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An elusive, sophisticated cybercriminal group has used known and zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise more than 20,000 SOHO routers and other IoT devices so far, and then puts them up for sale on a residential proxy marketplace for state-sponsored cyber-espionage actors and others to use.

Cybersecurity firm Sekoia has discovered a new variant of Helldown ransomware. The article details their tactics and how…

Since surfacing in August, the likely LockBit variant has claimed more than two dozen victims and appears poised to strike many more.

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Linux variant of a relatively new ransomware strain called Helldown, suggesting that the threat actors are broadening their attack focus. "Helldown deploys Windows ransomware derived from the LockBit 3.0 code," Sekoia said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Given the recent development of ransomware targeting ESX, it appears that the group

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CVE-2024-28397 is a sandbox escape in js2py versions 0.74 and below. js2py is a popular python package that can evaluate javascript code inside a python interpreter. The vulnerability allows for an attacker to obtain a reference to a python object in the js2py environment enabling them to escape the sandbox, bypass pyimport restrictions and execute arbitrary commands on the host. At the time of this writing no patch has been released and version 0.74 is the latest version of js2py which was released Nov 6, 2022. CVE-2024-39205 is a remote code execution vulnerability in Pyload versions 0.5.0b3.dev85 and below. It is an open-source download manager designed to automate file downloads from various online sources. Pyload is vulnerable because it exposes the vulnerable js2py functionality mentioned above on the /flash/addcrypted2 API endpoint. This endpoint was designed to only accept connections from localhost but by manipulating the HOST header we can bypass this restriction in order to ...

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202411-9 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Perl, the worst of which can lead to arbitrary code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 5.38.2 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202411-8 - A vulnerability has been discovered in the Xorg Server and XWayland, the worst of which can result in privilege escalation. Versions greater than or equal to 21.1.14 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202411-7 - A vulnerability has been discovered in Pillow, which may lead to arbitrary code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 10.3.0 are affected.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5814-1 - A security issue was discovered in Thunderbird, which could result in the disclosure of OpenPGP encrypted messages.