Schneier on Security

AUGUST 17, 2022

This vulnerability was reported to Zoom last December: The exploit works by targeting the installer for the Zoom application, which needs to run with special user permissions in order to install or remove the main Zoom application from a computer. Though the installer requires a user to enter their password on first adding the application to the system, Wardle found that an auto-update function then continually ran in the background with superuser privileges.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2022

Network security is in dire straits. Security teams must defend an expanding attack surface, skilled IT professionals are scarce and threat actors are having a field day. Related: The role of attack surface management. That said, Managed Security Services Providers – MSSPs — are in a position to gallop to the rescue. MSSPs arrived on the scene 15 years ago to supply device security as a contracted service: antivirus, firewalls, email security and the like.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 17, 2022

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of deploying a Bitwarden vault server with the help of Docker containers. The post How to deploy the Bitwarden self-hosted server with Docker appeared first on TechRepublic.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

A new Linux kernel exploitation called Dirty Cred was revealed at last week’s Black Hat security conference. Zhenpeng Lin, a PhD student, and a team of researchers worked on an alternative approach to the infamous Dirty Pipe vulnerability that affected Linux kernel versions 8 and later. Dity Pipe is a major flaw that allows attackers to elevate least-privileged accounts to the maximum level (root) by exploiting the way the kernel uses pipes to pass data.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 17, 2022

The cyberespionage threat actor is aligned with Russian interests and has hit numerous organizations since 2017, aiming at stealing sensitive data. The post Seaborgium targets sensitive industries in several countries appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2022

A China-linked APT group named RedAlpha is behind a long-running mass credential theft campaign aimed at organizations worldwide. Recorded Future researchers attributed a long-running mass credential theft campaign to a Chinese nation-state actor tracked RedAlpha. The campaign targeted global humanitarian, think tank, and government organizations. Experts believe RedAlpha is a group of contractors conducting cyber-espionage activity on behalf of China.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 17, 2022

The high-severity security vulnerability (CVE-2022-2856) is due to improper user-input validation.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

The editors of eSecurity Planet have been giving advice to enterprise security buyers for more than a decade, and for the last five years we’ve been rating the top enterprise cybersecurity products, compiling roughly 50 lists to date on every product imaginable, from networks to endpoints and out to the cloud and beyond. This year, for the first time, we’re ranking the overall best companies and products in 14 of those categories.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

by Xperien CEO Wale Arewa. There are a plethora of data destruction methods, but many of them contain loopholes that render data recoverable. When choosing between erasing versus deleting, one needs to understand why data erasure is essential to ensuring your files are truly gone. Data is growing rapidly and keeping track of all one’s data and keeping it protected is a major challenging.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2022

The cyber risk facing the manufacturing sector is likely greater at this point than ever before. Cybercriminals have demonstrably pivoted. The post Stop the line: Cyber threats facing manufacturing first appeared on Digital Shadows.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

By Aaron Sandeen, CEO, Cyber Security Works. It should be no surprise that ransomware is currently one of the most common attack vectors wreaking havoc on businesses worldwide. Attackers and ransomware operators are constantly looking for more vulnerabilities to weaponize and increase their arsenal of tools, tactics, and techniques. In fact, the FBI’s Internet Crime Report for 2021 recorded 649 ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure establishments, with nearly $50 million reportedly

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Google addressed a dozen vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser, including the fifth Chrome zero-day flaw exploited this year. Google this week released security updates to address a dozen vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser for desktops including an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the wild. The actively exploited flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-2856, is an Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents.

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The State of Security

AUGUST 17, 2022

The world of enterprise cybersecurity is exceedingly dynamic. In a landscape that is ever-changing, security professionals need to combat a class of evolving threat actors by deploying increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques. Today with enterprises operating in an environment that is more challenging than ever, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms play an indispensable […]… Read More.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

Lazarus Group that is being funded by North Korea Military Intelligence is reportedly using signed executable to mimic a Coinbase website in order to attract employees and customers. The aim behind the said social engineering attack is simple, one to trap employees with fake job offers and second to lure customers in signing up the page and then steal their currency.

