Blog Inforeseau.com – Alexandre Blanc Cyber Security

5G network hosted in the cloud, no internet, no phone ! So smart ! And I ended on TV, This week in cyber

Yes, someone smart thought that it was a good idea to put the 5G management platform in the cloud, so we are making is super easy for foreign actors, already targeting the big cloud players, to fully disrupt the country communication capabilities, just by taking down one infrastructure.

It seems that common sense jumped from the boat a while ago, where the shiny goal of integral communication spying made them forget the first goal of communication infrastructure, ensuring resilience and coordination in case of incident.

When the cloud fall, you won’t be able to call for support, because phone networks will fall with it. My 2 cents.

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Side note, don’t forget to follow VARS Corporation as well, I do share some intelligence on it, along with the team, …. yes half of the posts in French, but hey, don’t you enjoy my french accent ?!

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Another note, I had my first TV News apparition this week, in Quebec, in French, and that was cool ! Alex on TV looks like this (oh boy, I was stressed ) :

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Now, this week in 63 points, for you to remain aware as usual :

1 – James W from the FBI shared a great list for you to opt out from people tracking search engines ! Fast And The Furious: Opting Out Of People Search Engines, Privacy And Digital Exhaust

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2 – There is a festival of infected NPM repos lately ! Malware Discovered in Popular NPM Package, ua-parser-js

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3 – Skimmer injected on the site and more than 32k persons impacted- SCUF Gaming store hacked; Customer data exposed

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4 – Do not take the data if you can’t protect it, like the cloud pretty much – Criminal Hacker sells the data for millions of Moscow drivers for $800

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5 – When you go on youporn using private browsing, your ISP sees it all, and does resell all this info to whoever is willing to pay for it – FTC: ISPs collect and monetize far more user data than you’d think

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6 – Hacked criminal hackers ! Feds Reportedly Hacked REvil Ransomware Group and Forced it Offline , but, soon after, the group claimed it was only a small part of the « sub contractors »…

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7 – Cyber conflict being more politic it seems. Their main goal was money, some in there were state sponsored spying, but now a call to action against the US. We’ll see, not sure there is any real coordination between challengers in crime. Groove ransomware calls on all extortion gangs to attack US interests

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8 – CISCO patch time – Cisco SD-WAN Security Bug Allows Root Code Execution

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9 – The power of the cloud, 24/7 spying. And yet people pay to place 24/7 spying devices, bugging their homes themselves. I found an Amazon folder with thousands of audio recordings from my home gadgets

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10 – Interesting review of previous incident, most likely caused by nature, but, showing the potential impact of the same failure triggered by a cyber attack. When Cyber Mimics Nature – How Cyber Attacks Can Cause Global Environmental Catastrophes.

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11 – Never pay ransom, don’t finance crime, and report to law enforcement, they might have a decryptor, so do it right – BlackMatter ransomware victims quietly helped using secret decryptor

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12 – The cloud will be destroyed, I hope your DRP (disaster recovery plan), and risk register have considered this. SolarWinds hackers are going after cloud, managed and IT service providers.

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13 – It’s discourse patch time ! CISA urges admins to patch critical Discourse code execution bug.

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14 – How do you reduce your attack surface ? Hackers Exploited Popular BillQuick Billing Software to Deploy Ransomware

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15 – You are hacked, I’m hacked, question is, how much of you was on this device ? NYT Journalist Repeatedly Hacked with Pegasus after Reporting on Saudi Arabia

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16 – AI is also powering madness – Despite spending millions on bot mitigation, 64% of organizations lost revenue due to bot attacks

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17 – The truth comes out, as often in the big tech world, deception is king, abuses and betrayals, in an unlimited rush toward money. Explainer: What are the Facebook Papers?

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18 – The ICT and industrial security podcast interestingly start to speak about patching automation. Automating vulnerability handling – a promising new standard: CSAF | Episode 70

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19 – You can’t play with your security posture ! It goes bad. CONTI now positionnned as client access service broker ! Encrypting, stealing, and selling access to your network !

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20 – In your browser, the more add-on you install, the bigger your supply chain is, and the bigger your attack surface is. Mozilla blocks malicious add-ons installed by 455K Firefox users

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21 – Don’t fall for the scam ! FOMO (fear of missing out) will get you hacked or trapped – Millions of Android users targeted in subscription fraud campaign

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22 – Australia, what are you doing ?!! Australia drafts Online Privacy Bill to bolster data security – Sounds right, except they scoped applicability to almost nothing !

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23 – We should assume anyway nowadays that the network is no longer the perimeter, at least the wireless network, and security must be embedded in endpoint from an enterprise standpoint – Wardrivers Can Still Easily Crack 70% of WiFi Passwords

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24 – No attacker said ever « this is out of scope » – Gas Stations in Iran Downed by Cyberattack

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25 – EMOTET reborn as Squirrelwaffle – Spammers use Squirrelwaffle malware to drop Cobalt Strike – I remember by then using Squirrelmail webmail, it was so quite, but here, despite a terrific breakfast stealer name, squirrelwaffle doesn’t taste very good !

