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ATTACKS & VULNERABILITIES

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HITACHI-OWNED GLOBALLOGIC ADMITS DATA STOLEN ON 10K CURRENT AND FORMER STAFF

GlobalLogic, owned by Hitachi, suffered a significant data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of over 10,000 current and former staff members. The attack, attributed to the Clop ransomware group, exploited vulnerabilities in the Oracle E-Business Suite. Clop focuses on stealing and leaking data while pressuring victims for payment. Oracle has issued emergency patches to counter these attacks.

HOW GLASSWORM WORMED ITS WAY BACK INTO DEVELOPERS' CODE — AND WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT OPEN SOURCE SECURITY

The GlassWorm self-propagating worm resurfaced two weeks after eradication, infecting three new OpenVSX VS Code extensions (with over 10,000 downloads) and GitHub repositories using invisible Unicode characters and a blockchain-based C2 infrastructure, with victims including global enterprises and Middle Eastern government entities. The Russia-based attack steals GitHub credentials, pushes malicious AI-generated commits appearing as legitimate code changes, and exploits OpenVSX's lack of manual code review resources. Security teams should whitelist only trusted extension publishers, disable auto-updates, monitor for credential harvesting and abnormal outbound connections, and treat developer toolchains with the same security rigor as production infrastructure, as automated scanning alone cannot reliably stop these supply chain attacks.

TIPS FOR RELIABLE SPLIT-SECOND DNS REBINDING IN CHROME AND SAFARI

DNS rebinding attacks occur when an attacker can trick a victim into leaking data by having the victim first communicate with the attacker's public server and then switching the DNS record to point to a private server. In Safari, a private IP address will be prioritized over a public IP address, but an attacker can circumvent this by delaying the DNS response with the private IP address. In Chrome, IPv6 will be prioritized over IPv4, allowing an attacker to send an IPv6 response with a public IP address and then an IPv4 response with a private IP address. In both cases, the attacker blocks the user from their server after connection, forcing the browser to rebind to the private IP.

NO PLACE LIKE LOCALHOST: UNAUTHENTICATED REMOTE ACCESS VIA TRIOFOX VULNERABILITY CVE-2025-12480

Mandiant has uncovered a significant security flaw in the Triofox file-sharing platform (tracked as CVE-2025-12480), which allows attackers to bypass authentication by manipulating the Host header to impersonate “localhost.” This gave unauthorized access to critical admin configuration pages, enabling the creation of privileged accounts. Attackers can exploit this to upload and execute arbitrary files, abusing Triofox's anti-virus feature to run malicious scripts with high privileges. The vulnerability is now patched, but organizations using Triofox should urgently update, check for rogue admin accounts, audit anti-virus configuration, and monitor for unusual administrator and SSH activity.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION MOVES TO LOOSEN GDPR FOR AI AND COOKIE TRACKING

The EU's leaked "Digital Omnibus" proposal would shift cookie tracking from opt-in to opt-out by moving regulation from ePrivacy Directive to GDPR, explicitly permit AI training on personal data under "legitimate interest" without consent, and narrow sensitive data protections to only data that directly reveals protected characteristics. Companies would no longer need consent management for most cookies, but must document legitimate interest justifications, while privacy advocates warn this fundamentally weakens GDPR's core protections. Security professionals should prepare for the November 19 formal unveiling by reviewing data processing practices, documenting AI training justifications, and reassessing compliance frameworks for the shift from explicit consent to legitimate interest models.

APT37 HACKERS ABUSE GOOGLE FIND HUB IN ANDROID DATA-WIPING ATTACKS

North Korean APT37/KONNI actors are targeting South Koreans via KakaoTalk spear-phishing with digitally-signed MSI files that deploy AutoIT scripts which establish persistence, deliver RemcosRAT/QuasarRAT/RftRAT, and steal Google/Naver credentials to access Find Hub for GPS tracking and remote Android device wiping. The attackers are exploiting stolen credentials to execute factory resets three times, preventing recovery, use GPS data to time attacks when victims are outside, then hijack compromised KakaoTalk PC sessions to spread malware laterally through contacts. Organizations should enforce MFA on Google accounts, verify messenger file senders via direct calls before opening attachments, and maintain accessible recovery accounts. This attack abuses legitimate Find Hub features rather than exploiting vulnerabilities.

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