#web

The Iranian-origin threat actor known as Charming Kitten has been linked to a new set of attacks aimed at Middle East policy experts with a new backdoor called BASICSTAR by creating a fake webinar portal. Charming Kitten, also called APT35, CharmingCypress, Mint Sandstorm, TA453, and Yellow Garuda, has a history of orchestrating a wide range of social engineering campaigns that cast a

By Waqas The #MonikerLink security flaw in Microsoft Outlook allows hackers to execute arbitrary code on the targeted device. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New MonikerLink Flaw Exposes Outlook Users to Data Theft and Malware

All versions of the package github.com/greenpau/caddy-security are vulnerable to Open Redirect via the redirect_url parameter. An attacker could perform a phishing attack and trick users into visiting a malicious website by crafting a convincing URL with this parameter. To exploit this vulnerability, the user must take an action, such as clicking on a portal button or using the browser’s back button, to trigger the redirection.

A surprise disclosure of a national security threat by the House Intelligence chair was part of an effort to block legislation that aimed to limit cops and spies from buying Americans' private data.

# GitHub Security Lab (GHSL) Vulnerability Report, scrypted: `GHSL-2023-218`, `GHSL-2023-219` The [GitHub Security Lab](https://securitylab.github.com) team has identified potential security vulnerabilities in [scrypted](https://github.com/koush/scrypted). We are committed to working with you to help resolve these issues. In this report you will find everything you need to effectively coordinate a resolution of these issues with the GHSL team. If at any point you have concerns or questions about this process, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at `[email protected]` (please include `GHSL-2023-218` or `GHSL-2023-219` as a reference). See also [this blog post](https://github.blog/2022-04-22-removing-the-stigma-of-a-cve/) written by GitHub's Advisory Curation team which explains what CVEs and advisories are, why they are important to track vulnerabilities and keep downstream users informed, the CVE assigning process, and how they are used to keep open source software secure...

### Impact Scrapy limits allowed response sizes by default through the [`DOWNLOAD_MAXSIZE`](https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-maxsize) and [`DOWNLOAD_WARNSIZE`](https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html#download-warnsize) settings. However, those limits were only being enforced during the download of the raw, usually-compressed response bodies, and not during decompression, making Scrapy vulnerable to [decompression bombs](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/409.html). A malicious website being scraped could send a small response that, on decompression, could exhaust the memory available to the Scrapy process, potentially affecting any other process sharing that memory, and affecting disk usage in case of uncompressed response caching. ### Patches Upgrade to Scrapy 2.11.1. If you are using Scrapy 1.8 or a lower version, and upgrading to Scrapy 2.11.1 is not an option, you may upgrade to Scrapy 1.8.4 instead. ### Workarounds There is...

By Waqas The latest report from Swedish telecom security firm Enea sheds light on security vulnerabilities within the widely used messaging platform, WhatsApp. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Israeli NSO Group Suspected of “MMS Fingerprint” Attack on WhatsApp

A malicious Python script known as SNS Sender is being advertised as a way for threat actors to send bulk smishing messages by abusing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Notification Service (SNS). The SMS phishing messages are designed to propagate malicious links that are designed to capture victims' personally identifiable information (PII) and payment card details, SentinelOne

There was about a 24-hour period where many news outlets reported on a reported DDoS attack that involved a botnet made up of thousands of internet-connected toothbrushes.

By Deeba Ahmed TicTacToe Dropper Obfuscates Code for Maximum Damage. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New TicTacToe Dropper Steals Data, Spreads Multiple Threats on Windows