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SecureList

AUGUST 17, 2022

Black Hat 2022 USA Briefings wrapped up this past week, along with its sister conference DEF CON 30. The DEF CON theme was a “Hacker Homecoming”, and it really was a fun one. Coming back from the COVID hiatus, the conferences were enthusiastically full compared to the 2021 ghost town. Many of the talks were great, fresh content. With the parties and the CTF fun humming along, excellent briefings included Kim Zetter’s insights on “Pre-Stuxnet, Post-Stuxnet: Everything Has

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InfoWorld on Security

AUGUST 17, 2022

ARMO, developer of Kubescape, an open source security platform for Kubernetes , has added two new vulnerability scanning functions to the platform. Code repository scanning and container image registry scanning are the first fruits of an effort to cover more aspects of Kubernetes security, the company said, including integrating with more third-party devops and Kubernetes tools like Lens, Prometheus, Plural, Civo, GitHub Actions, GitLab, and Visual Studio. [ Also on InfoWorld: No one wants to ma

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Threatpost

AUGUST 17, 2022

The North Korean APT is using a fake job posting for Coinbase in a cyberespionage campaign targeting users of both Apple and Intel-based systems.

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Naked Security

AUGUST 17, 2022

Double 0-day exploits - one in WebKit (to break in) and the other in the kernel (to take over). Patch now!

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Speaker: Sierre Lindgren

Fraud is a battle that every organization must face – it’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.” Every organization is a potential target for fraud, and the finance department is often the bullseye. From cleverly disguised emails to fraudulent payment requests, the tactics of cybercriminals are advancing rapidly. Drawing insights from real-world cases and industry expertise, we’ll explore the vulnerabilities in your processes and how to fortify them effectively.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Researchers have discovered a previously undocumented Android dropper, dubbed BugDrop, that’s still under development. Recently, researchers from ThreatFabric discovered a previously undetected Android dropper, dubbed BugDrop, which is under active development and was designed to bypass security features that will be implemented in the next release of the Google OS.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

By MarKeith Allen, Senior Vice-President and GM at Diligent Mission Driven Organizations. For some time, many local government officials did not recognize the risk of behaviors in which they were engaged. Then, 2020 happened and much of that changed. Local governments need security because of the high level of stored sensitive information and number of systems they use to share data with state and federal government programs.

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Naked Security

AUGUST 17, 2022

Don't delay - patch today.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Apple on Wednesday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms to remediate two zero-day vulnerabilities previously exploited by threat actors to compromise its devices.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct has rolled out a new partner program to provide its endpoint and application protection software to managed security service providers (MSSPs) , the company announced Wednesday. The Stratosphere program was initially announced in April, and designed as a simplified channel program that focuses on expected partner margins, instead of set discounts on the product.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2022

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been observed targeting job seekers with macOS malware working also on Intel and M1 chipsets. ESET researchers continue to monitor a cyberespionage campaign, tracked as “Operation In(ter)ception,” that has been active at least since June 2020. The campaign targets employees working in the aerospace and military sectors and leverages decoy job offer documents.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

Google Cloud Wednesday announced the general availability of what it calls “curated detection” for its Chronicle security analysis platform. The new detection feature leverages the threat intelligence that Google gains from protecting its own user base into an automated detection service that covers everything from ransomware , infostealers and data theft to simple misconfigured systems and remote access tools.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 17, 2022

Dynamic business requirements and cloud complexity make managing least privilege a huge challenge. The post Facing the Shift-Left Security Conundrum. A True Story appeared first on Ermetic. The post Facing the Shift-Left Security Conundrum. A True Story appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 17, 2022

Especially if your e-commerce and CMS platforms are integrated, you risk multiple potential sources of intrusion, and the integration points themselves may be vulnerable to attack.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Institute for Security and Technology (IST) recently released a “Blueprint for Ransomware Defense.” The guide includes recommendations of defensive actions for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to protect against and respond to ransomware and other common cyberattacks. It focuses on the identify, protect, respond, and recover format that aligns with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 17, 2022

The state-sponsored group particularly targets organizations working on behalf of the Uyghurs, Tibet, and Taiwan, looking to gather intel that could lead to human-rights abuses, researchers say.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Researchers uncovered a new flaw, dubbed ÆPIC, in Intel CPUs that enables attackers to obtain encryption keys and other secret information from the processors. The ÆPIC Leak ( CVE-2022-21233 ) is the first architecturally CPU bug that could lead to the disclosure of sensitive data and impacts most 10th, 11th and 12th generation Intel CPUs. ÆPIC Leak works on the newest Intel CPUs based on Ice Lake, Alder Lake, and Ice Lake SP and does not rely on hyperthreading enabled. “A potential secur

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