CyberSecure Specialist

Today, CISA released a cybersecurity advisory detailing lessons learned from an incident response engagement following the detection of potential malicious activity identified through security alerts generated by the agency’s endpoint detection and response tool.  This advisory, CISA Shares Lessons Learned from an Incident Response Engagement, highlights takeaways that illuminate the urgent need for timely patching, comprehensive incident response planning, and proactive threat monitoring to mitigate risks from similar vulnerabilities. The advisory also outlines the tactics,…

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CISA is releasing this Alert to provide guidance in response to a widespread software supply chain compromise involving the world’s largest JavaScript registry, npmjs.com. A self-replicating worm—publicly known as “Shai-Hulud”—has compromised over 500 packages.[i] After gaining initial access, the malicious cyber actor deployed malware that scanned the environment for sensitive credentials. The cyber actor then targeted GitHub Personal Access Tokens (PATs) and application programming interface (API) keys for cloud services, including Amazon Web Services (AWS),…

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SonicWall released a security advisory to assist their customers with protecting systems impacted by the MySonicWall cloud backup file incident. SonicWall’s investigation found that a malicious actor performed a series of brute force techniques against their MySonicWall.com web portal to gain access to a subset of customers’ preference files stored in their cloud backups. While credentials within the files were encrypted, the files also included information that actors can use to gain access to customers’…

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