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Contacted out of the blue for a virtual interview? Be cautious. Attackers are using fake interviews to slip malware onto your device.

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity, detected in early September 2025 and assessed to be ongoing, has been codenamed SpearSpecter by the Israel National Digital Agency (INDA). "The

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alert about an authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb WAF that could allow an attacker to take over admin accounts and completely compromise a device. "The watchTowr team is seeing active, indiscriminate in-the-wild exploitation of what appears to be a silently patched vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiWeb product," Benjamin Harris,

### Impact The prosemirror_to_html gem is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks through malicious HTML attribute values. While tag content is properly escaped, attribute values are not, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript code. **Who is impacted:** - Any application using prosemirror_to_html to convert ProseMirror documents to HTML - Applications that process user-generated ProseMirror content are at highest risk - End users viewing the rendered HTML output could have malicious JavaScript executed in their browsers **Attack vectors include:** - `href` attributes with `javascript:` protocol: `<a href="javascript:alert(document.cookie)">` - Event handlers: `<div onclick="maliciousCode()">` - `onerror` attributes on images: `<img src=x onerror="alert('XSS')">` - Other HTML attributes that can execute JavaScript ### Patches A fix is currently in development. Users should upgrade to version **0.2.1** or later once released. The patch escapes all HTML attrib...

## Summary In impacted versions of Astro using [on-demand rendering](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/on-demand-rendering/), request headers `x-forwarded-proto` and `x-forwarded-port` are insecurely used, without sanitization, to build the URL. This has several consequences the most important of which are: - Middleware-based protected route bypass (only via `x-forwarded-proto`) - DoS via cache poisoning (if a CDN is present) - SSRF (only via `x-forwarded-proto`) - URL pollution (potential SXSS, if a CDN is present) - WAF bypass ## Details The `x-forwarded-proto` and `x-forwarded-port` headers are used without sanitization in two parts of the Astro server code. The most important is in the `createRequest()` function. Any configuration, including the default one, is affected: [https://github.com/withastro/astro/blob/970ac0f51172e1e6bff4440516a851e725ac3097/packages/astro/src/core/app/node.ts#L97](https://github.com/withastro/astro/blob/970ac0f51172e1e6bff4440516a851e725ac3097/pa...

### Description of Vulnerability: An issue in AWS Wrappers for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL may allow for privilege escalation to rds_superuser role. A low privilege authenticated user can create a crafted function that could be executed with permissions of other Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) users. AWS recommends customers upgrade to the following versions: AWS Go Wrapper to 2025-10-17. ### Source of Vulnerability Report: Allistair Ishmael Hakim [allistair.hakim@gmail.com](mailto:allistair.hakim@gmail.com) ### Affected products & versions: AWS Go Wrapper < 2025-10-17. ### Platforms: MacOS/Windows/Linux

### Description of Vulnerability: An issue in AWS Wrappers for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL may allow for privilege escalation to rds_superuser role. A low privilege authenticated user can create a crafted function that could be executed with permissions of other Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) users. AWS recommends for customers to upgrade to the following versions: AWS JDBC Wrapper to v2.6.5 or greater. ### Source of Vulnerability Report: Allistair Ishmael Hakim [allistair.hakim@gmail.com](mailto:allistair.hakim@gmail.com) ### Affected products & versions: AWS JDBC Wrapper < 2.6.5 ### Platforms: MacOS/Windows/Linux

### Description of Vulnerability: An issue in AWS Wrappers for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL may allow for privilege escalation to rds_superuser role. A low privilege authenticated user can create a crafted function that could be executed with permissions of other Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) users. AWS recommends customers upgrade to the following versions: AWS Python Wrapper to v1.4.0 ### Source of Vulnerability Report: Allistair Ishmael Hakim <allistair.hakim@gmail.com> ### Affected products & versions: AWS Python Wrapper < 1.4.0 ### Platforms: MacOS/Windows/Linux

A Russian-speaking threat behind an ongoing, mass phishing campaign has registered more than 4,300 domain names since the start of the year. The activity, per Netcraft security researcher Andrew Brandt, is designed to target customers of the hospitality industry, specifically hotel guests who may have travel reservations with spam emails. The campaign is said to have begun in earnest around

In this week’s newsletter, Amy recounts her journey from Halloween festivities to unraveling the story of the 2022 Viasat satellite hack, with plenty of cybersecurity surprises along the way.