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Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today's story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of 'The Com,' an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.
The ABB Cylon FLXeon BACnet controller is vulnerable to an authenticated JSON flooding attack, leading to uncontrolled resource consumption and a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The /api/serialConfig endpoint allows an authenticated attacker to abuse an unrestricted loop to create a large number of JSON objects by sending specially crafted requests through the ports JSON array. This results in excessive memory and CPU usage, causing resource exhaustion and potential service failure.
The ACLU says it stands ready to sue for access to government records that detail DOGE’s access to sensitive personnel data.
The secret use of other people's generative AI platforms, wherein hijackers gain unauthorized access to an LLM while someone else foots the bill, is getting quicker and stealthier by the month.
The ABB Cylon FLXeon BACnet controller is vulnerable to an unauthenticated WebSocket implementation that allows an attacker to execute the tcpdump command. This command captures network traffic and filters it on serial ports 4855 and 4851, which are relevant to the device's services. The vulnerability can be exploited in a loop to start multiple instances of tcpdump, leading to resource exhaustion, denial of service (DoS) conditions, and potential data exfiltration. The lack of authentication on the WebSocket interface allows unauthorized users to continuously spawn new tcpdump processes, amplifying the attack's impact.
The application has a hidden administrative account 'cxpro' that has write access permissions to the device.
Microsoft is warning of an insecure practice wherein software developers are incorporating publicly disclosed ASP.NET machine keys from publicly accessible resources, thereby putting their applications in attackers' pathway. The tech giant's threat intelligence team said it observed limited activity in December 2024 that involved an unknown threat actor using a publicly available, static ASP.NET
Cybereason co-founders launch their second act with a security startup focused on offering a platform that uses agentic AI to offload repetitive tasks commonly performed by security analysts.
New mobile apps from the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek have remained among the top three "free" downloads for Apple and Google devices since their debut on Jan. 25, 2025. But experts caution that many of DeepSeek's design choices -- such as using hard-coded encryption keys, and sending unencrypted user and device data to Chinese companies -- introduce a number of glaring security and privacy risks.