Striking Back at Cobalt: Using Network Traffic Metadata to Detect Cobalt Strike Masquerading Command and Control Channels

Off-the-shelf software for Command and Control is often used by attackers and legitimate pentesters looking for discretion. Among other functionalities, these tools facilitate the customization of their network traffic so it can mimic popular websites, thereby increasing their secrecy. Cobalt...

SoK: Data Reconstruction Attacks against Machine Learning Models: Definition, Metrics, and Benchmark

Data reconstruction attacks, which aim to recover the training dataset of a target model with limited access, have gained increasing attention in recent years. However, there is currently no consensus on a formal definition of data reconstruction attacks or appropriate evaluation metrics for...

Data-Driven Understanding of Security Issue Reporting in GitHub Repositories of Open Source Npm Packages

The npm Node Package Manager ecosystem is the most important package manager for JavaScript development with millions of users. Consequently, a plethora of earlier work investigated how vulnerability reporting, patch propagation, and in general detection as well as resolution of security issues i...

Network Threat Detection: Addressing Class Imbalanced Data with Deep Forest

With the rapid expansion of Internet of Things IoT networks, detecting malicious traffic in real-time has become a critical cybersecurity challenge. This research addresses the detection challenges by presenting a comprehensive empirical analysis of machine learning techniques for malware detecti...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 7.02 : openssh Vulnerability (NS-SA-2025-0089)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 7.02, has openssh packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a...

NanoZone: Scalable, Efficient, and Secure Memory Protection for Arm CCA

Arm Confidential Computing Architecture CCA currently isolates at the granularity of an entire Confidential Virtual Machine CVM, leaving intra-VM bugs such as Heartbleed unmitigated. The state-of-the-art narrows this to the process level, yet still cannot stop attacks that pivot within the same...

Ai-Driven Vulnerability Analysis in Smart Contracts: Trends, Challenges and Future Directions

Smart contracts, integral to blockchain ecosystems, enable decentralized applications to execute predefined operations without intermediaries. Their ability to enforce trustless interactions has made them a core component of platforms such as Ethereum. Vulnerabilities such as numerical overflows,...

CVE-2025-20163

A vulnerability in the SSH implementation of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller NDFC could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate Cisco NDFC-managed devices. This vulnerability is due to insufficient SSH host key validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by...

Cyber Security of Sensor Systems for State Sequence Estimation: an AI Approach

Sensor systems are extremely popular today and vulnerable to sensor data attacks. Due to possible devastating consequences, counteracting sensor data attacks is an extremely important topic, which has not seen sufficient study. This paper develops the first methods that accurately...

QualitEye: Public and Privacy-Preserving Gaze Data Quality Verification

Gaze-based applications are increasingly advancing with the availability of large datasets but ensuring data quality presents a substantial challenge when collecting data at scale. It further requires different parties to collaborate, therefore, privacy concerns arise. We propose QualitEye--the...

Popular Chrome Extensions Leak API Keys, User Data via HTTP and Hard-Coded Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged several popular Google Chrome extensions that have been found to transmit data in HTTP and hard-code secrets in their code, exposing users to privacy and security risks. "Several widely used extensions ... unintentionally transmit sensitive data over simple...

CVE-2024-54189

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 build 55740. When a snapshot of a virtual machine is taken, a root service writes to a file owned by a normal user. By using a hard link, an attacker can write to an arbitrary fil...

CVE-2024-53010

Memory corruption may occur while attaching VM when the HLOS retains access to VM...

AlmaLinux 9 : openssh (ALSA-2025:6993)

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2025:6993 advisory. openssh: Machine-in-the-middle attack if VerifyHostKeyDNS is enabled CVE-2025-26465 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLin...

RHEL 9 : gvisor-tap-vsock (RHSA-2025:8601)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:8601 advisory. A replacement for libslirp and VPNKit, written in pure Go. It is based on the network stack of gVisor and is used to provide networking for...

RHEL 9 : openssh (RHSA-2025:3837)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:3837 advisory. OpenSSH is an SSH protocol implementation supported by a number of Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems. It includes the core files necessary f...

CVE-2025-20163

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) is affected by an SSH host key validation issue that enables unauthenticated, remote MITM-style impersonation of NDFC-managed devices, potentially allowing credential interception. Root cause: insufficient SSH host key validation in NDFC’s SSH implem...

CVE-2025-20163 Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller SSH Host Key Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the SSH implementation of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller NDFC could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate Cisco NDFC-managed devices. This vulnerability is due to insufficient SSH host key validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by...

CVE-2025-20163 Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller SSH Host Key Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the SSH implementation of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller NDFC could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate Cisco NDFC-managed devices. This vulnerability is due to insufficient SSH host key validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by...

CVE-2025-20163: Key Exchange without Entity Authentication

A vulnerability in the SSH implementation of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller NDFC could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate Cisco NDFC-managed devices. This vulnerability is due to insufficient SSH host key validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by...