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Threat actors are flooding the npm open source package repository with bogus packages that briefly even resulted in a denial-of-service attack. "The threat actors create malicious websites and publish empty packages with links to those malicious websites, taking advantage of open-source ecosystems' good reputation on search engines," Checkmarx's Jossef Harush Kadouri said in a report published last week.
Attackers are exploiting the good reputation and "Openness" of the popular public JavaScript software registry NPM to deliver malware and scams, but are also simultaneously and inadvertently launching DoS attacks against the service. Malicious package on NPM pointing to a site serving malware.
A group of academics has demonstrated novel attacks that leverage Text-to-SQL models to produce malicious code that could enable adversaries to glean sensitive information and stage denial-of-service attacks. The findings, which were validated against two commercial solutions BAIDU-UNIT and AI2sql, mark the first empirical instance where natural language processing models have been exploited as an attack vector in the wild.
Four vulnerabilities in the widely adopted 'Stacked VLAN' Ethernet feature allows attackers to perform denial-of-service or man-in-the-middle attacks against network targets using custom-crafted packets. Stacked VLANs, also known as VLAN Stacking, is a feature in modern routers and switches that allows companies to encapsulate multiple VLAN IDs into a single VLAN connection shared with an upstream provider.
Russian threat actors capitalized on the ongoing conflict against Ukraine to distribute Android malware camouflaged as an app for pro-Ukrainian hacktivists to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against Russian sites. "The apps were not distributed through the Google Play Store, but hosted on a domain controlled by the actor and disseminated via links on third party messaging services."
Amusingly, if we're allowed to say that, the bug only gets triggered if a program decides to do the right thing when making or accepting a secure connection, and verifies the cryptographic certificate supplied by the other end. The OpenSSL implementation of the Tonelli-Shanks algorithm had a bug problem that was unlikely to show up in normal use, but could be triggered on purpose by feeding in data that would force the code to misbehave.
Apple on Wednesday rolled out software updates for iOS and iPadOS to remediate a persistent denial-of-service issue affecting the HomeKit smart home framework that could be potentially exploited to launch ransomware-like attacks targeting the devices. The iPhone maker, in its release notes for iOS and iPadOS 15.2.1, termed it as a "Resource exhaustion issue" that could be triggered when processing a maliciously crafted HomeKit accessory name, adding it addressed the bug with improved validation.
Eight different security vulnerabilities arising from inconsistencies among 16 different URL parsing libraries could allow denial-of-service conditions, information leaks and remote code execution in various web applications, researchers are warning. Multiple Parsers in Use: Whether by design or an oversight, developers sometimes use more than one URL parsing library in projects.
Don't duck at the latest mention of Apache: Two critical bugs in its HTTP web server - HTTPD - need to be patched pronto, lest they lead to attackers triggering denial of service or bypassing your security policies. Both vulnerabilities are found in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.51 and earlier.
No, you're not seeing triple: On Friday, Apache released yet another patch - version 2.17 - for yet another flaw in the ubiquitous log4j logging library, this time for a DoS bug. The latest bug isn't a variant of the Log4Shell remote-code execution bug that's plagued IT teams since Dec. 10, coming under active attack worldwide within hours of its public disclosure, spawning even nastier mutations and leading to the potential for denial-of-service in Apache's initial patch.