What I'm listening to today: "RK 5000 bucket chain excavator - timelapse"

Why does this go so hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UL6ukglbO0

I updated my MC-NBFX serializer (of WCF's NetTcpBinding fame) for comatibility with the latest @kaitai release:

https://github.com/v-p-b/nbfx/commit/bb588dec57e0dfee6db389de70235d9693ea6d6a

It turned out that the release introduced mandatory consistency `_check()`s for serialization (see Release Notes) that force you to take additional hurdles during development, but unit tests paid dividends as I emphasized in the announcement post:

https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2024/10/28/wcf-net.tcp-pentest/

#pentest #UnitTesting

calling svgs an attack vector is a diabolical pun

Here's another crates.io security advisory, again many thanks to Socket!

Malicious crates `finch-rust` and `sha-rust` have been removed; they appeared to try to exfiltrate credentials stored in local files.

Our official announcement: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/05/crates.io-malicious-crates-finch-rust-and-sha-rust/

Socket's blog post with more technical analysis: https://socket.dev/blog/malicious-crate-mimicking-finch-exfiltrates-credentials

#RustLang

Also we're having discussions in Zulip in `t-crates-io
> how to announce takedowns?` about possible changes to these announcements.

I'm looking for a graphics person to turn a portrait into a single color vector image (and possibly a few other tweaks) for later open publication.

DM me if you are interested!

#FediHire #Inkscape #Illustrator #Graphics

Yesterday, after various bogus AI slopped "PoC"s, eventually a functional PoC for the React RCE emerged:
https://github.com/msanft/CVE-2025-55182

We now have a PoC from the reporter of the vulnerability as well:
https://github.com/lachlan2k/React2Shell-CVE-2025-55182-original-poc

#react2shell

🔴 We're going live with Binary Ninja, at 10am EST (3pm GMT / 4pm CET / 11pm SGT). Join us here: https://www.youtube.com/live/nzar2L4GUJ8

#cybersecurity #reverseengineering #binary #softwareengineering

[RSS] Another AI slop story: ChatGPT vs. Human

https://joshua.hu/ai-slop-story-nginx-leaking-dns-chatgpt

This is actually a description of a neat infoleak involving Nginx DNS caching, blue team over-reliance on LLMs is bonus.

"You should be able to talk to your PC"[1]

^ This is a fundamental misunderstanding that reminds me (again) of one of my favorite failed experiments of '90s internet: the online 3D shopping center.[2]

C-levels of the time spared no expense to build a complete VRML model of a shoping center in the browser, where you could walk around, take the escalator for a better view on the virtual fountain or even rent a virtual space for your goods.

What the inventors didn't understand is that of course people don't go to the mall to use the escalator, but to buy stuff.

Online banking, shopping, etc. became popular even over phone-based services because people realized that clicking on stuff is more effective than talking (and walking).

Chatbots are the 3D escalators of todays technology.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/report/822443/microsoft-windows-copilot-vision-ai-assistant-pc-voice-controls-impressions
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20070610120220/https://index.hu/tech/net/plaza0607/

a new "modern" run dialog is being implemented and what the fuck is this

You fail to realize you are on a honeypot.

https://any.run/cybersecurity-blog/lazarus-group-it-workers-investigation/

#LazarusGroup #SituationalAwareness

Since I started to analyze #CVE-2025-55182 (#React, #NextJS #RCE) at work today, I decided to publish my analysis findings so far, given all the fuzz about the vulnerability: https://github.com/msanft/CVE-2025-55182

Feel free to contribute to the search for a proper RCE sink!

I completely missed that @kaitai v0.11 was finally released with serialization support:

https://kaitai.io/news/2025/09/07/kaitai-struct-v0.11-released.html

This is huge and it's great to see that @nlnet money goes to the right places!

The ChatGPT outage the other day made me wonder if we will see DDoS crews hold AI services for ransom. Many of them have deep pockets and being down a day or two would hurt.

NEW: Staffers at notorious spyware maker Intellexa had live remote access to their customers' surveillance systems.

This allowed them to see the personal data of targets hacked with Intellexa's spyware Predator, according to new research based on a leaked training video.

Needless to say, this is bad for several reasons.

http://techcrunch.com/2025/12/04/sanctioned-spyware-maker-intellexa-had-direct-access-to-government-espionage-victims-researchers-say/

New Project Zero issue:

Samsung: QuramDng TrimBounds Opcode leads to out-of-bounds reads

https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/443793212

CVE-2025-21074

New Project Zero issue:

Samsung: QuramDng invalid LossyJpeg component assumption, leading to out-of-bounds write

https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/444346510

CVE-2025-21075

[RSS] DeXRAY v2.36

https://www.hexacorn.com/blog/2025/12/03/dexray-v2-36/

Workforce shortage: a developer changed career to mine stone for Great Leader after infecting his own machine for testing, turning your operation into an online version of the imperialist video game Uplink.

https://www.hudsonrock.com/northkorean

#LummaC2 #ByBit #NorthKorea

This PoC looks convincing enough (I didn't test though!):

https://github.com/msanft/CVE-2025-55182

CVE-2025-55182