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The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting university staff, researchers, and professors for intelligence gathering purposes. Cybersecurity firm Resilience said it identified the activity in late July 2024 after it observed an operation security (OPSEC) error made by the hackers. Kimsuky, also known by the names APT43, ARCHIPELAGO,

The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally. One of those messages went to Grant Smith, who infiltrated their systems and exposed them to US authorities.

### Summary If a user is granted the `admin:users` scope, they may escalate their own privileges by making themselves a full admin user. ### Details The `admin:users` scope allows a user to edit user records: > admin:users > > Read, write, create and delete users and their authentication state, not including their servers or tokens. > > -- https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rbac/scopes.html#available-scopes However, this includes making users admins. Admin users are granted scopes beyond `admin:users` making this a mechanism by which granted scopes may be escalated. ### Impact The impact is relatively small in that `admin:users` is already an extremely privileged scope only granted to trusted users. In effect, `admin:users` is equivalent to `admin=True`, which is not intended. Note that the change here only prevents escalation to the built-in JupyterHub admin role that has unrestricted permissions. It does not prevent users with e.g. `groups` permissions from granting ...

Windows Firewall Control version 6.11.0 suffers from an unquoted service path vulnerability.

As AI technologies continue to advance at a rapid pace, privacy, security and governance teams can't expect to achieve strong AI governance while working in isolation.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new "0.0.0.0 Day" impacting all major web browsers that malicious websites could take advantage of to breach local networks. The critical vulnerability "exposes a fundamental flaw in how browsers handle network requests, potentially granting malicious actors access to sensitive services running on local devices," Oligo Security researcher Avi Lumelsky

Black Hat presentation reveals adversaries don't need to complete all seven stages of a traditional kill chain to achieve their objectives.

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 6.9 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Dorsett Controls Equipment: InfoScan Vulnerabilities: Exposure of Sensitive Information To An Unauthorized Actor, Path Traversal 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to expose sensitive information, resulting in data theft and misuse of credentials. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following Dorsett Controls products are affected: InfoScan: v1.32, v1.33, and v1.35 3.2 Vulnerability Overview 3.2.1 EXPOSURE OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION TO AN UNAUTHORIZED ACTOR CWE-200 Dorsett Controls InfoScan is vulnerable due to a leak of possible sensitive information through the response headers and the rendered JavaScript prior to user login. CVE-2024-42493 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.3 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N). A CVSS v4 score has a...

Researchers at Aqua Security discovered the "Shadow Resource" attack vector and the "Bucket Monopoly" problem, where threat actors can guess the name of S3 buckets based on their public account IDs.

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