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Russian Hackers Sandworm Cause Power Outage in Ukraine Amidst Missile Strikes

The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google's Mandiant, which described the hack as a "multi-event cyber attack" leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS). "The actor first used OT-level living-off-the-land (LotL) techniques to

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This New Tool Aims to Keep Terrorism Content Off the Internet

Small platforms without resources to handle takedown requests have been weaponized by terrorist groups that share their content online. A free new tool is coming to help clean house.

Stealthy Kamran Spyware Targeting Urdu-speaking Users in Gilgit-Baltistan

Urdu-speaking readers of a regional news website that caters to the Gilgit-Baltistan region have likely emerged as a target of a watering hole attack designed to deliver a previously undocumented Android spyware dubbed Kamran. The campaign, ESET has discovered, leverages Hunza News (urdu.hunzanews[.]net), which, when opened on a mobile device, prompts visitors of the Urdu version to install its

CVE-2023-46729: SSRF via Next.js SDK tunnel endpoint

sentry-javascript provides Sentry SDKs for JavaScript. An unsanitized input of Next.js SDK tunnel endpoint allows sending HTTP requests to arbitrary URLs and reflecting the response back to the user. This issue only affects users who have Next.js SDK tunneling feature enabled. The problem has been fixed in version 7.77.0.

Here’s How Violent Extremists Are Exploiting Generative AI Tools

Experts are finding thousands of examples of AI-created content every week that could allow terrorist groups and other violent extremists to bypass automated detection systems.

GHSA-2rmr-xw8m-22q9: Sentry Next.js vulnerable to SSRF via Next.js SDK tunnel endpoint

### Impact An unsanitized input of Next.js SDK tunnel endpoint allows sending HTTP requests to arbitrary URLs and reflecting the response back to the user. This could open door for other attack vectors: * client-side vulnerabilities: XSS/CSRF in the context of the trusted domain; * interaction with internal network; * read cloud metadata endpoints (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.); * local/remote port scan. This issue only affects users who have [Next.js SDK tunneling feature](https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/nextjs/manual-setup/#configure-tunneling-to-avoid-ad-blockers) enabled. ### Patches The problem has been fixed in [sentry/nextjs@7.77.0](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sentry/nextjs/v/7.77.0) ### Workarounds Disable tunneling by removing the `tunnelRoute` option from Sentry Next.js SDK config — `next.config.js` or `next.config.mjs`. ### References * [Sentry Next.js tunneling feature](https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/nextjs/manual-setup/#confi...

Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor

Omegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators. A legal settlement took it down.

A new video series, Google Forms spam and the various gray areas of cyber attacks

It can be easy to get caught up in the “big” questions in cybersecurity, like how to stop ransomware globally or keep hospitals up and running when they’re targeted by data theft extortion.

Threat Roundup for November 3 to November 10

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 3 and Nov. 10. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key

ChatGPT Down? OpenAI Blames Outages on DDoS Attacks

By Waqas OpenAI and ChatGPT began experiencing service outages on November 8th, and the company is actively working to restore full service. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ChatGPT Down? OpenAI Blames Outages on DDoS Attacks