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A China-affiliated threat actor known as UNC6384 has been linked to a fresh set of attacks exploiting an unpatched Windows shortcut vulnerability to target European diplomatic and government entities between September and October 2025. The activity targeted diplomatic organizations in Hungary, Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands, as well as government agencies in Serbia, Arctic Wolf said in a

Cybercriminals exploit a WSUS vulnerability to deploy Skuld Stealer malware, even after Microsoft released an urgent security patch.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we break down how one of the most common card shufflers could be altered to cheat, and why that matters—even for those who don’t frequent the poker table.

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 11: Enterprise cyber teams are in prime position to push back against our current "Golden Age of Surveillance," according to our guests Ronald Deibert from Citizen Lab and David Greene from the EFF.

sqls-server/sqls 0.2.28 is vulnerable to command injection in the config command because the openEditor function passes the EDITOR environment variable and config file path to sh -c without sanitization, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue has been patched via commit https://github.com/sqls-server/sqls/commit/468a23fc89af89f632cc023a10c031e4bc781797.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Blogs widget in Liferay Portal 7.4.0 through 7.4.3.111, and older unsupported versions, and Liferay DXP 2023.Q4.0 through 2023.Q4.10, 2023.Q3.1 through 2023.Q3.8, 7.4 GA through update 92, 7.3 GA through update 36, and older unsupported versions allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted <iframe> injected into a blog entry's “Content” text field. The Blogs widget in Liferay DXP does not add the sandbox attribute to <iframe> elements, which allows remote attackers to access the parent page via scripts and links in the frame page.

Are you using a fake version of a popular app? Appknox warns US users about malicious brand clones hiding on third-party app stores. Protect yourself from hidden spyware and ‘commercial parasites.’

Thor gets into the Halloween spirit, sharing new CVE trends, a “treat” for European Windows 10 users, and a reminder that patching is your best defense against zombie vulnerabilities.

### Impact Stored XSS vulnerabilities in Collections and Taxonomies allow authenticated users with content creation permissions to inject malicious JavaScript that executes when viewed by higher-privileged users. This affects: - Control panel users with permission to create or edit Collections and Taxonomies - Versions up to and including 5.22.0 The vulnerability can be exploited to: - Change a super admin's password (versions ≤ 5.21.0) - Change a super admin's email address to initiate password reset (version 5.22.0) - Gain unauthorized access to superadmin accounts The attack requires: - An authenticated user with control panel and content creation permissions - A super admin to view the compromised content ### Patches This has been fixed in 5.22.1. ### Credits Statamic thanks [Wojtek Chwala](https://github.com/wojtekchwala) for responsibly reporting the identified issues and working with us as we addressed them.

### Summary Using `.t` (aka `.list`) with `{ sync: true }` to read tar entry contents returns uninitialized memory contents if tar file was changed on disk to a smaller size while being read. ### Details See: * https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/issues/445 * https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/pull/446 * Regression happened in https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar/commit/5330eb04bc43014f216e5c271b40d5c00d45224d ### PoC A: ```js import * as tar from 'tar' import fs from 'node:fs' fs.writeFileSync('tar.test.tmp', Buffer.alloc(1*1024)) // from readme const filesAdded = [] tar.c( { sync: true, file: 'tar.test.tmp.tar', onWriteEntry(entry) { // initially, it's uppercase and 0o644 console.log('adding', entry.path, entry.stat.mode.toString(8)) // make all the paths lowercase entry.path = entry.path.toLowerCase() // make the entry executable entry.stat.mode = 0o755 // in the archive, it's lowercase and 0o755 filesAdded.push([entr...