Malware

08 Mar

Hard-coded secrets up 67% as secrets sprawl threatens software supply chain

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

The number of detected hard-coded secrets increased by 67% last year compared to 2021, with 10 million new secrets discovered in public GitHub commits in 2022. That’s according to GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2023 report. It found that hard-coded secrets and accelerating secrets sprawl (storing secrets in many different places) are threatening the security of software supply chains. Hard-coded secrets pose significant security risks because they are often stored in plain text, making it…

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08 Mar

CISA has added three new…

Attacks, Insights, Malware

CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2022-28810 Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2022-33891 Apache Spark Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2022-35914 Teclib GLPI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. Note: To view other newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog, click on the arrow in…

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08 Mar

How CISOs can do more with less in turbulent economic times

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

CISO Nicole Darden Ford has become accustomed to doing more with less since the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly upended her company’s workforce. “I got off a plane from India and saw all these people with masks at the airport in Washington, DC, and I wondered what was going on. I went straight to the office where my CEO and CIO explained our new reality: We were going into quarantine and we had less than a week…

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07 Mar

Trusted Directory Abused To Perform UAC Bypass And Deliver Malware

Attacks, Malware

Binary Defense and SentinelOne advise system administrators to set Windows UAC to “Always Notify,” with the caveat that this may be excessively intrusive for some organizations. For trusted filesystem paths with trailing spaces, administrators should keep an eye out for suspicious file creations and process executions, especially in directories containing the string “Windows”. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/old-windows-mock-folders-uac-bypass-used-to-drop-malware/

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07 Mar

PoC Released for Critical Microsoft Word RCE Bug

Attacks, Malware

There is no indication that this attack is being carried out in the wild. Microsoft has addressed the issue with a patch but warned that there are other workarounds if needed. For anyone that cannot apply the fix for some reason, Microsoft recommends reading all emails in plain text. Another workaround is to enable the Microsoft Office File Block Policy, which prevents Office apps from opening RTF documents from unknown origins. To do this, the…

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07 Mar

Acer Breach Exposes 160GB of Data

Attacks, Malware

This incident follows a series of Acer security breaches that happened over the previous few years. The REvil ransomware gang attacked the computer manufacturer in March 2021, demanding a record-breaking $50,000,000 ransom payment for a decryptor. The hacker group Desorden gained access to Acer’s after-sales systems in India. As a result, over 60GB of data was compromised, including information about thousands of customers, retailer records, and distributors. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/acer-confirms-breach-after-160gb-of-data-for-sale-on-hacking-forum/

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07 Mar

Attack campaign uses PHP-based infostealer to target Facebook business accounts

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Over the past year, a group of attackers has targeted Facebook business account owners by spreading information stealing malware through malicious Google ads or fake Facebook profiles. The infection chain uses DLL sideloading via legitimate apps, as well as self-contained executable files written in various programming languages such as Rust, Python, and PHP. “We have seen SYS01stealer attacking critical government infrastructure employees, manufacturing companies, and other industries,” researchers from security firm Morphisec said in a…

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07 Mar

Akamai releases new threat hunting tool backed by Guardicore capabilities

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Akamai on Tuesday launched Akamai Hunt, a visibility tool that uses the infrastructure of microsegmentation platform Guardicore to allow customers to identify and remediate threats and risks in their cloud environments. Akamai acquired Guardicore in October 2022 for about $600 million. Akamai Hunt combines Akamai’s historic data with Guardicore’s network segmentation and visualization capabilities to help identify and eliminate threats. “An earlier version of Hunt was available through Guardicore to a limited set of customers,”…

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07 Mar

What is zero trust? A model for more effective security

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Security leaders are embracing zero trust, with the vast majority of organizations either implementing or planning to adopt the strategy. The 2022 State of Zero-Trust Security report found that 97% of those surveyed either have or plan to have a zero-trust initiative in place within 18 months. In fact, the percentage of organizations with zero trust already in place more than doubled in just one year, jumping from 24% in 2021 to 55% in the…

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06 Mar

PayPal sued for negligence in data breach that affected 35,000 users

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

A pending class action lawsuit accuses online payments giant PayPal of failing to adequately safeguard the personal information of its users, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft and related ills at the hands of the unidentified perpetrators of a data breach that occurred late last year. Nearly 35,000 people were affected by the cyberattack, which used previously compromised usernames and passwords to gain access to PayPal’s systems. PayPal’s notice to users whose personal information was…

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