A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider, a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into Twilio, LastPass, DoorDash, Mailchimp, and nearly 130 other organizations over the past two years.
SolarWinds patched a High severity vulnerability in Serv-U File Transfer Solution that affects multiple Serv-U products in FTP Server, Gateway and MFT Server versions 15.4. This vulnerability has been assigned with CVE-2024-28995 and severity as 8.6 (High).
This post highlights how the GitHub Copilot Chat VS Code Extension was vulnerable to data exfiltration via prompt injection when analyzing untrusted source code.
GitHub Copilot Chat GitHub Copilot Chat is a VS Code Extension that allows a user to chat with source code, refactor code, get info about terminal output, or general help about VS Code, and things along those lines.
It does so by sending source code, along with the user’s questions to a large language model (LLM).
The spyware, called AridSpy by ESET, is distributed through websites that pose as various messaging apps, a job search app, and a Palestinian Civil Registry app