Attacks

04 Mar

Today, CISA released a…

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Today, CISA released a Cybersecurity Advisory, CISA Red Team Shares Key Findings to Improve Monitoring and Hardening of Networks. This advisory describes a red team assessment of a large critical infrastructure organization with a mature cyber posture. CISA is releasing this Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) detailing the red team’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and key findings to provide network defenders proactive steps to reduce the threat of similar activity from malicious cyber actors.     As…

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04 Mar

CISA released three Industrial…

Attacks, Insights, Malware

CISA released three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on February 28, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.      CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations:   ICSA-23-059-01 Hitachi Energy Gateway Station ICSA-23-059-02 Hitachi Energy Gateway Station ICSA-22-139-01 Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-F Series (Update B) Please share your thoughts. We recently updated our anonymous Product Feedback Survey and we’d…

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04 Mar

Today, CISA released Decider, a…

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Today, CISA released Decider, a free tool to help the cybersecurity community map threat actor behavior to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Created in partnership with the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute™ (HSSEDI) and MITRE, Decider helps make mapping quick and accurate through guided questions, a powerful search and filter function, and a cart functionality that lets users export results to commonly used formats. Network defenders, analysts, and researchers can see CISA’s video, fact…

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03 Mar

Chick-fil-A Confirms Accounts Hacked in Months-Long “Automated” Attack

Attacks, Malware

In response to the attack, Chick-fil-A forced customers to reset passwords, froze funds loaded into accounts, and removed any stored payment information from accounts. Chick-fil-A also states that they restored Chick-fil-A One account balances and added rewards to impacted accounts as a way of apologizing. As the accounts were breached using credentials exposed in other data breaches, impacted users must change their passwords at all sites they frequent, especially if they use the same Chick-fil-A…

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03 Mar

Hatch Bank Suffers Data Breach After Third Party Vulnerability Exploited

Attacks, Malware

Hatch Bank has offered to provide free access to credit monitoring services for 12 months to any affected individuals. This attack is just one example of an incident involving a third-party service. Whenever an organization is looking to do business with a third-party company, they should go through their own security audit of the company before signing a contract. This can include paying for a penetration test or requesting recent penetration test results, as well…

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03 Mar

Chinese Threat Actor Deploying New Custom “MQsTTang” Backdoor to Evade Detection

Attacks, Malware

The Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol is a protocol that is known as the standard for IoT messaging and occurs over port 1883. As IoT devices become more and more prevalent in an environment, this typically opens a greater number of potential vulnerabilities to be exploited as IoT devices are often more insecure. From an organizational standpoint, the best way to protect against this campaign would be to limit IoT devices in the environment…

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03 Mar

IOTW: US Marshals Service suffers ransomware attack

Attacks, Data Breaches

The US Marshals Service (USMS), a federal law enforcement agency within the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that compromised confidential information held by the agency.  The attack, which took place on February 17, saw “a ransomware and data exfiltration” attack launched against a “stand-alone USMS system”.  The system compromised in the attack held a number of sensitive documents, including “returns from legal process, administrative…

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03 Mar

Today, the Federal Bureau of…

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) #StopRansomware: Royal Ransomware to provide network defenders tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with Royal ransomware variants. FBI investigations identified these TTPs and IOCs as recently as January 2023. Royal ransomware attacks have spread across numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, but not limited to, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH),…

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03 Mar

Cisco has released a security…

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Cisco has released a security advisory for vulnerabilities affecting the 6800, 7800, 7900, and 8800 Series of Cisco IP Phones. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following advisory and apply the necessary updates. Cisco IP Phone 6800, 7800, 7900, and 8800 Series Web UI Vulnerabilities cisco-sa-ip-phone-cmd-inj-KMFynVcP…

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03 Mar

CISA released five Industrial…

Attacks, Insights, Malware

CISA released five Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on March 2, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.      CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations:   ICSA-23-061-01 Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC Series ICSA-23-061-02 Baicells Nova ICSA-23-061-03 Rittal CMC III Access systems ICSMA-23-061-01 Medtronic Micro Clinician and InterStim Apps ICSA-20-212-04 Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation Engineering Products (Update…

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