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A critical GitLab vulnerability could allow an attacker to run a pipeline as another user This week, GitLab released new versions of its Community (open source) and Enterprise Editions. The updates include fixes for 14 different security issues, including cross site request forgery (CSRF), cross site scripting (XSS), denial of service (DoS), and more. One of the issues is deemed of low severity according to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), nine are of medium severity, and three are high — but there's also one critical bug with a CVSS score of 9.6 out of 10 source @Kalilinux

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/resources/trust-center/statement/ @Kalilinux

Julian Assange fiance, Stella Assange, revealed that his journey to freedom will personally cost Julian a staggering $520,000 USD. She set up a platform that could only take credit/debit cards and bank payments and people asked if there was a Bitcoin address where they could donate. So Julian's brother, Gabriel, set up a Bitcoin donation channel to raise donations. And now with an 8 Bitcoin donation (worth about $500k USD) recorded to an on-chain address posted by Stella Assange, Julian’s fiancee, it appears the Bitcoin community is resolved to support Julian and his family. @Kalilinux source

Have you already heard the news about GitHub and the css injection thing? Today following the CSS injection discovered by x account 'cloud11665', security researcher 'vmfunc' discovered you can also create ReadMe files which force log people out of their GitHub profiles. Oh, and you can make IP grabbers! The GitHub CSS Injection which was patched a few hours ago has already been bypassed. Internet nerds are returning with wrath as they resume anime backgrounds and anime banners. @Kalilinux

A jailbroken version of GPT-4o hit the #ChatGPT website this week, lasting only a few precious hours before being destroyed by #OpenAI. Twitter user "Pliny the Prompter," who calls themselves a white hat #hacker and "AI red teamer," shared their "GODMODE GPT" on Wednesday. Using OpenAI's custom #GPT editor, Pliny was able to #prompt the new GPT-4o model to bypass all of its restrictions, allowing the #AI #chatbot to swear, jailbreak cars, and make napalm, among other dangerous instructions. @Kalilinux https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/godmode-gpt-4o-jailbreak-released-by-hacker-powerful-exploit-was-quickly-banned

911S5 Botnet Dismantled and Its Administrator Arrested in Coordinated International Operation Botnet Infected Over 19M IP Addresses to Enable Billions of Dollars in Pandemic and Unemployment Fraud, and Access to Child Exploitation Materials @Kalilinux https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/911-s5-botnet-dismantled-and-its-administrator-arrested-coordinated-international-operation

VPNs are mainly useful for one thing: routing your network connection through a different network. Today, many people use a VPN in situations where they don't trust their local network. But the TunnelVision method of exploiting DHCP, makes it clear that using an untrusted network is not always an appropriate threat model for VPNs because they will not always protect you if you can't trust your local network. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/wider-view-tunnelvision-and-vpn-advice @Kalilinux

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC. Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/ @Kalilinux

Sounds like the justice department is on steroid nowadays! The alleged owner and operator of Incognito Market, a dark web marketplace for selling illegal narcotics online, was arrested at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on May 18 @Kalilinux

@Kalilinux https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-seize-breachforums-hacking-forum-used-to-leak-stolen-data/

Yesterday The New York Times unveiled that General Motor's had accidentally enrolled millions of people into its "OnStar Smart Driver+" program. If consumers chose to not enroll through the phone app – it would do it anyways. Unenrolling requires consumers to contact OnStar customer support line. However, some people do not trust them and have turned to stripping the electronic devices from their car. The OnStar Smart Driver+ data was being sold to LexisNexis, and insurance companies, to modify insurance rates. The data sold was invasive and logged: - Number of trips - Miles driven - Minutes driven - Hard-brake vents - Rapid accelerates - Speeding events The reporter from the New York Times requested a copy of their data and received it. See attached image. @Kalilinux Source

Last November, NASA's Voyager 1 sent home garbled data, and engineers traced the problem to the flight data subsystem (FDS). The problem turned out to be a single chip in the FDS memory. They couldn't repair the chip but could move the affected code into sections and store them in different parts of the FDS system. They tested the new system this week, sending signals to the Voyager 1, 22.5 light-hours away. It worked, and Voyager 1 is back. @Kalilinux Source

DDoS Logstalgia is a visualization tool that graphically repeats the web server access sequences simulating a retro arcade game. The left column shows the IPs that make the requests. The right-hand column is the resource on the server (url), it can be an html file, an image, etc. The "points" that travel are the requests/responses, and lastly, the 200s you see is the code that the web server returns (Http response code) to the requests. source

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Millions of customers' data found on dark web in latest AT&T data breach AT&T said the information included in the compromised data set varies from person to person. It could include social security numbers, full names, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth, as well as AT&T account numbers and passcodes. @kalilinux https://www.npr.org/2024/03/30/1241863710/att-data-breach-dark-web

The xz package, starting from version 5.6.0 to 5.6.1, was found to contain a backdoor. The impact of this vulnerability affected Kali between March 26th to March 29th. If you updated your Kali installation on or after March 26th, it is crucial to apply the latest updates today. This backdoor could potentially allow a malicious actor to compromise sshd authentication. If you did not update your Kali installation before the 26th, you are not affected by this backdoor vulnerability. More information can be found at: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/03/29/cve-2024-3094-linux-backdoor/ And https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 If you would like to be sure that you are up to date and not affected by this vulnerability, you can do the following to upgrade your local version of the package:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install —only-upgrade liblzma5

Full blog post: https://www.kali.org/blog/about-the-xz-backdoor/ @kalilinux

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Exploiting a vulnerability in Telegram's system that allows for matching user IDs with phone numbers Russian security forces and officials employ a system known as "Insider," alongside Telegram bots, to de-anonymize users by exploiting a vulnerability in Telegram's system that allows for matching user IDs with phone numbers, thereby revealing their identities. This system, which utilizes leaked databases from sources like Yandex and Wildberries, is part of a broader initiative called "Demon of Laplace," aimed at monitoring social networks and identifying activists. The purchase of "Insider" by authorities, under contracts signed by several Russian regional departments, is funded by budget money. The developer behind "Insider," Evgeny Venediktov, is known for his controversial past, and the legality of employing such systems for de-anonymization purposes raises significant questions under Russian law. STATISTICS: - More than 76 million mobile numbers are loaded into the "Insider" system from leaked databases. - One license for "Laplace's Demon" costs on average 500 thousand rubles. ($5500 USD) - In 2019, the database used had 10 million numbers, which has now grown to more than 76 million. @kalilinux Sources: [researcher lordx64 - zakharovchannel]

Russian state-backed hackers gained access to some of Microsoft’s core software systems in a hack first disclosed in January, the company said Friday, revealing a more extensive and serious intrusion into Microsoft’s systems than previously known. Microsoft believes that the hackers have in recent weeks used information stolen from Microsoft’s corporate email systems to access “some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems,” the tech firm said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. @kalilinux https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/08/tech/microsoft-russia-hack/index.html

In the emails, parts of which have been redacted, Musk argues that the company stood virtually no chance of building a successful generative AI platform by raising cash alone, and the company needed to find alternate sources of revenue to survive.

@kalilinux https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/tech/openai-elon-musk-emails/index.html