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AFP news agency suffers a cyberattack disrupting its content delivery systems. News coverage continues as experts investigate, with…

The Data Protection Commission has fined Meta $101M because 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext.

More than 140,000 phishing websites have been found linked to a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named Sniper Dz over the past year, indicating that it's being used by a large number of cybercriminals to conduct credential theft. "For prospective phishers, Sniper Dz offers an online admin panel with a catalog of phishing pages," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Shehroze Farooqi,

Versions of the package uplot before 1.6.31 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via the uplot.assign function due to missing check if the attribute resolves to the object prototype.

All versions of the package git-shallow-clone are vulnerable to Command injection due to missing sanitization or mitigation flags in the process variable of the gitShallowClone function.

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting the Docker Engine API with the goal of co-opting the instances to join a malicious Docker Swarm controlled by the threat actor. This enabled the attackers to "use Docker Swarm's orchestration features for command-and-control (C2) purposes," Datadog researchers Matt Muir and Andy Giron said in an analysis. The attacks

Hacktivism-related DDoS attacks have risen 70% in the region, most often targeting the public sector, while stolen data and access offers dominate the Dark Web.

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, a new indictment charges. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man's alleged targets were members of UGNazi, a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012.

NOYB, a European privacy group has filed a complaint with Austrian authorities, alleging that Mozilla breached GDPR by…

### Summary A user with the `editmyprivateinfo` right or who can otherwise change their name can XSS themselves by setting their "real name" to an XSS payload. ### Details Here's the offending line: https://github.com/StarCitizenTools/mediawiki-skins-Citizen/blob/d45c3d69f30863f622f16eb40dd41d3ca943454a/includes/Components/CitizenComponentUserInfo.php#L137 This was introduced in 717d16af35b10dab04d434aefddbf991fc8c168c ### PoC 1. Login 2. Go to Special:Preferences 3. Set the real name field to a string like `<script>alert("Admin with a propensity for self-XSSes")</script>` 4. Save your settings and use Citizen if it's not being used already  ### Impact Any user who can change their name (whether it's through the editmyprivateinfo right or through other means) can add XSS payloads that trigger for themselves only.