A week in security (January 12 – January 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: WhisperPair exposes Bluetooth earbuds and headphones to tracking and eavesdropping Dutch police sell fake tickets to show how easily scams work "Reprompt" attack lets attackers steal data from Microsoft Copilot Phishing scammers are posting fake "account restricted...

PT-2026-3453

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Koko Analytics versions prior to 2.1.3 Description Koko Analytics, an open-source analytics plugin for WordPress, is susceptible to arbitrary SQL execution due to unescaped analytics export/import and permissive admin SQL import. Unauthenticat...

[SECURITY] Fedora 43 Update: forgejo-13.0.4-1.fc43

Forgejo pronounced /for=CB=88d=CD=A1=CA=92e.jo/ is a lightweight software f orge. Use it to host git repositories, track their issues and allow people to contribute to them!...

WhisperPair exposes Bluetooth earbuds and headphones to tracking and eavesdropping

WhisperPair is a set of attacks that lets an attacker hijack many popular Bluetooth audio accessories that use Google Fast Pair and, in some cases, even track their location via Google’s Find Hub network—all without requiring any user interaction. Researchers at the Belgian University of Leuven...

Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-001520)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-001520 advisory. It was discovered that the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly track bounds information for 32 bit registers when performing div and mod...

Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-003922)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-003922 advisory. An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8.15. scalar32minmaxor in kernel/bpf/verifier.c mishandles bounds tracking during use of 64-bit values, aka...

Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-003996)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-003996 advisory. An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in how the Linux kernels Voice Over IP H.323 connection tracking functionality handled connections on ipv6 port 1720. Th...

Your VMDR Year in Review: Making Security Progress Visible and Actionable

Security Teams Rarely Stop to Reflect When a security program is working well, very little seems to happen. That is by design. There is no alert for the incident that was prevented. No visibility into the attack path that was quietly closed. No recognition for the vulnerability that was fixed...

Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers...

CVE-2025-68768

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inet: frags: flush pending skbs in fqdirpreexit We have been seeing occasional deadlocks on pernetopsrwsem since September in NIPA. The stuck task was usually modprobe often loading a driver like ipvlan, trying to take the lock a...

Unity Linux 20.1060a / 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-002813)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-002813 advisory. The Linux kernel before 4.5 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service memory consumption by leveraging incorrect tracking of...

EUVD-2026-2429

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Drupal Facebook Pixel facebookpixel allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Facebook Pixel: from 7.X-1.0 through 7.X-1.1...

CVE-2026-22856

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.20.1, a race in the serial channel IRP thread tracking allows a heap use‑after‑free when one thread removes an entry from serial-IrpThreads while another reads it. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.20.1...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-22856

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.20.1, a race in the serial channel IRP thread tracking allows a heap use‑after‑free when one thread removes an entry from serial-IrpThreads while another reads it. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.20.1...

CVE-2026-22856

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.20.1, a race in the serial channel IRP thread tracking allows a heap use‑after‑free when one thread removes an entry from serial-IrpThreads while another reads it. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.20.1...

CVE-2026-22856

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.20.1, a race in the serial channel IRP thread tracking allows a heap use‑after‑free when one thread removes an entry from serial-IrpThreads while another reads it. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.20.1...

CVE-2026-22856 FreeRDP has a heap-use-after-free in create_irp_thread

FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.20.1, a race in the serial channel IRP thread tracking allows a heap use‑after‑free when one thread removes an entry from serial-IrpThreads while another reads it. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.20.1...

How Cybercrime Markets Launder Breach Proceeds and What Security Teams Miss

Explore how cybercrime markets turn stolen data into laundered funds using dollar‑pegged assets, mixers and exchanges-and why tracking BTC USDT price and stablecoin flows now matters for security, fraud and AML teams...

CVE-2025-68768 inet: frags: flush pending skbs in fqdir_pre_exit()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inet: frags: flush pending skbs in fqdirpreexit We have been seeing occasional deadlocks on pernetopsrwsem since September in NIPA. The stuck task was usually modprobe often loading a driver like ipvlan, trying to take the lock a...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Disallows dirty tracking if the page walk is incoherent. Dirty page tracking relies on the IOMMU to atomically update the dirty bit in the paging-structure entry. For this operation to succeed, the paging-structure...