Sat.Jun 18, 2022

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How to Discover Exploitable Intelligence with Attack Surface Management

CyberSecurity Insiders

The attack surface of organizations is nowadays more complex than ever. As more and more businesses increase the number of their digital assets and incorporate new technology to operate, they turn their attack surface into an intricate network. Securing all the systems that include remote employees’ endpoint devices and multi-cloud environments has been a challenge.

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MaliBot Android Banking Trojan targets Spain and Italy

Security Affairs

Malibot is a new Android malware targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy. F5 Labs researchers spotted a new strain of Android malware, named Malibot, that is targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy. The experts documented attacks against multiple banks, including UniCredit, Santander, CaixaBank, and CartaBCC.

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Atlassian Confluence Flaw Being Used to Deploy Ransomware and Crypto Miners

The Hacker News

A recently patched critical security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center products is being actively weaponized in real-world attacks to drop cryptocurrency miners and ransomware payloads.

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US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet

Security Affairs

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced to have shut down the infrastructure associated with the Russian botnet RSOCKS. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced to have shut down the infrastructure associated with the Russian botnet RSOCKS as part of an international police operation that involved law enforcement partners from Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Authorities Shut Down Russian RSOCKS Botnet That Hacked Millions of Devices

The Hacker News

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday disclosed that it took down the infrastructure associated with a Russian botnet known as RSOCKS in collaboration with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K.

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New phishing attack infects devices with Cobalt Strike

Bleeping Computer

Security researchers have noticed a new malicious spam campaign that delivers the 'Matanbuchus' malware to drop Cobalt Strike beacons on compromised machines. [.].

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QNAP NAS devices targeted by surge of eCh0raix ransomware attacks

Bleeping Computer

This week a new series of ech0raix ransomware has started targeting vulnerable QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices according to user reports and sample submissions on the ID-Ransomware platform. [.].

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Over a Dozen Flaws Found in Siemens' Industrial Network Management System

The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about 15 security flaws in Siemens SINEC network management system (NMS), some of which could be chained by an attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems.

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Chrome browser extension lets you remove specific sites from search results

Bleeping Computer

The uBlackList browser extension lets you clean up search results by removing specific sites when searching on Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and other search engines. [.].

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CommitStrip ‘GIT-LFS’

Security Boulevard

via the textual amusements of Thomas Gx , along with the Illustration talents of Etienne Issartia and superb translation skillset of Mark Nightingale - the creators of CommitStrip ! Permalink. The post CommitStrip ‘GIT-LFS’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Beware of Pixels & Trackers on U.S. Healthcare Websites

The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.

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An Alleged Russian Spy Was Busted Trying to Intern at The Hague

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: Firefox adds new privacy protections, a big Intel and AMD chip flaw, and more of the week’s top security news.

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IRA Financial versus Gemini – security questions to ponder from a crypto IRA hack

Security Boulevard

The cryptocurrency world has been the scene of some *wild* stuff lately… and a recent lawsuit filed by IRA Financial Trust against Winkelvossian crypto exchange. The post IRA Financial versus Gemini – security questions to ponder from a crypto IRA hack appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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What You Need to Know About The Role of Patch Management For Cyber Security

CyberSecurity Insiders

If you’re in any software sector, you’re dealing with bugs. But you need patch management when each patch is a piece of software, another place for bugs to hide. Whether you’re maintaining an e-commerce site or a SalesForce CRM integration , you have businesses relying on your software to serve their customers. You need to keep as close to 100% reliability as possible, and patch management is the way to stay there.

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USENIX Enigma 2022 – Dr. Gillian “Gus” Andrews’ ‘Can The Fight Against Disinformation Really Scale?’

Security Boulevard

Our sincere thanks to USENIX ENIGMA for publishing their Presenter’s USENIX Enigma Conference 2022 outstanding content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink. The post USENIX Enigma 2022 – Dr. Gillian “Gus” Andrews’ ‘Can The Fight Against Disinformation Really Scale?’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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3 Essential Measures to Mitigate the Risk from Follina — A New Windows Zero-Day Actively Exploited in the Wild

CyberSecurity Insiders

Mike Walters, President and Co-founder of Action1. Last week the infosec community was hit with news about a new Windows 0-day vulnerability, Follina. Although the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3019 , received a CVSS score of 7.8 on a scale of 10, underestimating its danger would be a huge mistake — and here is why. First of all, the potential scale for exploiting this flaw is shocking — it affects most Windows versions from Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 11, and there are more than 1.4 billi

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USENIX Enigma 2022 – Justin Brookman’s ‘The Global Privacy Control: Exercising Legal Rights At Scale’

Security Boulevard

Our sincere thanks to USENIX ENIGMA for publishing their Presenter’s USENIX Enigma Conference 2022 outstanding content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink. The post USENIX Enigma 2022 – Justin Brookman’s ‘The Global Privacy Control: Exercising Legal Rights At Scale’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Matrix, policy edition

Notice Bored

Inspired by an insightful comment on LinkeDin from an SC 27 colleague on the other side of the world (thanks Lars!), I spent most of last week updating the SecAware security policy templates and ISO27k ISMS materials. The main change was to distinguish conformity from compliance - two similar terms that I admit I had been using loosely and often incorrectly for far too long.

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Hackers Also Have Financial Reporting And Quotas :)

Security Boulevard

Hackers Also Have Financial Reporting And Quotas :). “Chief Hacking Officer: Yevi, where are you at with London bank hack?”. “Yevi, I think we are okay; we should have something by Friday.”. “Chief Hacking Officer: What? You committed that hack two weeks ago!”. “Yevi, yea, well, I hope it will be okay. Security kinda tough get inside.”. “Chief Hacking Officer: When you should have never committed this hack.”.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.