CyberSecure Specialist

29 Jun

CISA Adds Eight Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

Attacks, Insights, Malware

CISA has added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2019-17621 D-Link DIR-859 Router Command Execution Vulnerability CVE-2019-20500 D-Link DWL-2600AP Access Point Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2021-25487 Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability CVE-2021-25489 Samsung Mobile Devices Improper Input Validation Vulnerability CVE-2021-25394 Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Vulnerability CVE-2021-25395 Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Vulnerability CVE-2021-25371 Samsung Mobile Devices Unspecified Vulnerability CVE-2021-25372 Samsung Mobile Devices Improper Boundary Check Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack…

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29 Jun

2023 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

Attacks, Insights, Malware

The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and operated by MITRE, has released the 2023 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses. The CWE Top 25 is calculated by analyzing public vulnerability data in the National Vulnerability Data (NVD) for root cause mappings to CWE weaknesses for the previous two calendar years. These weaknesses lead to serious vulnerabilities in software. An attacker can often…

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29 Jun

CISA Releases Nine Industrial Control Systems Advisories

Attacks, Insights, Malware

CISA released nine Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on June 29, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.  ICSA-23-180-01 Delta Electronics InfraSuite Device Master ICSA-23-180-02 Schneider Electric EcoStruxure ICSA-23-180-03 Ovarro TBox RTUs ICSA-23-180-04 Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-F Series ICSMA-23-180-01 Medtronic Paceart Optima System ICSA-19-120-01 Rockwell Automation CompactLogix 5370 (Update A) ICSA-20-245-01 Mitsubishi Electric Multiple Products (Update F) ICSA-22-333-05 Mitsubishi Electric FA Engineering Software (Update B) ICSA-23-171-02 Enphase Installer…

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29 Jun

Interested in $10,000,000? Ready to turn in the Clop ransomware crew?

Information

by Naked Security writer The latest high-profile cybercrime exploits attributed to the Clop ransomware crew aren’t your traditional sort of ransomware attacks (if “traditional” is the right word for an extortion mechanism that goes back only to 1989). Conventional ransomware attacks are where your files get scrambled, your business gets totally derailed, and a message appears telling you that a decryption key for your data is available… …for what is typically an eye-watering amount of…

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28 Jun

Venn Software Snags $29M to build MDM for Laptops Technology

Information, News

Venn Software, a New York startup building an MDM-like solution for laptops, has attracted $29 million in early stage funding as investors continue to bet on cybersecurity companies protecting the remote workforce. Venn said the Series A financing was led by NewSpring and provides capital for the company to make MDM for laptops a reality and provide a less costly new alternative to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Venn is pitching a Secure Enclave product that…

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28 Jun

CISA and NSA Release Joint Guidance on Defending Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Environments

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Today, CISA, together with the National Security Agency (NSA), released a Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) to provide recommendations and best practices for organizations to strengthen the security of their CI/CD pipelines against the threat of malicious cyber actors (MCAs). Recognizing the various types of security threats that could affect CI/CD operations and taking steps to defend against each one is critical in securing a CI/CD environment. Organizations will find in this guide a list of…

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28 Jun

School’s out for summer, but it’s not time to let your cyber guard down

Information

The beginning of the summer break is the perfect time for parents to remind their children about the importance of safe online habits The sun’s out, and so is school. But despite our best efforts, the chances are that our children will spend the coming summer holiday period glued to their devices. Depending on their age, protecting them can a difficult balancing act between respecting their privacy and independence and ensuring they heed our warnings.…

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27 Jun

U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison

Information, Insights

Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison. That may seem like harsh punishment for a brief and very public cyber joy ride. But O’Connor also pleaded guilty in a separate investigation involving a years-long spree of cyberstalking and cryptocurrency theft enabled by “SIM swapping,” a crime…

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27 Jun

SEC notice to SolarWinds CISO and CFO roils cybersecurity industry

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has roiled the cybersecurity industry by putting executives of SolarWind on notice that it may pursue legal action for violations of federal law in connection with their response to the 2020 attack on the company’s infrastructure that affected thousands of customers in government agencies and companies globally. Current and former employees and officers of the company, including the chief financial officer (CFO) and chief information security officer (CISO), have…

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