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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@timpeck2 days ago

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DPRK-nexus actors, likely Sapphire Sleet, leveraged malicious Rust packages on crates.io to deploy Rustbot, a macOS RAT targeting cloud credentials and cryptocurrency wallets.

SynkLoader is a modular Windows malware family distributed via Microsoft Teams phishing that uses a bundled Python environment and in-memory components to facilitate credential theft, tunneling, and remote access.

Sapphire Sleet (DPRK) compromised popular Rust crates including arrayref and append-only-vec by injecting a malicious typosquatted dependency, proc-macro1, to execute a second-stage backdoor at build time.

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