CyberSecurity Updates

01 Feb

ESET takes part in global operation to disrupt the Grandoreiro banking trojan

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ESET has collaborated with the Federal Police of Brazil in an attempt to disrupt the Grandoreiro botnet. ESET contributed to the project by providing technical analysis, statistical information, and known command and control (C&C) server domain names and IP addresses. Due to a design flaw in Grandoreiro’s network protocol, ESET researchers were also able to get a glimpse into the victimology. ESET automated systems have processed tens of thousands of Grandoreiro samples. The domain generation…

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01 Feb

Moby and Open Container Initiative Release Critical Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities Affecting Docker-related Components

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Moby and the Open Container Initiative (OCI) have released updates for multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-23651, CVE-2024-23652, CVE-2024-23653, CVE-2024-21626) affecting Docker-related components, including Moby BuildKit and OCI runc. A cyber threat actor could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the advisories from Moby BuildKit (CVE-2024-23651, CVE-2024-23652, CVE-2024-23653) and OCI runc (CVE-2024-21626), as well as the Snyk blog post about these vulnerabilities and apply the necessary updates.

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31 Jan

Cyber: The Swiss army knife of tradecraft

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Digital Security In today’s digitally interconnected world, advanced cyber capabilities have become an exceptionally potent and versatile tool of tradecraft for nation-states and criminals alike Andy Garth 29 Jan 2024  •  , 4 min. read For thousands of years, nations have engaged in espionage, spying on their neighbors, allies, and adversaries. Traditionally, this realm of “espionage” relied heavily on human intelligence, but that started changing in the early 1890s with the advent of technologies like…

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31 Jan

CISA and FBI Release Secure by Design Alert Urging Manufacturers to Eliminate Defects in SOHO Routers

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Today, CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published guidance on Security Design Improvements for SOHO Device Manufacturers as a part of the new Secure by Design (SbD) Alert series that focuses on how manufacturers should shift the burden of security away from customers by integrating security into product design and development. This third publication in CISA’s SbD Alert series examines how manufacturers can eliminate the path threat actors—particularly the People’s Republic of China…

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30 Jan

Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

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On Jan. 9, 2024, U.S. authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022. A graphic depicting how 0ktapus leveraged one victim to attack another. Image…

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30 Jan

New Mitigations to Defend Against Exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Gateways

Attacks, Insights, Malware

CISA is releasing this alert to provide cyber defenders with new mitigations to defend against threat actors exploiting Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Gateways vulnerabilities in Ivanti devices (CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887).   Threat actors are continuing to leverage vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Gateways to capture credentials and/or drop webshells that enable further compromise of enterprise networks. Some threat actors have recently developed workarounds to current mitigations and detection methods and…

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27 Jan

Assessing and mitigating supply chain cybersecurity risks

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Business Security Blindly trusting your partners and suppliers on their security posture is not sustainable – it’s time to take control through effective supplier risk management Phil Muncaster 25 Jan 2024  •  , 5 min. read The world is built on supply chains. They are the connective tissue that facilitates global trade and prosperity. But these networks of overlapping and inter-related companies are increasingly complex and opaque. Most involve the supply of software and digital…

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27 Jan

Blackwood hijacks software updates to deploy NSPX30 – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

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Video The previously unknown threat actor used the implant to target Chinese and Japanese companies, as well as individuals in China, Japan, and the UK 26 Jan 2024 This week, ESET researchers released their findings about an attack where a previously unknown threat actor deployed a sophisticated multistage implant, which ESET named NSPX30, through adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks hijacking update requests from legitimate software such as Tencent QQ, WPS Office, and Sogou Pinyin. Blackwood, the name…

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26 Jan

Who is Alleged Medibank Hacker Aleksandr Ermakov?

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Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. 33-year-old Aleksandr Ermakov allegedly stole and leaked the Medibank data while working with one of Russia’s most destructive ransomware groups, but little more is shared about the accused. Here’s a closer look at the activities of Mr. Ermakov’s alleged hacker…

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