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Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.

Data breach at Australian fast food giant Patties Foods exposes critical customer data! Learn what information may be…

It has been discovered that the Import/Export module is susceptible to broken access control. Regular backend users have access to import functionality which usually only is available to admin users or users having User TSconfig setting options.impexp.enableImportForNonAdminUser explicitly enabled. Database content to be imported however was correctly checked against users’ permissions and not affected. However it was possible to upload files by-passing restrictions of the file abstraction layer (FAL) - however this did not affect executable files which have been correctly secured by fileDenyPattern. Currently the only known vulnerability is to directly inject *.form.yaml files which could be used to trigger the vulnerability of TYPO3-CORE-SA-2018-003 (privilege escalation & SQL injection) - which requires the Form Framework (ext:form) being available on an according website. CVSSv3 scoring is based on this scenario. A valid backend user account is needed in order to exploit this vu...

Due to a missing file extension in the fileDenyPattern, backend user are allowed to upload *.pht files which can be executed in certain web server setups. The new default fileDenyPattern is the following, which might have been overridden in the TYPO3 Install Tool. ``` \.(php[3-7]?|phpsh|phtml|pht)(\..*)?$|^\.htaccess$ ```

Make sure to not expose the vendor directory to the publicly accessible document root. In composer managed installation, make sure to configure a dedicated web folder. In general it is recommended to not expose the complete typo3_src sources folder in the document root.

Financially motivated sextortion of teenage boys is the fastest-growing global cybercrime, according to the FBI and Homeland Security.

### Impact User with administrative privileges and upload files that look like images but contain PHP code which can then be executed in the context of the web server.

This post was authored by Kalpesh Mantri.  Cisco Talos is actively tracking a recent increase in activity from malicious email campaigns containing a suspicious Microsoft Excel attachment that, when opened, infected the victim's system with the DarkGate malware.  These campaigns, active since the second week of

A data breach at Tech in Asia has exposed the personal information of 221,470 users. Learn more about…

A WIRED investigation, based on more than 22 million flight coordinates, reveals the complicated truth about the first full-blown police drone program in the US—and why your city could be next.