#linux

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities. The packages in question are listed below - node-telegram-utils (132 downloads) node-telegram-bots-api (82 downloads) node-telegram-util (73 downloads) According to supply chain

#### Description This advisory follows the security advisory [GHSA-79w7-vh3h-8g4j published by the _yt-dlp/yt-dlp_ project](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/security/advisories/GHSA-79w7-vh3h-8g4j) to aid remediation of the issue in the _ytdl-org/youtube-dl_ project. ### Vulnerability _youtube-dl_ does not limit the extensions of downloaded files, which could lead to arbitrary filenames being created in the download folder (and path traversal on Windows). ### Impact Since _youtube-dl_ also reads config from the working directory (and, on Windows, executables will be executed from the _youtube-dl_ directory by default) the vulnerability could allow the unwanted execution of local code, including downloads masquerading as, eg, subtitles. ### Patches The versions of _youtube-dl_ listed as _Patched_ remediate this vulnerability by disallowing path separators and whitelisting allowed extensions. As a result, some very uncommon extensions might not get downloaded. ### Workarounds Any/al...

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of continued risks posed by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) malware known as XorDDoS, with 71.3 percent of the attacks between November 2023 and February 2025 targeting the United States. "From 2020 to 2023, the XorDDoS trojan has increased significantly in prevalence," Cisco Talos researcher Joey Chen said in a Thursday analysis.

Cisco Talos observed the ongoing global spread of the XorDDoS malware, predominantly targeting the United States, with evidence suggesting Chinese-speaking operators are using sophisticated tools to orchestrate widespread attacks.

IBM recently released their 2025 X-Force Cloud Threat Intelligence Index Report.Within the report and in collaboration with Red Hat Insights, “IBM X-Force found that more than half of Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers' environments had not deployed a patch for at least one critical CVE in their environment, and 18% had not patched five or more. At the same time, IBM X-Force found the most active ransomware families (e.g., Akira, Clop, Lockbit and RansomHub) are now supporting both Windows and Linux versions of their ransomware.”Red Hat Insights can help you better understand your overall

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new controller component associated with a known backdoor called BPFDoor as part of cyber attacks targeting telecommunications, finance, and retail sectors in South Korea, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Egypt in 2024. "The controller could open a reverse shell," Trend Micro researcher Fernando Mercês said in a technical report published earlier in

The China-linked threat actor known as UNC5174 has been attributed to a new campaign that leverages a variant of a known malware dubbed SNOWLIGHT and a new open-source tool called VShell to infect Linux systems. "Threat actors are increasingly using open source tools in their arsenals for cost-effectiveness and obfuscation to save money and, in this case, plausibly blend in with the pool of

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 8.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: ABB Equipment: M2M Gateway Vulnerabilities: Integer Overflow or Wraparound, Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling'), Unquoted Search Path or Element, Untrusted Search Path, Use After Free, Out-of-bounds Write, Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'), Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime, Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, Improper Privilege Management, Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'), Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection'), Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer, Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size, Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition'), Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type C...

NVIDIA's incomplete security patch, combined with a Docker vulnerability, creates a serious threat for organizations using containerized environments. This article explains the risks and mitigation strategies.

Despite their hacktivist front, CyberAv3ngers is a rare state-sponsored hacker group bent on putting industrial infrastructure at risk—and has already caused global disruption.