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Cyber threats didn’t slow down last week—and attackers are getting smarter. We’re seeing malware hidden in virtual machines, side-channel leaks exposing AI chats, and spyware quietly targeting Android devices in the wild. But that’s just the surface. From sleeper logic bombs to a fresh alliance between major threat groups, this week’s roundup highlights a clear shift: cybercrime is evolving fast

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Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a massive phishing campaign targeting the hospitality industry that lures hotel managers to ClickFix-style pages and harvest their credentials by deploying malware like PureRAT. "The attacker's modus operandi involved using a compromised email account to send malicious messages to multiple hotel establishments," Sekoia said. "This campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new set of three extensions associated with the GlassWorm campaign, indicating continued attempts on part of threat actors to target the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) ecosystem. The extensions in question, which are still available for download, are listed below - ai-driven-dev.ai-driven-dev (3,402 downloads) adhamu.history-in-sublime-merge (4,057

The FBI has issued a federal subpoena to domain registrar Tucows, demanding extensive billing and session records to unmask the anonymous operator of Archive.ph (Archive.is and Archive.today). The site, known for bypassing paywalls, is now the subject of an undisclosed criminal investigation.

Microsoft has disclosed details of a novel side-channel attack targeting remote language models that could enable a passive adversary with capabilities to observe network traffic to glean details about model conversation topics despite encryption protections under certain circumstances. This leakage of data exchanged between humans and streaming-mode language models could pose serious risks to

### Summary pdfminer.six will execute arbitrary code from a malicious pickle file if provided with a malicious PDF file. The `CMapDB._load_data()` function in pdfminer.six uses `pickle.loads()` to deserialize pickle files. These pickle files are supposed to be part of the pdfminer.six distribution stored in the `cmap/` directory, but a malicious PDF can specify an alternative directory and filename as long as the filename ends in `.pickle.gz`. A malicious, zipped pickle file can then contain code which will automatically execute when the PDF is processed. ### Details ```python # Vulnerable code in pdfminer/cmapdb.py:233-246 def _load_data(cls, name: str) -> Any: name = name.replace("\0", "") # Insufficient sanitization filename = "%s.pickle.gz" % name # ... path construction ... path = os.path.join(directory, filename) # If filename is an absolte path, directory is ignored # ... return type(str(name), (), pickle.loads(gzfile.read())) # Unsafe deserializatio...

### Summary The `hostDisk` feature in KubeVirt allows mounting a host file or directory owned by the user with UID 107 into a VM. However, the implementation of this feature and more specifically the `DiskOrCreate` option which creates a file if it doesn't exist, has a logic bug that allows an attacker to read and write arbitrary files owned by more privileged users on the host system. ### Details The `hostDisk` feature gate in KubeVirt allows mounting a QEMU RAW image directly from the host into a VM. While similar features, such as mounting disk images from a PVC, enforce ownership-based restrictions (e.g., only allowing files owned by specific UID, this mechanism can be subverted. For a RAW disk image to be readable by the QEMU process running within the `virt-launcher` pod, it must be owned by a user with UID 107. **If this ownership check is considered a security barrier, it can be bypassed**. In addition, the ownership of the host files mounted via this feature is changed to th...

AstrBot Project v3.5.22 has an arbitrary file read vulnerability in function _encode_image_bs64. Since the _encode_image_bs64 function defined in entities.py opens the image specified by the user in the request body and returns the image content as a base64-encoded string without checking the legitimacy of the image path, attackers can construct a series of malicious URLs to read any specified file, resulting in sensitive data leakage.

AV-Comparatives put 13 top Android security apps to the test against stalkerware. Malwarebytes caught them all.