May 06, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Users of Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress are being urged to update version 6.1.6 following the discovery of a security flaw. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-30777, relates to a case of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) that could be abused to inject arbitrary executable scripts into otherwise benign websites. The plugin, … [Read more...] about New Vulnerability in Popular WordPress Plugin Exposes Over 2 Million Sites to Cyberattacks
popular
Measuring the impact of YouTube chess tutorials on the use of popular openings
For easier reading, I left out all possible buckets and focused on interpreting the change_points_count. A significant trend change was detected on the March 12 — a day after GothamChess released the video, which makes sense as he lives in New York City and, therefore, the time zone impacts this. The detected type is a trend_change. Like before, the p-value is associated with a … [Read more...] about Measuring the impact of YouTube chess tutorials on the use of popular openings
Python Developers Warned of Trojanized PyPI Packages Mimicking Popular Libraries
Feb 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Supply Chain Attack Cybersecurity researchers are warning of "imposter packages" mimicking popular libraries available on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository. The 41 malicious PyPI packages have been found to pose as typosquatted variants of legitimate modules such as HTTP, AIOHTTP, requests, urllib, and urllib3. The … [Read more...] about Python Developers Warned of Trojanized PyPI Packages Mimicking Popular Libraries
New Malvertising Campaign via Google Ads Targets Users Searching for Popular Software
Dec 29, 2022Ravie LakshmananOnline Security / Malvertising Users searching for popular software are being targeted by a new malvertising campaign that abuses Google Ads to serve trojanized variants that deploy malware, such as Raccoon Stealer and Vidar. The activity makes use of seemingly credible websites with typosquatted domain names that are surfaced on top of Google … [Read more...] about New Malvertising Campaign via Google Ads Targets Users Searching for Popular Software
Researchers Detail New Attack Method to Bypass Popular Web Application Firewalls
Dec 10, 2022Ravie LakshmananWeb App Firewall / Web Security A new attack method can be used to circumvent web application firewalls (WAFs) of various vendors and infiltrate systems, potentially enabling attackers to gain access to sensitive business and customer information. Web application firewalls are a key line of defense to help filter, monitor, and block HTTP(S) traffic … [Read more...] about Researchers Detail New Attack Method to Bypass Popular Web Application Firewalls
Google Identifies 34 Cracked Versions of Popular Cobalt Strike Hacking Toolkit in the Wild
Google Cloud last week disclosed that it identified 34 different hacked release versions of the Cobalt Strike tool in the wild, the earliest of which shipped in November 2012. The versions, spanning 1.44 to 4.7, add up to a total of 275 unique JAR files, according to findings from the Google Cloud Threat Intelligence (GCTI) team. The latest version of Cobalt Strike is version … [Read more...] about Google Identifies 34 Cracked Versions of Popular Cobalt Strike Hacking Toolkit in the Wild
High-Severity RCE Vulnerability Reported in Popular Fastjson Library
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a recently patched high-severity security vulnerability in the popular Fastjson library that could be potentially exploited to achieve remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2022-25845 (CVSS score: 8.1), the issue relates to a case of deserialization of untrusted data in a supported feature called "AutoType." It was patched by the project … [Read more...] about High-Severity RCE Vulnerability Reported in Popular Fastjson Library
Popular NPM Package Updated to Wipe Russia, Belarus Systems to Protest Ukraine Invasion
In what's yet another act of sabotage, the developer behind the popular "node-ipc" NPM package shipped a new version to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine, raising concerns about security in the open-source and the software supply chain. Affecting versions 10.1.1 and 10.1.2 of the library, the changes introduced undesirable behavior by its maintainer RIAEvangelist, targeting … [Read more...] about Popular NPM Package Updated to Wipe Russia, Belarus Systems to Protest Ukraine Invasion
Multiple Security Flaws Discovered in Popular Software Package Managers
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in popular package managers that, if potentially exploited, could be abused to run arbitrary code and access sensitive information, including source code and access tokens, from compromised machines. It's, however, worth noting that the flaws require the targeted developers to handle a malicious package in conjunction with … [Read more...] about Multiple Security Flaws Discovered in Popular Software Package Managers
Popular NPM Package Hijacked to Publish Crypto-mining Malware
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Friday warned of crypto-mining and password-stealing malware embedded in "UAParser.js," a popular JavaScript NPM library with over 6 million weekly downloads, days after the NPM repository moved to get rid of three rogue packages that were found to mimic the same library. The supply-chain attack targeting the … [Read more...] about Popular NPM Package Hijacked to Publish Crypto-mining Malware