18 Jan, 2025

Bitcoin ATM firm Byte Federal hacked via GitLab flaw, 58K users exposed

US Bitcoin ATM operator Byte Federal has disclosed a data breach that exposed the data of 58,000 customers after its systems were breached using a GitLab vulnerability. Byte Federal is the largest US operator of Bitcoin ATMs across the United States, with over 1,200 ATMs located in forty-two states, allowing people to exchange cash for cryptocurrency. […]

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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Since last night, GeekFeed has received numerous messages from people who received replies to their old Internet Archive removal requests, warning that the organization has been breached as they did […]

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GitLab warns of critical arbitrary branch pipeline execution flaw

GitLab has released security updates to address multiple flaws in Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), including a critical arbitrary branch pipeline execution flaw. The vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2024-9164, allows unauthorized users to trigger Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines on any branch of a repository. CI/CD pipelines are automated processes that perform tasks […]

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GitLab releases fix for critical SAML authentication bypass flaw

GitLab has released security updates to address a critical SAML authentication bypass vulnerability impacting self-managed installations of the GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a single sign-on (SSO) authentication protocol that allows users to log in across different services using the same credentials. The flaw, tracked as […]

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GitLab warns of critical pipeline execution vulnerability

GitLab has released critical updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, the most severe of them (CVE-2024-6678) allowing an attacker to trigger pipelines as arbitrary users under certain conditions. The release is for versions 17.3.2, 17.2.5, and 17.1.7 for both GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), and patches a total of 18 security issues as part of the bi-monthly […]

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