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The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been linked to a cyber espionage attack targeting an unnamed aerospace company in Spain in which employees of the firm were approached by the threat actor posing as a recruiter for Meta. "Employees of the targeted company were contacted by a fake recruiter via LinkedIn and tricked into opening a malicious executable file presenting itself as a coding

Categories: Personal Tags: dependabot Tags: GitHub Tags: password Tags: attack Tags: imitate Tags: profile Tags: avatar Tags: commit Tags: resource Tags: dependency We take a look at a clever attack imitating GitHub's Dependabot in order to publish rogue project updates. (Read more...) The post Dependabot impersonators cause trouble on GitHub appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Google has updated its Chrome Stable Channel to fix, among other things, an actively exploited vulnerability (Read more...) The post Update Chrome now! Google patches another actively exploited vulnerability appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

TorchServe is a tool for serving and scaling PyTorch models in production. TorchServe default configuration lacks proper input validation, enabling third parties to invoke remote HTTP download requests and write files to the disk. This issue could be taken advantage of to compromise the integrity of the system and sensitive data. This issue is present in versions 0.1.0 to 0.8.1. A user is able to load the model of their choice from any URL that they would like to use. The user of TorchServe is responsible for configuring both the allowed_urls and specifying the model URL to be used. A pull request to warn the user when the default value for allowed_urls is used has been merged in PR #2534. TorchServe release 0.8.2 includes this change. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

By Waqas Is it really necessary to display advertisements within an AI chatbot? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malicious Ads Infiltrate Bing AI Chatbot in Malvertising Attack

Two notable vulnerabilities in Google Chrome should be patched asap, and an allegedly new ransomware-as-a-service group.

A new malicious campaign has been observed hijacking GitHub accounts and committing malicious code disguised as Dependabot contributions with an aim to steal passwords from developers. "The malicious code exfiltrates the GitHub project's defined secrets to a malicious C2 server and modify any existing javascript files in the attacked project with a web-form password-stealer malware code

A civil liberties group has asked the DOJ to investigate deployment of the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, which research shows is often installed in predominantly Black neighborhoods.

An attacker with standard privileges on macOS when requesting administrator privileges from the application can submit input which causes a buffer overflow resulting in a crash of the application. This could make the application unavailable and allow reading or modification of data.

Cybersecurity agencies from Japan and the U.S. have warned of attacks mounted by a state-backed hacking group from China to stealthily tamper with branch routers and use them as jumping-off points to access the networks of various companies in the two countries. The attacks have been tied to a malicious cyber actor dubbed BlackTech by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of