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In December 2024, the popular Ultralytics AI library was compromised, installing malicious code that hijacked system resources for cryptocurrency mining. In August 2025 , malicious Nx packages leaked 2,349 GitHub, cloud, and AI credentials. Throughout 2024, ChatGPT vulnerabilities allowed unauthorized extraction of user data from AI memory. The result: 23.77 million secrets were leaked through AI systems in 2024 alone, a 25% increase from the previous year. Here's what these incidents have in common: The compromised organizations had comprehensive security programs. They passed audits. They met compliance requirements. Their security frameworks simply weren't built for AI threats. Traditional security frameworks have served organizations well for decades. But AI systems operate fundamentally differently from the applications these frameworks were designed to protect. And the attacks against them don't fit into existing control categories. Security teams followed the f...

A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in MongoDB that could allow unauthenticated users to read uninitialized heap memory. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS score: 8.7), has been described as a case of improper handling of length parameter inconsistency , which arises when a program fails to appropriately tackle scenarios where a length field is inconsistent with the actual length of the associated data. "Mismatched length fields in zlib compressed protocol headers may allow a read of uninitialized heap memory by an unauthenticated client," according to a description of the flaw in CVE.org. The flaw impacts the following versions of the database - MongoDB 8.2.0 through 8.2.3 MongoDB 8.0.0 through 8.0.16 MongoDB 7.0.0 through 7.0.26 MongoDB 6.0.0 through 6.0.26 MongoDB 5.0.0 through 5.0.31 MongoDB 4.4.0 through 4.4.29 All MongoDB Server v4.2 versions All MongoDB Server v4.0 versions All MongoDB Server v3.6 versions The issue has b...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software is at the heart of many enterprising supporting human resources, accounting, shipping, and manufacturing. These systems can become very complex and difficult to maintain. They are often highly customized, which can make patching difficult. However, critical vulnerabilities keep affecting these systems and put critical business data at risk.  The SANS Internet Storm Center published a report showing how the open-source ERP framework OFBiz is currently the target of new varieties of the Mirai botnet. As part of its extensive project portfolio, the Apache Foundation supports OFBiz , a Java-based framework for creating ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) applications. OFBiz appears to be far less prevalent than commercial alternatives. However, just as with any other ERP system, organizations rely on it for sensitive business data, and the security of these ERP systems is critical. In May this year, a critical security update was releas...

Two new vulnerabilities affecting Linux were uncovered this week. These vulnerabilities could potentially allow malicious hackers to gain root privileges. CVE-2010-3904: Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) Protocol Vulnerability The first vulnerability, reported on Tuesday by security firm VSR, arises from a flaw in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol in versions 2.6.30 through 2.6.36-rc8 of the Linux kernel. Known as CVE-2010-3904 , this bug could allow a local attacker to issue specially crafted socket function calls. This would enable the attacker to write arbitrary values into kernel memory, thereby escalating their privileges to root and gaining "superuser" status. The problem exists only in Linux installations where the CONFIG_RDS kernel configuration option is set and there are no restrictions preventing unprivileged users from loading packet family modules. This is the case for most stock distributions, as VSR notes. A proof-of-concept e...