BreachForums seized! One of the world’s largest hacking forums is taken down by the FBI… again

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Law enforcement agencies worldwide have coordinated to take down one of the world’s largest hacker forums, scoring a victory against cybercrime.

BreachForums, a notorious marketplace for stolen data, was seized by the authorities on Wednesday, according to a message on its website.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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USN-6774-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Zheng Wang discovered that the Broadcom FullMAC WLAN driver in the Linux
kernel contained a race condition during device removal, leading to a use-
after-free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could possibly
use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2023-47233)

Sander Wiebing, Alvise de Faveri Tron, Herbert Bos, and Cristiano Giuffrida
discovered that the Linux kernel mitigations for the initial Branch History
Injection vulnerability (CVE-2022-0001) were insufficient for Intel
processors. A local attacker could potentially use this to expose sensitive
information. (CVE-2024-2201)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
– Hardware random number generator core;
– Ext4 file system;
– JFS file system;
– Bluetooth subsystem;
– Networking core;
– IPv4 networking;
– Logical Link layer;
– Netlink;
– Tomoyo security module;
(CVE-2024-26704, CVE-2023-52615, CVE-2024-26805, CVE-2023-52604,
CVE-2024-26614, CVE-2023-52602, CVE-2024-26635, CVE-2024-26622,
CVE-2023-52601, CVE-2024-26801)

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USN-6773-1: .NET vulnerabilities

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It was discovered that .NET did not properly handle memory in it’s
Double Parse routine. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
achieve remote code execution. (CVE-2024-30045)

It was discovered that .NET did not properly handle the usage of a
shared resource. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a dead-lock
condition, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-30046)

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