In an increasingly interconnected world, supply chain attacks have emerged as a formidable threat, compromising not just individual organizations but the broader digital ecosystem. The web of interdependencies among businesses, especially for software and IT vendors, provides fertile ground for cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities. By targeting one weak link in the supply chain, threat actors can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information and can conduct malicious activities with s
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The term “Looney Tunables” refers to a vulnerability that exists in the GNU C library, which is a core library in Linux-based systems. This library has a hand in many foundational operations like file opening and reading, threading, memory allocation, console printing, etc. The bug was introduced in April of 2021, but the CVE was not posted to NIST until October 3rd, 2023. The vulnerability was discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit in early September of this year.
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