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Six Proto6 Vulnerabilities in protobuf.js Expose Node.js Apps to RCE and DoS

Six Proto6 flaws in protobuf.js enable RCE and DoS attacks; patched in versions 7.5.6 and 8.0.2 to protect Node.js services.

New Shai-Hulud attack trojanizes 19 science-focused PyPI packages

Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud ...
GitHub

JavaScript captcha solver (Node.js): Bypass reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, GeeTest and more

Use the JavaScript captcha solver to automatically bypass any captcha - including reCAPTCHA v2, Invisible, v3, Enterprise, Cloudflare Turnstile, GeeTest sliders, Amazon WAF, FunCaptcha, and both image ...
IEEE

Undefined-oriented Programming: Detecting and Chaining Prototype Pollution Gadgets in Node.js Template Engines for Malicious Consequences

Abstract: Prototype pollution is a type of recently-discovered, impactful vulnerability that affects JavaScript code. One important yet challenging research problem of prototype pollution is how to ...
IEEE

Efficient Node Selection for Coding-based Timely Computation over Heterogeneous Systems

Abstract: In large-scale distributed systems, computational nodes often experience random slowdown which can degrade the performance of timely computation tasks significantly. Recently, coded ...