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Security analysts have discovered two API security vulnerabilities in BrickLink.com, LEGO Group's official second-hand and vintage marketplace for LEGO bricks. BrickLink is the world's largest online community of LEGO fans, with over a million registered members.

NuGet, PyPi, and npm ecosystems are the target of a new campaign that has resulted in over 144,000 packages being published by unknown threat actors. "The packages were part of a new attack vector, with attackers spamming the open-source ecosystem with packages containing links to phishing campaigns," researchers from Checkmarx and Illustria said in a report published Wednesday.

A hacking group tracked as MirrorFace has been targeting Japanese politicians for weeks before the House of Councilors election in July 2022, using a previously undocumented credentials stealer named 'MirrorStealer. The hackers deployed the new information-stealing malware along with the group's signature backdoor, LODEINFO, which communicated with a C2 server known to belong to APT10 infrastructure.

The U.S. National Security Agency on Tuesday said a threat actor tracked as APT5 has been actively exploiting a zero-day flaw in Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Gateway to take over affected systems. Successful exploitation requires that the Citrix ADC or Citrix Gateway appliance is configured as a SAML service provider or a SAML identity provider.

Citrix strongly urges admins to apply security updates for an 'Critical' zero-day vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Gateway that is actively exploited by state-sponsored hackers to gain access to corporate networks. Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway version 13.1 are not affected by CVE-2022-27518, so upgrading to it solves the security problem.

Pwn2Own paid out almost $1 million to bug hunters at last week's consumer product hacking event in Toronto, but the prize money wasn't big enough attract attempts at cracking the iPhone or Google Pixel because miscreants can score far more from less wholesome sources. The contest planned to give away $250,000 for a successful iPhone or Google Pixel exploit, he told The Register, in an exclusive interview at the end of the four-day event.

Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 has ended with competitors earning $989,750 for 63 zero-day exploits targeting consumer products between December 6th and December 9th. During this hacking competition, 26 teams and security researchers have targeted devices in the mobile phones, home automation hubs, printers, wireless routers, network-attached storage, and smart speakers categories, all up-to-date and in their default configuration. The STAR Labs team was the first to exploit a zero-day in Samsung's flagship device by executing an improper input validation attack on their third attempt, earning $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn points.

U.S. healthcare organizations could be in the crosshairs of a new cyberthreat collective dubbed Royal. The warning from HHS's Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center identified the relatively new group as perps behind several attacks first appearing in September 2022 against Healthcare and Public Healthcare targets.

The Iran-linked MuddyWater threat actor has been observed targeting several countries in the Middle East as well as Central and West Asia as part of a new spear-phishing activity. "The campaign...

Researchers have shed light on a new hybrid malware campaign targeting both Android and Windows operating systems in a bid to expand its pool of victims. The attacks entail the use of different malware such as ERMAC, Erbium, Aurora, and Laplas, according to a ThreatFabric report shared with The Hacker News.