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Watering Hole Attack on Kurdish Sites Distributing Malicious APKs and Spyware

As many as 25 websites linked to the Kurdish minority have been compromised as part of a watering hole attack designed to harvest sensitive information for over a year and a half. French cybersecurity firm Sekoia, which disclosed details of the campaign dubbed SilentSelfie, described the intrusion set as long-running, with first signs of infection detected as far back as December 2022. The

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GenAI Writes Malicious Code to Spread AsyncRAT

Researchers have uncovered one of the first examples of threat actors using artificial intelligence chatbots for malware creation, in a phishing attack spreading the open source remote access Trojan.

GHSA-59hf-mpf8-pqjh: Mattermost fails to strip `embeds` from `metadata` when broadcasting `posted` events

Mattermost does not strip `embeds` from `metadata` when broadcasting `posted` events. This allows users to include arbitrary embeds in posts, which are then broadcasted via websockets. This can be exploited in many ways, for example to create permalinks with fully customizable content or to trigger a client Side Denial of Service (DoS) by sending a permalink with a non-string message. The advisory metadata references the appropriate go pseudo version available from pkg.go.dev

Cloudflare Warns of India-Linked Hackers Targeting South and East Asian Entities

An advanced threat actor with an India nexus has been observed using multiple cloud service providers to facilitate credential harvesting, malware delivery, and command-and-control (C2). Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare is tracking the activity under the name SloppyLemming, which is also called Outrider Tiger and Fishing Elephant. "Between late 2022 to present, SloppyLemming

'SloppyLemming' APT Abuses Cloudflare Service in Pakistan Attacks

Who needs advanced malware when you can take advantage of a bunch of OSS tools and free cloud services to compromise your target?

MoneyGram Cyberattack: Global Service Disruptions Enter Day 5

MoneyGram faces a cyberattack that has caused global service disruptions for five days. Customers are unable to send…

GHSA-75j2-9gmc-m855: Camaleon CMS vulnerable to stored XSS through user file upload (GHSL-2024-184)

A stored cross-site scripting has been found in the image upload functionality that can be used by normal registered users: It is possible to upload a SVG image containing JavaScript and it's also possible to upload a HTML document when the format parameter is manually changed to [documents][1] or a string of an [unsupported format][2]. If an authenticated user or administrator visits that uploaded image or document malicious JavaScript can be executed on their behalf (e.g. changing or deleting content inside of the CMS.) [1]: https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/blob/feccb96e542319ed608acd3a16fa5d92f13ede67/app/uploaders/camaleon_cms_uploader.rb#L105-L106 [2]: https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/blob/feccb96e542319ed608acd3a16fa5d92f13ede67/app/uploaders/camaleon_cms_uploader.rb#L110-L111 ## Impact This issue may lead to account takeover due to reflected Cross-site scripting (XSS). ## Remediation Only allow the upload of safe files such as PNG, TXT and others or serve al...

GHSA-m842-4qm8-7gpq: Gradio allows users to access arbitrary files

### Impact This vulnerability allows users of Gradio applications that have a public link (such as on Hugging Face Spaces) to access files on the machine hosting the Gradio application. This involves intercepting and modifying the network requests made by the Gradio app to the server. ### Patches Yes, the problem has been patched in Gradio version 4.19.2 or higher. We have no knowledge of this exploit being used against users of Gradio applications, but we encourage all users to upgrade to Gradio 4.19.2 or higher. Fixed in: https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/16fbe9cd0cffa9f2a824a0165beb43446114eec7 CVE: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1728

Pwn2Own Auto Offers $500K for Tesla Hacks

There will be four major categories in the 2025 retread of the hacking competition, with prizes ranging for each challenge, from $20,000 to half a million.

ABB Cylon Aspect 3.07.00 Remote Code Execution

The ABB Cylon Aspect version 3.07.00 BMS/BAS controller suffers from an unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerability. This can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands through the host HTTP GET parameter called by networkDiagAjax.php script.