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NSO Group must pay $4 million in damages and is permanently prohibited from reverse-engineering WhatsApp or creating new accounts after targeting users with spyware.

Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services. The penalties for violating Canada's anti money-laundering laws come ten months after KrebsOnSecurity noted that Cryptomus's Vancouver street address was home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges — none of which were physically located there.

The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new campaign that has leveraged a compromised email account to distribute a backdoor called Phoenix to various organizations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including over 100 government entities. The end goal of the campaign is to infiltrate high-value targets and facilitate intelligence gathering

Multiple string reading functions expose uninitialized memory by setting length to capacity when no null terminator is found. This allows reading uninitialized memory which may contain sensitive data from previous allocations. The ncurses-rs repository is archived and unmaintained.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a coordinated spear-phishing campaign dubbed PhantomCaptcha targeting organizations associated with Ukraine's war relief efforts to deliver a remote access trojan that uses a WebSocket for command-and-control (C2). The activity, which took place on October 8, 2025, targeted individual members of the International Red Cross, Norwegian Refugee

### Summary The client-side settings are not checked before sending local files to MySQL server, which allows obtaining arbitrary files from the client using a rogue server. ### Details It is possible to create a rogue MySQL server that emulates authorization, ignores client flags and requests arbitrary files from the client by sending a LOAD_LOCAL instruction packet. Related to CVE-2019-2503. ### PoC First, start up a rogue MySQL server that ignores client-side flags and sends LOAD_LOCAL packet to the client – tested with https://github.com/rmb122/rogue_mysql_server 1. Create a file to be stolen by the rogue server: `echo "gotcha" > /tmp/my_secret_file.txt` 2. Clone the repo: `git clone git@github.com:rmb122/rogue_mysql_server.git && cd rogue_mysql_server` 3. Build the server: `make rogue_mysql_server` 4. Generate a sample config: `rogue_mysql_server -generate` 5. In `config.yaml` change `file_list` to `["/tmp/my_secret_file.txt"]` 6. Run the server: `./rogue_mysql_server -config c...

### Summary An authenticated SQL injection vulnerability exists in the member assignment data retrieval functionality of Admidio. Any authenticated user with permissions to assign members to a role (such as an administrator) can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary SQL commands. This can lead to a full compromise of the application's database, including reading, modifying, or deleting all data. The vulnerability is present in the latest version, 4.3.16. ### Details The vulnerability is located in the `adm_program/modules/groups-roles/members_assignment_data.php` script. This script handles an AJAX request to fetch a list of users for role assignment. The `filter_rol_uuid` GET parameter is not properly sanitized before being used in a raw SQL query. **File:** `adm_program/modules/groups-roles/members_assignment_data.php` ```php // ... // The parameter is retrieved from the GET request without sufficient sanitization for SQL context. $getFilterRoleUuid = admFuncVariableIs...

### Summary An unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Scapy <v2.7.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code **when a malicious session file is locally loaded via the `-s` option**. This requires convincing a user to manually load a malicious session file. --- ### Details Scapy’s interactive shell supports session loading using gzip-compressed pickle files: ```bash ./run_scapy -s <session_file.pkl.gz> ``` Internally, this triggers: ```python # main.py SESSION = pickle.load(gzip.open(session_name, "rb")) ``` Since no validation or restriction is performed on the deserialized object, **any code embedded via `__reduce__()` will be executed immediately**. This makes it trivial for an attacker to drop a malicious `.pkl.gz` in a shared folder and have it executed by unsuspecting users. The vulnerability exists in the `load_session` function, which deserializes data using `pickle.load()` on `.pkl.gz` files provided via the `-s` CLI flag or programmatically through `conf.session`. ...

The safe function `any_as_u8_slice` can create byte slices that reference uninitialized memory when used with types containing padding bytes. The function uses `slice::from_raw_parts` to create a `&[u8]` covering the entire size of a type, including padding bytes. According to Rust's documentation, `from_raw_parts` requires all bytes to be properly initialized, but padding bytes in structs are not guaranteed to be initialized. This violates the safety contract and causes undefined behavior.

Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning.