user-security-stories

User Security Stories This repository contains a collection of user security stories and acceptance criteria. User Security Stories Security Acceptance Criteria Please fork and contribute additional security stories and acceptance criteria that you think will benefit the community. History The...

deception-as-detection

Deception-as-Detection Deception based detection techniques mapped to the MITRE’s Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT&CK™: Windows Technique Matrix Linux Technique Matrix Mac Technique Matrix 📔 Deception Stories A sample deception story is created as a reference. More...

Malware in alb-um-availa-ble-zip-mp3-file-43838-stories-of-the-years-sslgg-bqfcko

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outsid...

CVE-2026-86178

Pixelfed through 0.12.9 fails to validate follower status in StoryComposeController react and comment endpoints, allowing authenticated users to access follower-only stories. Attackers can enumerate sequential story IDs and submit reactions or comments to retrieve story media URLs and author...

CVE-2026-86178 Pixelfed through 0.12.9 Unauthorized Story Access via API

Pixelfed through 0.12.9 fails to validate follower status in StoryComposeController react and comment endpoints, allowing authenticated users to access follower-only stories. Attackers can enumerate sequential story IDs and submit reactions or comments to retrieve story media URLs and author...

CVE-2026-86178

Pixelfed through 0.12.9 fails to validate follower status in the StoryComposeController react and comment endpoints. This allows any authenticated user to enumerate sequential story IDs and submit reactions or comments to retrieve story media URLs and author information from follower-only stories...

CVE-2026-86178 Pixelfed through 0.12.9 Unauthorized Story Access via API

Pixelfed through 0.12.9 fails to validate follower status in StoryComposeController react and comment endpoints, allowing authenticated users to access follower-only stories. Attackers can enumerate sequential story IDs and submit reactions or comments to retrieve story media URLs and author...

PT-2026-86402

Pixelfed through 0.12.9 fails to validate follower status in StoryComposeController react and comment endpoints, allowing authenticated users to access follower-only stories. Attackers can enumerate sequential story IDs and submit reactions or comments to retrieve story media URLs and author...

Friday Squid Blogging: Arctic Bobtail Squid Video

Nice video of the Arctic bobtail squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy...

Malicious code in dolyame-boxy-stories (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector c0ef68742c490f223f00748b7f5dc82d614231b0d68e430736bbaac9175035e4 On require, index.js loads bridge.js which selects a platform-specific endpoint and downloads a binary from one of three attacker-controlled hosts...

Malicious code in dolyame-boxy-stories-of-block (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 1e18c95ca0abb6765cd4e9eb0ac8661962453f51c14d55902402a3b861d8ff16 On require of the package's main entry, index.js unconditionally loads support.js, which reconstructs hostnames from split-string arrays e.g...

Malicious code in bnpl-blocks-stories (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 04845144f2e54662acd3413698e57b4efbbe44c47ddeb3c40c2fcc7383ae572c On require of the package, index.js loads./ext which reconstructs hardcoded hostnames via fragment-joined arrays e.g. oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev...

Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands

Lower catch this year. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy...

Meta's New AI Image Tool Lets Others Use Your Public Instagram Photos in AI Images

Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence AI model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it's enabled by default. "You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific Instagram profiles right into your...

ThreatsDay: AI Compute Hijacking, Apple Email Flaw, BlueHammer Ransomware + 14 Stories

This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem in different ways. Everything looks normal until someone tests a small gap and finds a way through. This is not one big break. It is small permissions, weak check...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Fluid Pump

This fluid pump was inspired by the way squids propel themselves through the water. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy...

MAL-2026-5256 Malicious code in executable-stories-playwright (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 3137898a0ce7b26bf51153300f929a28c1d653830a2ddf7f57d7dea270e2a7e0 No concrete installer-harm signals were identified in this version. No lifecycle hooks fetching remote payloads, no credential or environment scrapin...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code containing a malicious binding.gyp file that drops and runs a self-propagating cloud secret stealer. The malicious code attempts to exfiltrate AWS, GCP, Azure, Vault, and Kubernetes credentials, as well as npm an...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code containing a malicious binding.gyp file that drops and runs a self-propagating cloud secret stealer. The malicious code attempts to exfiltrate AWS, GCP, Azure, Vault, and Kubernetes credentials, as well as npm an...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code containing a malicious binding.gyp file that drops and runs a self-propagating cloud secret stealer. The malicious code attempts to exfiltrate AWS, GCP, Azure, Vault, and Kubernetes credentials, as well as npm an...