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The MITRE framework's applied exercise provides defenders with critical feedback about how to detect and defend against common, but sophisticated, attacks.

Such routers typically lack endpoint detection and response protection, are in front of a firewall, and don't run monitoring software like Sysmon, making the attacks harder to detect.

About Remote Code Execution – Windows OLE (CVE-2025-21298) vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the January Microsoft Patch Tuesday. OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) is a technology for linking and embedding objects into other documents and objects, developed by Microsoft. A common use of this technology is embedding an Excel table in a Word document. What […]

Advanced persistent threat group PlushDaemon, active since 2019, is using a sophisticated modular backdoor to collect data from infected systems in South Korea.

The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five years until a security researcher spent $300 to register the domain and prevent it from being grabbed by cybercriminals.

A vulnerability in 7-Zip that could allow attackers to bypass the MotW security feature in Windows has been patched.

The advanced persistent threat (APT) group is likely India-based and targeting individuals with connections to the country's intelligence community.

### Summary `gix-worktree-state` specifies 0777 permissions when checking out executable files, intending that the umask will restrict them appropriately. But one of the strategies it uses to set permissions is not subject to the umask. This causes files in a repository to be world-writable in some situations. ### Details Git repositories track executable bits for regular files. In tree objects and the index, regular file modes are stored as 0644 if not executable, or 0755 if executable. But this is independent of how the permissions are set in the filesystem (where supported). [`gix_worktree_state::checkout`](https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide/blob/8d84818240d44e1f5fe78a231b5d9bffd0283918/gix-worktree-state/src/checkout/function.rs#L8-L35) has two strategies for checking out a file and marking it executable on a Unix-like operating system, one of which is vulnerable: - If the file is created by assuming it does not already exist, correct permissions are applied, because per...

I have finalized the list of trending vulnerabilities for 2024 according to Positive Technologies. Last year, 74 vulnerabilities were classified as trending (to compare the scale, just over 40,000 were added to NVD in 2024). All trending vulnerabilities are found in Western commercial products and open source projects. This year, the vulnerabilities of domestic Russian […]