Enterprise Vulnerabilities
From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database
CVE-2021-40894PUBLISHED: 2022-06-24A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) vulnerability was discovered in underscore-99xp v1.7.2 when the deepValueSearch function is called.
CVE-2022-32997PUBLISHED: 2022-06-24The RootInteractive package in PyPI v0.0.5 to v0.0.19b0 was discovered to contain a code execution backdoor via the request package. This vulnerability allows attackers to access sensitive user information and digital currency keys, as well as escalate privileges.
CVE-2022-32998PUBLISHED: 2022-06-24The cryptoasset-data-downloader package in PyPI v1.0.0 to v1.0.1 was discovered to contain a code execution backdoor via the request package. This vulnerability allows attackers to access sensitive user information and digital currency keys, as well as escalate privileges.
CVE-2022-32999PUBLISHED: 2022-06-24The cloudlabeling package in PyPI v0.0.1 was discovered to contain a code execution backdoor via the request package. This vulnerability allows attackers to access sensitive user information and digital currency keys, as well as escalate privileges.
CVE-2022-33000PUBLISHED: 2022-06-24The ML-Scanner package in PyPI v0.1.0 to v0.1.5 was discovered to contain a code execution backdoor via the request package. This vulnerability allows attackers to access sensitive user information and digital currency keys, as well as escalate privileges.
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11/19/2014 | 2:58:53 PM
Check out the "Touchtone Terrorists". This guy (Pete Dzoghi) made a living telesquatting many of the major courrier services like UPS and FedEx, as well as other organizations and companies. He would pose as various disgruntled customer service agents to ultimately get a huge rise out of the unsuspecting customer who had dialed the wrong number. He recorded these calls and sold them through retail channels.
Although the end result and goal are not the same, the concept has been around for years.