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PerfektBlue: Bluetooth Vulnerabilities in Car Infotainment

🔒 Researchers have identified a chain of four Bluetooth vulnerabilities collectively named PerfektBlue in the OpenSynergy Blue SDK, used in millions of vehicles. An attacker that pairs via Bluetooth can exploit AVRCP flaws to execute code on the head unit and inherit its Bluetooth privileges, potentially accessing microphones, location data, and personal information. Vehicle owners should update head-unit firmware when patches are available and disable Bluetooth when not in use.

GenAI-Enabled Phishing: Risks from AI Web Services

🚨 Unit 42 analyzes how rapid adoption of web-based generative AI is creating new phishing attack surfaces. Attackers are leveraging AI-powered website builders, writing assistants and chatbots to generate convincing phishing pages, clone brands and automate large-scale campaigns. Unit 42 observed real-world credential-stealing pages and misuse of trial accounts lacking guardrails. Customers are advised to use Advanced URL Filtering and Advanced DNS Security and report incidents to Unit 42 Incident Response.

Siemens RUGGEDCOM ROX II Authentication Bypass Advisory

⚠️ Siemens reported an authentication bypass vulnerability in the RUGGEDCOM ROX II family that permits bypassing authentication via the device Built-In-Self-Test (BIST) mode. An attacker with physical serial access could obtain a root shell (CVE-2025-40761); a CVSS v4 base score of 8.6 has been assigned. No patch is available; recommended mitigations include setting secure boot passwords and isolating devices from untrusted networks.

LocalBlox S3 Misconfiguration Exposes 48M Records Publicly

🔓 UpGuard discovered an Amazon S3 bucket owned by LocalBlox that was publicly accessible, exposing a 1.2 TB ndjson archive containing approximately 48 million personal profiles. The dataset aggregated names, addresses, dates of birth, scraped LinkedIn and Facebook content, Twitter handles, and other identifiers used to build psychographic profiles. UpGuard notified LocalBlox and the bucket was secured on February 28, 2018. The incident highlights how a simple cloud misconfiguration can compromise consumer privacy and enable targeted influence at scale.

Misconfigured Amazon S3 Exposed Tea Party Campaign Data

🔓 On August 28, 2018 the UpGuard Cyber Risk team discovered a publicly readable Amazon S3 bucket named tppcf containing roughly 2GB of campaign files belonging to the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund (TPPCF). The data included call lists with full names and phone numbers for about 527,000 individuals, along with strategy documents, call scripts, and marketing assets. UpGuard notified TPPCF on October 1; permissions were briefly set to allow global authenticated users and then removed by October 5. The incident illustrates how cloud misconfiguration can expose sensitive political microtargeting data and create significant privacy risks.

GoDaddy AWS Configuration Data Exposed in Public S3

🔓 The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team discovered a publicly accessible Amazon S3 bucket that contained detailed configuration spreadsheets appearing to describe GoDaddy infrastructure running in the AWS cloud. The files included over 24,000 hostnames and 41 configuration fields per system, plus modeled financials and apparent AWS discounting—information useful for targeted attacks or competitive intelligence. GoDaddy closed the exposure after notification; no credentials were found, but the incident highlights the severe consequences of cloud misconfiguration at scale.

Misconfigured S3 Exposed Tea Party Campaign Assets Online

🔓 UpGuard disclosed that an Amazon S3 bucket belonging to the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund (TPPCF) publicly exposed roughly 2GB of campaign materials and call lists. The files—largely PDFs and images from the 2016 election cycle—contained strategy documents, marketing assets, and call records listing full names, phone numbers and VoterIDs for about 527,000 individuals. Upon notification on October 1, 2018, TPPCF restricted bucket permissions within hours and removed access by October 5. The incident underscores how cloud misconfiguration can turn organizational data into a large-scale privacy breach with political implications.

Mass-Scale Vulnerability in Hikvision Surveillance Cameras

🔓 Over 80,000 Hikvision surveillance cameras remain vulnerable to an 11-month-old command injection flaw tracked as CVE-2021-36260, which NIST rated 9.8/10. Researchers report evidence of criminal activity in Russian dark-web forums where leaked credentials are being sold and exploitation collaborations are solicited. The persistent exposure underscores systemic IoT weaknesses, widespread use of default credentials, and uneven patching practices that leave organizations and critical infrastructure at risk.