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26 – Threat actors are really focusing on cloud providers and IT service providers – Lazarus Attackers Turn to the IT Supply Chain

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27 – Patch management of your WordPress site and plugins is critical – Brutal WordPress plugin bug allows subscribers to wipe sites

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28 – One less, already something. Other marketplaces will certainly see a surge in traffic – DoJ & Europol Arrest 150 in Disruption of DarkNet Drug Operation

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29 – US federal investigators today raided the Fla. offices of PAX Technology, a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices – Front shop takedown. Know your enemies.

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30 – Turn off connectivity if you don’t need it ! Protect your device from both security and privacy standpoint – Tracking Mobile Devices by Analyzing Bluetooth Transmissions

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31 – Always verify and then trust, each time – Attackers Hijack Craigslist Emails to Bypass Security, Deliver Malware

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32 – Will your security controls be effective against such attacks ? FBI: Ranzy Locker ransomware hit at least 30 US companies this year

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33 – Never properly understood, the cloud shared responsibility model is still an issue leading to major cloud abuses and privacy issues – Public Clouds & Shared Responsibility: Lessons from Vulnerability Disclosure

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34 – Aside of following me on linkedin : « Top 13 Can’t-Miss Cybersecurity Awareness Tips« 

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35 – Security posture must be adjusted to your threats. You must have MFA everywhere, and using authenticator apps will be good for you. Twitter employees required to use security keys after 2020 hack.

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36 – it’s apple patch time again ! (if you haven’t already) – Apple Patches Critical iOS Bugs; One Under Attack

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37 – Babuk decryption key available – Babuk ransomware decryptor released to recover files for free

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38 – Supply chain risk management at country level is tricky. Especially when most of your products are made in China – US bans China Telecom Americas over national security risks

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39 – it’s an NPM supply chain infection festival lately ! Malicious NPM libraries install ransomware, password stealer

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40 – Highly regulated, the specifics of this verticals raise interesting challenges – SECURITY INTELLIGENCE REPORT – CISO Point of View : Analysis of Storage & Backup Security in the Financial Services & Banking Sector

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41 – Another decryptor available ! Free decryptor released for Atom Silo and LockFile ransomware

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42 – it’s adobe patch time once again – Adobe’s Surprise Security Bulletin Dominated by Critical Patches

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43 – The so called « grief » ransomware group published some sample content of claimed to be internal NRA files – Russian Ransomware Gang Claims to Have Hacked the NRA

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44 – Well put about how to handle ransomware situation – You’ve Just Been Ransomed … Now What?

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45 – The cloud is infected and this new threat comes with official apps ! New AbstractEmu malware roots Android devices, evades detection – Comes from the so protected playprotect supposedly cloud protected stuff.

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46 – The cloud is infected and it poisons Internet, or vice versa, anyhow, you can’t trust anything you see online without due diligence first – Ransomware gangs use SEO poisoning to infect visitors

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47 – A free pass to COVID ? sounds exciting no ? EU investigating leak of private key used to forge Covid passes

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48 – but, but, but, butt cloud leaked again ! PII feist ! Sensitive data of 400,000 German students exposed by API flaw

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49 – Undetected so far, in memory malware, talking with C2C and loading needed remote modules – New Wslink Malware Loader Runs as a Server and Executes Modules in Memory

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50 – Algorithms are not the only problem of social media, people are a big one too – Facebook Removed The News Feed Algorithm In An Experiment. Then It Gave Up (now weirdly called Meta)

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51 – spyware patch time – Emergency Google Chrome update fixes zero-days used in attacks

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52 – Nothing new, everything connected is a target – All Sectors Are Now Prey as Cyber Threats Expand Targeting

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53 – A first step toward security by design – Top Hardware Weaknesses List Debuts

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54 – Privileges escalation, means that this can only be exploited after the initial access phase – All Windows versions impacted by new LPE zero-day vulnerability

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55 – Very interesting, Amazon seems to reach a limit and benefits are collapsing. Unexpected – Amazon delivers big earnings miss, Jassy warns Q4 will bring ‘several billion dollars of additional costs’

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56 – connected=hacked – Critical Polygon Blockchain Vulnerability Could Allow Withdrawing Huge Amounts

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57 – The less apps you install, the smaller the attack surface, the safer you are – Android spyware spreading as antivirus software in Japan

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58 – Yet another WordPress plugin vulnerability – WordPress plugin bug impacts 1M sites, allows malicious redirects

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59 – Microsoft decided to eliminate all challengers on any field by taking 100% control over any features requiring third party – Microsoft: Windows web content filtering now generally available

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60 – Cloud dependency is awful – Google Chromebooks failing to enroll due to network issue

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61 – Moving toward cloud systems – Hive ransomware now encrypts Linux and FreeBSD systems

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62 – Use the details of this article as threat intelligence and understand how crime operates – Police arrest hackers behind over 1,800 ransomware attacks

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63 – Season scams are always around – What’s the Phishing Scam Equivalent of Your Favorite Halloween Costume?

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BTW, I always link to LinkedIn article shares, because I usually add a lot of complementary links in comments allowing to get better coverage.

That would be about it ! Have a good weekend all !