Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

“Today we experienced an exploit on the Ledger Connect Kit, a Javascript library that implements a button allowing users to connect their Ledger device to third party DApps (wallet-connected Web sites). This is a good example of the industry working swiftly together to address security challenges.”

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are the three components of the CIA triad, an information security model designed to protect sensitive information from data breaches. The CIA triad is a widely accepted principle within the industry, and is used in ISO 27001 , the international standard for information security management.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Experts warn that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second bug disclosed in the popular Log4j logging library. American web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare warns that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-45046 , disclosed in the Log4j library.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Multiple flaws in the Log4J library are scaring organizations worldwide while threat actors are already exploiting them. While the experts were warning that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-45046 , disclosed in the Log4j library a third security vulnerability made the headlines.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2023

This Linux version is 64-bit and also uses the Boost library, it uses the Crypto++ library instead of Windows CryptoAPI. The authors used Microsoft Linker version 14.35. In June 2023, the malware analyst rivitna published a sample of the ransomware that is compiled for Linux. Type both names of the files. ” states Avast.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2023

Upon executing one of the infected apps, it loads a heavily obfuscated native library containing a dropper that decrypts and runs malicious code from the app assets. The payload sends information about the infected device to the C2 servers, including the MCC (Mobile Country Code) and MNC (Mobile Network Code).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

Developers of cryptographic libraries can either set the DOIT bit and DIT bit bits, which disable the DMP on some CPUs.” Finally, preventing attackers from measuring DMP activation in the first place, for example by avoiding hardware sharing, can further enhance the security of cryptographic protocols.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2022

The malicious packages, which were reported to PyPI, are: loglib-modules — appears to target developers familiar with the legitimate ‘loglib’ library. pyg-modules — appears to target developers familiar with the legitimate ‘pyg’ library. ” reads the post published by Sonatype. . com:8000/upload.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

With the example limit of 1, encrypt the file twice. Every document library in SharePoint Online and OneDrive is characterized with a set of attributes, including the number of saved versions that can be changed by the site owner can change, regardless of their other roles. Encrypt the file more times than the versioning limit.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 7, 2023

Hartford CyberSecurity Summit Get ready for the very first Hartford Cyber Security Summit, where C-Suite and Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies' critical infrastructures will connect with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Threat actors are already abusing Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library for malicious purposes such as deploying malware. A few hours ago, researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library.

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Lenny Zeltser

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To increase the chances that the distributed security measures will be in effect, we can use a combination of three approaches: Enforce security expectations using technology to prevent insecure choices or actions. Monitor for gaps and take action when the right security steps aren’t taken.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

Drupal developers released security updates for versions 8.8.x x that fix two XSS vulnerabilities affecting the CKEditor library. The Drupal development team has released security updates for versions 8.8.x x that address two XSS vulnerabilities that affect the CKEditor library. the flaws are not easy to exploit.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The analysis of a shellcode requires know-how of which system library and functions will be invoked to help its execution, and depends on the operating system it can be a wide variation of commands from direct calls to an OS functions calls to the hash of the API of certain OS libraries. radare2 is one example of those tools.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2022

Another gang, Night Sky ransomware operation, started exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library to gain access to VMware Horizon systems. The Night Sky ransomware operation started exploiting the Log4Shell flaw (CVE-2021-44228) in the Log4j library to gain access to VMware Horizon systems. trendmrcio[.]com,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

The discovery urges Apple into implementing additional security measures to protect these components, following the approach already adopted by Google to protect multimedia processing libraries. Multimedia processing libraries are used by the modern mobile OS to automatically manage multimedia files (i.e.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

Recently, the Chinese security firm Rising detected a Linux variant of the SFile ransomware that uses the RSA+AES algorithm mode. “For example, the variant captured this time uses nuctech-gj0okyci (nuctech is the English name of Nuctech Technology Co., as the suffix name.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2022

In the example below, q:erpbirel.yax deciphers to d:recovery.lnk.”. The malware uses cmd.exe to read and execute a file stored on the infected external drive, it leverages msiexec.exe for external network communication to a rogue domain used as C2 to download and install a DLL library file. exe to execute a malicious command.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

of the library wipe the content of arbitrary files and replace it with a heart emoji. ” “This code serves as a non-destructive example of why controlling your node modules is important. and bundles the “colors” NPM library, while it doesn’t include the STDOUT console messages. Versions 10.1.1

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 10, 2023

There is also a great deal of tension within financial markets between the requirements on innovation and agility for banking solutions versus the security, compliance and regulatory requirements that CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) and CROs (Chief Risk Officers) need to guarantee for their financial institutions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

“They deliver important security improvements between software updates — for example, improvements to the Safari web browser, the WebKit framework stack, or other critical system libraries. “New Rapid Security Responses are delivered only for the latest version of iOS, iPadOS and macOS — beginning with iOS 16.4.1,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Google experts did not disclose the way the flaws have been exploited in the attacks, for example, it is not clear if they were chained by threat actors. “We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2022

In the example below, q:erpbirel.yax deciphers to d:recovery.lnk.”. The malware uses cmd.exe to read and execute a file stored on the infected external drive, it leverages msiexec.exe for external network communication to a rogue domain used as C2 to download and install a DLL library file. exe to execute a malicious command.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

Malwarebytes researchers observed the use of 3 different themes by the threat actor to hide their skimmer, named after JavaScript libraries: hal-data[.]org/gre/code.js For an example of a client-side attack via JavaScript draining crypto assets, check out this blog from Eliya Stein over at Confiant.” org/data/ ( Logger ) js.g-livestatic[.]com/theme/main.js

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

ISO 27001 says that you must document your information security risk assessment process. An information security risk assessment is a formal, top management-driven process and sits at the core of an ISO 27001 information security management system (ISMS). Clause 6.1.2 Identify risks. Analyse risks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

“In places like a cafe, library, meeting room, or conference lobbies, people might place their smartphone face-down on the table2. For example, an attacker may impersonate the victim to answer a phone call which would eavesdrop the private conversation, or visit a malicious website.” ” concludes the paper.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

Table 2: AutoUpdate.dll Information. The “ AutoUpdate.dll” library then gains persistence by setting the following registry key “ HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunOnceWindowsDefender ”. Table 5: Information about second DLL injected in explorer.exe process. Every 15 minutes, the malware contacts the C2 ( suzuki.]datastore.]pe.]hu

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

To see if any of your online accounts were exposed in previous security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records. Now, however, the expanded compilation – if genuine – “could serve as a goldmine for scammers,” says CyberNews senior information security researcher Mantas Sasnauskas.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

To see if any of your online accounts were exposed in previous security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records. Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online. What’s being sold by the threat actor?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2019

PathAuditor is a shared library that can be loaded into processes using LD_PRELOAD. “For that, we traverse the path and check if any component could be replaced by an unprivileged user, for example if a directory is user-writable. It then hooks all filesystem related libc functions and checks if the access is safe.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

The FileCoder ransomware, for example, searches the “/Users” and “/Volumes” directories by invoking the find command twice, using different paths to enumerate and excluding the README file while searching the “/Users” path.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

Records management (RM) is no longer a siloed discipline; RIM practitioners need to manage records within the entire information landscape of their organizations. The key difference lies in the distinction between the terms “information” and “record.” Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Regsvr32 is a Microsoft-signed command line utility in Windows which allows users to register and unregister DLLs (Dynamic Link Library). By registering a DLL file, information is added to the central directory (Registry) so that it can be used by Windows. Example – regsvr32.exe” Figure 1: Squiblydoo Technique.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

“The archive contains two malicious DLL libraries as well as two legitimate executables that sideload the DLL files. We found multiple archives like this with file names of government entities in Myanmar, for example “COVID-19 Case 12-11-2020(MOTC).rar” ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Microsoft researchers reported that Nation-state actors from China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey are now abusing the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) in the Log4J library in their campaigns. Nation-state actors from China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey are attempting to exploit the Log4Shell vulnerability to in attacks in the wild.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

“Once the user clicks Open, the file is downloaded onto the victim’s machine at the location /Users/<user>/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs then automatically opened via Launch Services. For example, the owner of the file could change the entire byte content and file extension after you agree to open it.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

The researchers noticed that the “Send to Kindle” feature allows Kindle users to send e-books to their devices as email attachments, a behavior that could be potentially exploited for malicious purposes, for example sending a malicious e-book to potential victims.

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