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Windows and Linux systems are being targeted by a ransomware variant called HelloXD, with the infections also involving the deployment of a backdoor to facilitate persistent remote access to infected hosts. "Unlike other ransomware groups, this ransomware family doesn't have an active leak site; instead it prefers to direct the impacted victim to negotiations through Tox chat and onion-based

Strapi v3.x.x versions and earlier contain a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in file upload function. By exploiting this vulnerability, an arbitrary script may be executed on the web browser of the user who is logging in to the product with the administrative privilege.

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor tracked under the moniker Lyceum has turned to using a new custom .NET-based backdoor in recent campaigns directed against the Middle East. "The new malware is a .NET based DNS Backdoor which is a customized version of the open source tool 'DIG.net,'" Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Niraj Shivtarkar and Avinash Kumar said in a report published last week. "

A pair of ransomware attacks crippled parts of the country—and rewrote the rules of cybercrime.

A vulnerability was found in Thomson TCW710 ST5D.10.05. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /goform/RgUrlBlock.asp. The manipulation of the argument BasicParentalNewKeyword with the input ><script>alert(1)</script> as part of POST Request leads to cross site scripting (Persistent). The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

Plus: Russia rattles its cyber sword, a huge Facebook phishing operation is uncovered, feds take down the SSNDOB marketplace, and more.

A novel hardware attack dubbed PACMAN has been demonstrated against Apple's M1 processor chipsets, potentially arming a malicious actor with the capability to gain arbitrary code execution on macOS systems. It leverages "speculative execution attacks to bypass an important memory protection mechanism, ARM Pointer Authentication, a security feature that is used to enforce pointer integrity," MIT

This affects all versions of package posix. When invoking the toString method, it will fallback to 0x0 value, as the value of toString is not invokable (not a function), and then it will crash with type-check.

The package jpeg-js before 0.4.4 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) where a particular piece of input will cause to enter an infinite loop and never return.

A Linux-based banking Trojan is a master at staying under the radar.