PostgreSQL
AI finds 20-year-old bugs in PostgreSQL and MariaDB
Open-source databases are facing a bit of a memory problem as AI helps surface decades-old buffer overflow issues in widely used components. Security researchers have disclosed a set of high and critical-severity vulnerabilities affecting PostgreSQL and MariaDB, with two bugs reportedly tracing their roots back more than 20 years. At Wiz’s zeroday.cloud hacking event, researchers using the AI-powered security analysis…
36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent implant. "Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository,