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Anthropic partnered with the US government to create a filter meant to block Claude from helping someone build a nuke. Experts are divided on whether its a necessary protection—or a protection at all.

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An investigation into the compromise of an Amazon Web Services (AWS)-hosted infrastructure has led to the discovery of a new GNU/Linux rootkit dubbed LinkPro, according to findings from Synacktiv. "This backdoor features functionalities relying on the installation of two eBPF [extended Berkeley Packet Filter] modules, on the one hand to conceal itself, and on the other hand to be remotely

The online world is changing fast. Every week, new scams, hacks, and tricks show how easy it’s become to turn everyday technology into a weapon. Tools made to help us work, connect, and stay safe are now being used to steal, spy, and deceive. Hackers don’t always break systems anymore — they use them. They hide inside trusted apps, copy real websites, and trick people into giving up control

In my 15 years as a software engineer, I’ve seen one truth hold constant: traditional databases are brilliant…

### Impact This vulnerability only affects users of the AWS attestor. Users of the AWS attestor could have unknowingly received a forged identity document. While this may seem unlikely, AWS recently issued a security bulletin about IMDS (Instance Metadata Service) impersonation.[^1] There are multiple locations where the verification of the identity document will mistakenly report a successful verification. - If a signature is not present or is empty https://github.com/in-toto/go-witness/blob/0c8bb30c143951d88b1d4b32f260c5f67d30137b/attestation/aws-iid/aws-iid.go#L161-L163 - If the RSA verification of the document fails for any reason https://github.com/in-toto/go-witness/blob/0c8bb30c143951d88b1d4b32f260c5f67d30137b/attestation/aws-iid/aws-iid.go#L192-L196 ### Workarounds The contents of the AWS attestation contain the identity document, signature, and public key that was used to verify the document. These attestations and their could be identity documents could be manually verif...

New research has uncovered that publishers of over 100 Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions leaked access tokens that could be exploited by bad actors to update the extensions, posing a critical software supply chain risk. "A leaked VSCode Marketplace or Open VSX PAT [personal access token] allows an attacker to directly distribute a malicious extension update across the entire install base,"

### **Vulnerability Description** #### Vulnerability Overview 1. During the artifact extraction process, the `unpack()` function extracts the compressed file to a temporary directory (`/etc.tmpdir`) and then attempts to move its contents to `/etc` using the `rename()` system call, 2. However, since `/etc` is an already existing system directory, the `rename()` system call fails, making normal archive extraction impossible. 3. At this point, if a malicious user sets the entry name inside the `tar.gz` file to a path traversal like `../../../../../etc/zipslip-poc`, 4. The `untar()` function combines paths using `filepath.Join(dest, filepath.Clean(header.Name))` without path validation, resulting in `target = "/work/input/../../../../../etc/zipslip-poc"`, 5. Ultimately, the `/etc/zipslip-poc` file is created, bypassing the normal archive extraction constraints and enabling direct file writing to system directories. #### untar(): Writing Files Outside the Extraction Directory https://gi...

New research shows that North Koreans appear to be trying to trick US companies into hiring them to develop architectural designs using fake profiles, résumés, and Social Security numbers.

### Summary Amazon.IonDotnet is a library for the Dotnet language that is used to read and write Amazon Ion data. An issue exists where, under certain circumstances, the library could an infinite loop, resulting in denial of service. As of August 20, 2025, this library has been deprecated and will not receive further updates. ### Impact An infinite loop issue in Amazon.IonDotnet library versions <v1.3.2 may allow a threat actor to cause a denial of service through a specially crafted text input. This invalid input triggered an error condition in the parser that was handled improperly, resulting in an infinite loop. ### Impacted versions: <1.3.2 ### Patches This issue has been addressed in Amazon.IonDotnet version [1.3.2](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Amazon.IonDotnet/1.3.2). We recommend upgrading to the latest version and ensuring any forked or derivative code is patched to incorporate the new fixes. ### Workarounds Only accept data from trusted sources, written using a supported...