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Cisco Talos is releasing a GDT file on GitHub that contains various definitions for functions and data types.

The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August were carjacked a week later, while out house-hunting in a brand new Lamborghini. Prosecutors say the couple was beaten and briefly kidnapped by six young men who traveled from Florida as part of a botched plan to hold the parents for ransom.

Trojan.AutoIt.1443 targets 28,000 users, spreading via game cheats and office tools. This cryptomining and cryptostealing malware bypasses antivirus…

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed targeting job seekers in the tech industry to deliver updated versions of known malware families tracked as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. The activity cluster, tracked as CL-STA-0240, is part of a campaign dubbed Contagious Interview that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 first disclosed in November 2023. "The threat actor behind CL-STA-0240

Microsoft has released security updates to fix a total of 118 vulnerabilities across its software portfolio, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 118 flaws, three are rated Critical, 113 are rated Important, and two are rated Moderate in severity. The Patch Tuesday update doesn't include the 25 additional flaws that the tech giant addressed in its Chromium-based

Microsoft today released security updates to fix at least 117 security holes in Windows computers and other software, including two vulnerabilities that are already seeing active attacks. Also, Adobe plugged 52 security holes across a range of products, and Apple has addressed a bug in its new macOS 15 "Sequoia" update that broke many cybersecurity tools.

Threat actors are actively exploiting two of the vulnerabilities, while three others are publicly known and ripe for attack.

# Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2024-43485 | .NET Denial of Service Vulnerability ## <a name="executive-summary"></a>Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in System.Text.Json 6.0.x and 8.0.x. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. In System.Text.Json 6.0.x and 8.0.x, applications which deserialize input to a model with an `[ExtensionData]` property can be vulnerable to an algorithmic complexity attack resulting in Denial of Service. ## Announcement Announcement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/329 ## <a name="mitigation-factors"></a>Mitigation factors JSON models which do not utilize the `[ExtensionData]` feature are not impacted by this vulnerability. ## <a name="affected-software"></a>Affected software * Any .NET 8.0 application running on .NET 8.0.8 or earlier. * Any .NET 6.0 ...

# Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2024-43484 | .NET Denial of Service Vulnerability ## <a name="executive-summary"></a>Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in System.IO.Packaging. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. The System.IO.Packaging library may allow untrusted inputs to influence algorithmically complex operations, leading to denial of service. ## Announcement Announcement for this issue can be found at https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/328 ## <a name="mitigation-factors"></a>Mitigation factors Microsoft has not identified any mitigating factors for this vulnerability. ## <a name="affected-packages"></a>Affected Packages The vulnerability affects any Microsoft .NET Core project if it uses any of affected packages versions listed below ### <a name=".NET 9"></a>.NET 9 Package name | Affected version | ...