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Node2Shell: Node.js Brotli Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A high-severity out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Node.js Brotli decoder (Node2Shell) allows remote code execution when processing malformed compressed data.

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Tim Peck@timpeck11 days ago

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A suspected China-nexus actor, designated SilkParasite, utilizes a modular ecosystem of seven RAT families to target government economic bodies in Central Asia via DLL sideloading and Google Drive-backed C2.

Threat actors are abusing FTP banners as Dead Drop Resolvers (DDRs) to deliver novel RATs, E4del and PINHOLE, using legitimate services like Pinterest and SurveyMonkey for configuration retrieval.

Gunra (also known as Golden Community) is a RaaS operation using a double-extortion model targeting critical infrastructure by exploiting vulnerabilities in Fortinet appliances and leveraging Impacket for lateral movement.

Adversaries are leveraging NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS) to execute malware, which causes Windows to store Prefetch artifacts within secondary streams, effectively hiding execution evidence from standard forensic tools. https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1564/004/

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