving everybody starkers, it’s time to update iOS 15.2 and a crop of other Apple iGadgets, lest your iPhone get taken over by a malicious app that executes arbitrary code with kernel privileges. To paraphrase one mobile security expert, the iOS 15.2...

meterN v1.2.3 Authenticated Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

Summary meterN is a set of PHP/JS files that make a -Home energy metering & monitoring- solution. It accept any meters like : electrical, water, gas, fuel consumption, solar, Wind energy production and so on. Sensors such as temperature or humidity are also accepted. The philosophy is: To keep it...

Improve kernel security with the new Microsoft Vulnerable and Malicious Driver Reporting Center

Windows 10 and Windows 11 have continued to raise the security bar for drivers running in the kernel. Kernel-mode driver publishers must pass the Hardware Lab Kit HLK compatibility tests, malware scanning, and prove their identity through extended validation EV certificates. This has significantl...

NSO Group spyware found on iPhones of US State Department employees

iPhones of at least nine US State Department employees are said to have been hacked using the Pegasus spyware developed by the Israeli technology company, NSO Group. Pegasus is a proprietary and sophisticated spyware capable of the remote surveillance of smartphones. The employees targeted by an...

GitHub Security Lab: [Java] CWE-400: Query to detect uncontrolled thread resource consumption

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GitHub Security Lab: [porcupiney.hairs]: [Python] Add Flask Path injection sinks

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GitHub Security Lab: ihsinme: CPP Add query for CWE-675 Duplicate Operations on Resource

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Intel Is Maintaining Legacy Technology for Security Research

Interesting: Intel’s issue reflects a wider concern: Legacy technology can introduce cybersecurity weaknesses. Tech makers constantly improve their products to take advantage of speed and power increases, but customers don’t always upgrade at the same pace. This creates a long tail of old product...

Apple Sues NSO Group

Piling more on NSO Groups legal troubles, Apple is suing it: The complaint provides new information on how NSO Group infected victims’ devices with its Pegasus spyware. To prevent further abuse and harm to its users, Apple is also seeking a permanent injunction to ban NSO Group from using any App...

GitHub Security Lab: [Python]: JWT security-related queries

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GitHub Security Lab: [Python]: CWE-079: HTTP Header injection

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GitHub Security Lab: [GO]: [CWE-090: LDAP Injection All For One]

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Kaspersky Total Security Directory Traversal Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Kaspersky Total Security. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists...

GitHub Security Lab: Yet another SSRF query for Go

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GitHub Security Lab: Yet another SSRF query for Go

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GitHub Security Lab: Yet another SSRF query for Go

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