JavaScript

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Once again, cyberattackers are targeting JavaScript developers — this time in a “complex and persistent supply chain attack” that’s distributing Trojanized packages for the popular JavaScript library jQuery across GitHub, Node Package Manager (npm), and jsDelivr repositories. Each package contains a copy of jQuery with one small difference: the end function, a part of the…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Tracked as CVE-2022-1364 and considered “high severity,” the exploited security hole is described as a type confusion in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. Attacks targeting type confusion bugs in Chrome’s V8 engine may lead to arbitrary code execution. All Chromium-based browsers are impacted. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1364 exists in the…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

In June 2020, OpenAI released version 3 of its Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT-3), a natural language transformer that took the tech world by storm with its uncanny ability to generate text seemingly written by humans. But GPT-3 was also trained on computer code, and recently OpenAI released a specialized version of its engine, named Codex,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

DevOps security firm JFrog released three open source security tools in response to recent issues with software registry npm to help JavaScript developers detect and prevent the installation of problematic packages. Software supply chain attacks are becoming a big problem in the open source software ecosystem, with attackers sneaking information stealers, keyloggers, and other types…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Users have been informed that the latest update includes three security fixes, including for a data exposure flaw related to the REST API, and a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue in the block editor. WordPress 5.8.1 also updates Lodash, a JavaScript library that provides utility functions for common programming tasks, to address security issues. These vulnerabilities…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

In the Creative Cloud desktop application, Adobe fixed three flaws rated critical, including arbitrary file overwrite and OS command injection issues that can lead to code execution, and an improper input validation issue that can be exploited for privilege escalation. In its Connect product, the company addressed one critical input validation issue that can result…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Websites Attack Attempts Rose in Q2

New data shows attackers are trying to sneak past malware scanners on websites using stealthy hacks such as cryptojacking and malicious JavaScript. Website security service provider SiteLock analyzed data from 6 million customer websites for the second quarter of 2018 and found that a website, on average, suffers 58 attack attempts per day – or…