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NASCAR Confirms Medusa Ransomware Breach After $4M Demand

Medusa Ransomware breached NASCAR, demanded $4 million, leaked sensitive data including maps and staff info, exposing major security failures. The incident was exclusively reported by Hackread.com.

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Steam games abused to deliver malware once again

A cybercriminal managed to insert malicious files leading to info stealers in a pre-release of a game on the Steam platform

GHSA-cmm8-gw4m-26cw: JHipster allows privilege escalation via a modified authorities parameter

JHipster before v.8.9.0 allows privilege escalation via a modified authorities parameter. Upon registering in the JHipster portal and logging in as a standard user, the authorities parameter in the response from the api/account endpoint contains the value ROLE_USER. By manipulating the authorities parameter and changing its value to ROLE_ADMIN, the privilege is successfully escalated to an Admin level. This allowed the access to all admin-related functionalities in the application.

U.S. Sanctions Firm Behind N. Korean IT Scheme; Arizona Woman Jailed for Running Laptop Farm

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a North Korean front company and three associated individuals for their involvement in the fraudulent remote information technology (IT) worker scheme designed to generate illicit revenues for Pyongyang. The sanctions target Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company (aka Sobaeksu United Corporation), and Kim Se Un, Jo

GHSA-75jv-vfxf-3865: Assemblyline 4 service client vulnerable to Arbitrary Write through path traversal in Client code

**Path-Traversal -> Arbitrary File Write in Assemblyline Service Client** --- ## 1. Summary The Assemblyline 4 **service client** (`task_handler.py`) accepts a SHA-256 value returned by the service **server** and uses it directly as a local file name. > No validation / sanitisation is performed. A **malicious or compromised server** (or any MITM that can speak to client) can return a path-traversal payload such as `../../../etc/cron.d/evil` and force the client to write the downloaded bytes to an arbitrary location on disk. --- ## 2. Affected Versions | Item | Value | |---|---| | **Component** | `assemblyline-service-client` | | **Repository** | [CybercentreCanada/assemblyline-service-client](https://github.com/CybercentreCanada/assemblyline-service-client) | | **Affected** | **All releases up to master branch.** | --- ## 4. Technical Details | Field | Content | |---|---| | **Location** | `assemblyline_service_client/task_handler.py`, inside `download_file()` | | **V...

Patchwork Targets Turkish Defense Firms with Spear-Phishing Using Malicious LNK Files

The threat actor known as Patchwork has been attributed to a new spear-phishing campaign targeting Turkish defense contractors with the goal of gathering strategic intelligence. "The campaign employs a five-stage execution chain delivered via malicious LNK files disguised as conference invitations sent to targets interested in learning more about unmanned vehicle systems," Arctic Wolf Labs said

GHSA-p9qm-p942-q3w5: XWiki Platform vulnerable to SQL injection through XWiki#searchDocuments API

### Impact It's possible to execute any SQL query in Oracle by using the function like [DBMS_XMLGEN or DBMS_XMLQUERY](https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/arpls/DBMS_XMLGEN.html). The XWiki#searchDocuments APIs are not sanitizing the query at all and even if they force a specific select, Hibernate allows using any native function in an HQL query (for example in the WHERE). ### Patches This has been patched in 16.10.6 and 17.3.0-rc-1. ### Workarounds There is no known workaround, other than upgrading XWiki. ### References https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-22728 ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [Jira XWiki.org](https://jira.xwiki.org/) * Email us at [Security Mailing List](mailto:security@xwiki.org)

GHSA-m837-g268-mmv7: Node-SAML SAML Authentication Bypass

Node-SAML loads the assertion from the (unsigned) original response document. This is different than the parts that are verified when checking signature. This allows an attacker to modify authentication details within a valid SAML assertion. For example, in one attack it is possible to remove any character from the SAML assertion username. To conduct the attack an attacker would need a validly signed document from the identity provider (IdP). In fixing this we upgraded xml-crypto to v6.1.2 and made sure to process the SAML assertions from only verified/authenticated contents. This will prevent future variants from coming up.

Why Security Nudges Took Off

Nudges can be powerful — but they are not immune to overuse or misapplication.

Hacker Added Prompt to Amazon Q to Erase Files and Cloud Data

A hacker injected a malicious prompt into Amazon Q via GitHub, aiming to delete user files and wipe AWS data, exposing a major security flaw.