Tax refund scam targets Californians

The State of California Franchise Tax Board FTB recently issued a warning to taxpayers to protect themselves from tax scams. In their warning the FTB states: “Recently, the FTB received reports of a scam targeting taxpayers through text messages that appear to be from FTB. These text messages...

More vulnerable stalkerware victims’ data exposed in new TheTruthSpy flaw

TheTruthSpy is at it again. A security researcher has discovered a flaw in the Android-based stalkerware that allows anyone to compromise any record in the system. TheTruthSpy stalkerware is designed to be installed surreptitiously on a victim's Android phone. It then monitors that phone's...

A week in security (July 28 – August 3)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Apple ID scam leads to $27,000 in-person theft of Ohio man OpenAI kills "short-lived experiment" where ChatGPT chats could be found on Google Trump Administration and Big Tech want you to share your health data Prison visitor details shared with all inmates at...

[SECURITY] [DLA 4216-1] cjson security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4216-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Adrian Bunk June 15, 2025 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS -...

New warning issued over toll fee scams

Over a year ago the FBI warned about what was then a new form of smishing phishing via SMS scam: text messages that demanded payment for toll fees. The FTC sent out a similar warning in January, 2025. Then, in April another wave of toll fee scams began doing the rounds. Now the Departments of Mot...

CPA-RAG:Covert Poisoning Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Large Language Models

Retrieval-Augmented Generation RAG enhances large language models LLMs by incorporating external knowledge, but its openness introduces vulnerabilities that can be exploited by poisoning attacks. Existing poisoning methods for RAG systems have limitations, such as poor generalization and lack of...

CVE-2024-48509

Learning with Texts LWT 2.0.3 is vulnerable to SQL Injection. This occurs when the application fails to properly sanitize user inputs, allowing attackers to manipulate SQL queries by injecting malicious SQL statements into URL parameters. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker could gain...

CVE-2024-3072

The ACF Front End Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the updatetexts function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, t...

CVE-2023-46775

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in Djo Original texts Yandex WebMaster plugin = 1.18 versions...

CVE-2004-2237

Unknown vulnerability in Moodle before 1.3.4 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "strings in Moodle texts."...

How Private Investigators Handle Digital Forensics?

The world we live in is packed with data. Texts, emails, social media posts, deleted files, you name…...

Traceback of Poisoning Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Large language models LLMs integrated with retrieval-augmented generation RAG systems improve accuracy by leveraging external knowledge sources. However, recent research has revealed RAG's susceptibility to poisoning attacks, where the attacker injects poisoned texts into the knowledge database,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: dokuwiki-20240206b-1.fc42

DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creati ng documentation of any kind. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes su re the data-files remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files no...

CVE-2024-12460

The Years Since – Timeless Texts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'years-since' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible fo...

WordPress plugin Years Since – Timeless Texts 跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation. WordPress is a blogging platform developed in the PHP language. WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blogs on PHP and MySQL servers. A cross-site scripting...

CVE-2024-48509

Learning with Texts LWT 2.0.3 is vulnerable to SQL Injection. This occurs when the application fails to properly sanitize user inputs, allowing attackers to manipulate SQL queries by injecting malicious SQL statements into URL parameters. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker could gain...

CVE-2024-48509

Learning with Texts LWT 2.0.3 is vulnerable to SQL Injection. This occurs when the application fails to properly sanitize user inputs, allowing attackers to manipulate SQL queries by injecting malicious SQL statements into URL parameters. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker could gain...

CVE-2024-48509

Learning with Texts LWT 2.0.3 is vulnerable to SQL Injection. This occurs when the application fails to properly sanitize user inputs, allowing attackers to manipulate SQL queries by injecting malicious SQL statements into URL parameters. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker could gain...

CVE-2024-48509

CVE-2024-48509 affects Learning with Texts (LWT) 2.0.3. Multiple sources describe a SQL Injection vulnerability caused by inadequate input sanitization in URL parameters, enabling an attacker to manipulate queries and potentially access, modify, or delete data and execute arbitrary commands. The ...

Learning with Texts SQL注入漏洞

Learning with Texts LWT is a software application by the individual developer Jon Gauthier. It allows users to import text, read, save, view and test words and expressions in multiple languages. A security vulnerability exists in Learning with Texts LWT version 2.0.3, which stems from...