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Experts Discover Multiple Malicious npm Packages | Cyware Hacker News

Experts Discover Multiple Malicious npm Packages | Cyware Alerts – Hacker News The world of open-source software offers countless benefits to developers worldwide. However, with opportunities also come risks. The FortiGuard Labs team recently uncovered numerous malicious packages within npm, the most extensive software registry for JavaScript. This article delves deep into these packages, unveiling […]

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Qualcomm Releases Patch for 3 new Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation

Oct 03, 2023THNZero Day / Vulnerability Chipmaker Qualcomm has released security updates to address 17 vulnerabilities in various components, while warning that three other zero-days have come under active exploitation. Of the 17 flaws, three are rated Critical, 13 are rated High, and one is rated Medium in severity. “There are indications from Google Threat […]

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Warning: PyTorch Models Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via ShellTorch

Oct 03, 2023THNArtificial Intelligence / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple critical security flaws in the TorchServe tool for serving and scaling PyTorch models that could be chained to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. Israel-based runtime application security company Oligo, which made the discovery, has coined the vulnerabilities ShellTorch. “These vulnerabilities […] […]

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US Executives Targeted in Phishing Attacks Exploiting Flaw in Indeed Job Platform

A recent phishing campaign targeting executives in senior roles has been exploiting an open redirection vulnerability in the Indeed website, cybersecurity firm Menlo Security warns. Headquartered in the US, Indeed is a popular worldwide job search platform, which claims to have more than 350 million unique visitors each month, and more than 14,000 employees globally. […]

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Hackers seen exploiting bugs in browsers and popular file transfer tool

A vulnerability affecting a widely used tool embedded in web browsers and a separate bug in a popular file transfer tool are being exploited by hackers, according to both government officials and cybersecurity experts. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned on Monday that hackers are exploiting CVE-2023-5217 — a vulnerability affecting Google’s Chrome […]

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Over 3 Dozen Data-Stealing Malicious npm Packages Found Targeting Developers

Oct 03, 2023THNSoftware Security / Hacking Nearly three dozen counterfeit packages have been discovered in the npm package repository that are designed to exfiltrate sensitive data from developer systems, according to findings from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs. One set of packages – named @expue/webpack, @expue/core, @expue/vue3-renderer, @fixedwidthtable/fixedwidthtable, and @virtualsearchtable/virtualsearchtable – harbored an obfuscated JavaScript file that’s […]