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Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

The German BSI has published its 2023 state of IT security report which names identity theft as the main threat for consumers.

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in a popular WordPress plugin called Ultimate Member that has more than 200,000 active installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1071, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. Security researcher Christiaan Swiers has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw. In an advisory published last week, WordPress

By Waqas LoanDepot identified the ransomware attack on January 4, 2024 This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LoanDepot Ransomware Attack Leads to Data Breach; 17 Million Impacted

### Summary When using a modified client or the grpc interface directly, the `RegisterRepository` call accepts _both_ the repository owner / repo **and** the repo_id. Furthermore, these two are not checked for matching before registering webhooks and data in the database. ### Details It is possible for an attacker to register a repository with a invalid or differing upstream ID, which causes Minder to report the repository as registered, but not remediate any future changes which conflict with policy (because the webhooks for the repo do not match any known repository in the database). When attempting to register a repo with a different repo ID, the registered provider must have admin on the named repo, or a 404 error will result. Similarly, if the stored provider token does not have repo access, then the remediations will not apply successfully. Lastly, it appears that reconciliation actions do not execute against repos with this type of mismatch. ### PoC With an RPC like the...

By Waqas LockBit ransomware gang relaunches operation after law enforcement hacked its servers, threatening to target government entities more now. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LockBit Ransomware Gang Returns, Taunts FBI and Vows Data Leaks

By Deeba Ahmed META is suspending accounts of users on Facebook and Instagram, potentially linked to malicious Vietnamese activity involving META's Oculus. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Linked Oculus Accounts Trigger Facebook and Instagram Suspension

This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Joseph Cox about how an OnlyFake-generated fake ID fooled a cryptocurrency exchange.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202402-32 - A vulnerability has been discovered in btrbk which can lead to remote code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 0.31.2 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202402-31 - A vulnerability has been discovered in GNU Aspell which leads to a heap buffer overflow. Versions greater than or equal to 0.60.8-r3 are affected.