eBay Using Fault Injection at the Application Level With Code Instrumentation
eBay engineers have been using fault injections techniques to improve the reliability of the notification platform and explore its weaknesses. While fault injection is a common industry practice, eBay attempted a novel approach leveraging instrumentation to bring fault injection within the application level.
Unskilled Cybercriminals May Be Leveraging ChatGPT to Create Malware
In a recent report, Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point warned that cybercriminals are already using ChatGPT to develop malicious programs on the Dark Web. According to Check Point, ChatGPT makes it possible for even unskilled threat actors to create functioning malware.
Critical Control Web Panel Vulnerability Still Under Exploit Months After Patch Available
A 9.8 severity vulnerability in Control Web Panel, previously known as CentOS Web Panel, allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary shell commands through a very simple mechanism. Although readily patched, security organizations are reporting it is under active exploit.
Git 2.39.1 Fixes Two Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities affecting Git’s commit log formatting and .gitattributes parsing in Git versions up to and including Git 2.39 have been recently patched. Both may lead to remote code execution, so users are required to upgrade immediately to Git 2.39.1.