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Threat actors have been observed targeting semiconductor companies in East Asia with lures masquerading as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) that are designed to deliver Cobalt Strike beacons. The intrusion set, per EclecticIQ, leverages a backdoor called HyperBro, which is then used as a conduit to deploy the commercial attack simulation software and post-exploitation toolkit.

The Profile Extra Fields by BestWebSoft plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the prflxtrflds_export_file function in versions up to, and including, 1.2.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to expose potentially sensitive user data, including data entered into custom fields.

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) firmware for Supermicro baseboard management controllers (BMCs) that could result in privilege escalation and execution of malicious code on affected systems. The seven flaws, tracked from CVE-2023-40284 through CVE-2023-40290, vary in severity from High to Critical, according to Binarly

Versions of the package geokit-rails before 2.5.0 are vulnerable to Command Injection due to unsafe deserialisation of YAML within the 'geo_location' cookie. This issue can be exploited remotely via a malicious cookie value. **Note:** An attacker can use this vulnerability to execute commands on the host system.

Plus, Qakbot appears to be still active, despite efforts from the FBI and other international law enforcement agencies to disrupt the massive botnet.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6396-2 - It was discovered that some AMD x86-64 processors with SMT enabled could speculatively execute instructions using a return address from a sibling thread. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. Daniel Moghimi discovered that some Intel Processors did not properly clear microarchitectural state after speculative execution of various instructions. A local unprivileged user could use this to obtain to sensitive information.

Nowadays, more malware developers are using unconventional programming languages to bypass advanced detection systems. The Node.js malware Lu0Bot is a testament to this trend. By targeting a platform-agnostic runtime environment common in modern web apps and employing multi-layer obfuscation, Lu0Bot is a serious threat to organizations and individuals. Although currently, the malware has low

By Waqas Watch out for the phishing campaign leveraging the dangerous EvilProxy Phishing Kit. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: EvilProxy Phishing Kit Targets Microsoft Users via Indeed.com Vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice 6386-3 - Jana Hofmann, Emanuele Vannacci, Cedric Fournet, Boris Kopf, and Oleksii Oleksenko discovered that some AMD processors could leak stale data from division operations in certain situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. It was discovered that the bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle L2CAP socket release, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Categories: Android Categories: News Tags: Google Tags: Android Tags: Qualcomm Tags: webp Tags: ARM Mali Tags: cve-2023-4863 Tags: cve-2023-4211 Tags: cve-2023-33106 Tags: cve-2023-33107 Tags: cve-2023-22071 Tags: cve-2023-33063 Tags: 2023-10-006 Tags: patch level Google has patched 53 vulnerabilities in its Android October security updates, two of which are known to be actively exploited. (Read more...) The post Update your Android devices now! Google patches two actively exploited vulnerabilities appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.