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Cybersecurity Digest for 17 July 2024: Today we discuss: MuddyWater’s Latest Cyber Onslaught and a sneaky backdoor!

AT&T Pays Hackers – Was it Worth it?

An Update on RiteAid’s Data Breach

SEXi Ransomware group rebrands…. Meet APT INC!

mSpy Breach

SYS01 Stealer Malware: Malvertising across Social Media

15 Million Trello Email Addresses Leaked

Google’s 23 Billion  to acquire Wiz

Octo Tempest, AKA Scattered Spider adds new ransomware payloads

CISA adds one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Catalog

Articles Referenced in the Show in the order they appear:

CheckPoint Research Bugsleep Backdoor:

New BugSleep Backdoor Deployed in Recent MuddyWater Campaigns - Check Point Research

AT&T Paid Threat Actor:

AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records | WIRED

RiteAid Update: Rite Aid says June data breach impacts 2.2 million people (bleepingcomputer.com) SEXi Rebranding:

SEXi ransomware rebrands to APT INC, continues VMware ESXi attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

Mspy Data Breach:

Mspy data breach exposes millions of customers' information (candid.technology)

Malvertising in Facebook, LinkedIn, and YoutTube: Facebook Malvertising Epidemic – Unraveling a Persistent Threat: SYS01 (trustwave.com)

Malvertising_Research.pdf (trustwave.com)

Trello Leak:

Email addresses of 15 million Trello users leaked on hacking forum (bleepingcomputer.com)

Wiz Acquisition:

Exclusive | Google Near $23 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Wiz - WSJ

Microsoft Tweet Thread: Microsoft Threat Intelligence on X

CISA KEV Addition: NVD - CVE-2024-36401 (nist.gov)

Today’s Episode Topics for 15 July 2024

• AT&T Data Leaks
• 70%+ of public facing servers could be Vulnerable
• Apple warns iPhone customers of spyware in certain countries
• Netgear patches a Stored XSS Vulnerability
• A look at CrystalRay
• RiteAid hit with a data breach
• Disney’s Internal Slack possibly leaked
• Is your organization able to keep up with hackers?

Articles Referenced in the Show in the order they appear: AT&T Data Leak:

AT&T 8-K Filing

Exim Vulnerability:

Censys Exim MTA Vulnerability

Apple Warns of Spyware:

Apple warns iPhone users in 98 countries of spyware attacks | TechCrunch

NSO – Darknet Diaries

Netgear Vulnerability:

Netgear Security Advisory

Sysdig Report on CRYSTALRAY:

CRYSTALRAY: Inside the Operations of a Rising Threat Actor Exploiting OSS Tools | Sysdig

RiteAid Data Breach:

Rite Aid confirms data breach after June ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com)

Disney Internal Slack possibly leaked: NullBulge's Post

Vx-underground's Post

Cloudfare Applicattion Security Report 2024:

Application Security report: 2024 update (cloudflare.com)

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This week we talk about 

• Microsoft patches 140+ vulnerabilities including 2 zero days, in Patch Tuesday;
• Adobe patches critical issues in several of its products,
• 10 Billion Passwords leaked,
• 39,000 Ticket master tickets leaked,
• Chinese APT 40 hiijack routers
• Hackers are Targeting Wordpress plugins,  
• A new attack bypasses RADIUS authentication
• CISA adds 3 new CVEs to its KEV
• and more in this episode

Articles Mentioned In Order they appear in the Show:  July 2024 Security Updates - Release Notes - Security Update Guide - Microsoft

Windows MSHTML zero-day used in malware attacks for over a year (bleepingcomputer.com)

Resurrecting Internet Explorer: Threat Actors Using Zero-day Tricks in Internet Shortcut File to Lure Victims (CVE-2024-38112) - Check Point Research

Whispers of Atlantida: Safeguarding Your Digital Treasure | Rapid7 Blog

Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) RockYou2024: 10 billion passwords leaked in the largest compilation of all time | Cybernews

Hackers leak 39,000 print-at-home Ticketmaster tickets for 154 events (bleepingcomputer.com)

Advance Auto Parts data breach impacts 2.3 million people (bleepingcomputer.com) APT40 Advisory | Cyber.gov.au

$3,094 Bounty Awarded and 150,000 WordPress Sites Protected Against Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in Modern Events Calendar WordPress Plugin (wordfence.com)

VU#456537 - RADIUS protocol susceptible to forgery attacks. (cert.org)

BLAST RADIUS Palo Alto Networks Patches Critical Flaw in Expedition Migration Tool (thehackernews.com) GitLab Critical Patch Release: 17.1.2, 17.0.4, 16.11.6 | GitLab

Notable CISA KEV Additions:

NVD - CVE-2024-23692 (nist.gov) NVD - CVE-2024-38080 (nist.gov) NVD - CVE-2024-38112 (nist.gov)

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Security Digest for 6 August 2024:

Podcast Requested Feedback: https://forms.gle/w2RB5DRzbbvu3ziS7 Notable News: Over 20,000 Ubiquiti Cameras and Routers are Vulnerable to Amplification Attacks and Privacy Risks - Check Point Blog

BITS and Bytes: Analyzing BITSLOTH, a newly identified backdoor — Elastic Security Labs

Panamorfi: A New Discord DDoS Campaign (aquasec.com)

4.6 Million Voter and Election Documents Exposed Online by Technology Contractor (vpnmentor.com)

StormBamboo Compromises ISP to Abuse Insecure Software Update Mechanisms | Volexity

Israeli hacker group takes responsibility for collapse of Wi-Fi in Ira - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

TgRAT malware returns with a Linux variant (broadcom.com)

Linux kernel impacted by new SLUBStick cross-cache attack (bleepingcomputer.com)

Fighting Ursa Luring Targets With Car for Sale (paloaltonetworks.com)

Keytronic reports losses of over $17 million after ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com)

Justice Department sues TikTok for alleged violations of children’s privacy (therecord.media)

Prevalent Patches: Critical Bitdefender Patch for GravityZone Update Server: CVE-2024-6980 Could Lead to SSRF Attacks - SOCRadar® Cyber Intelligence Inc. SonicWall Discovers Second Critical Apache OFBiz Zero-Day Vulnerability | SonicWall CISA Corner: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog | CISA

NVD - CVE-2018-0824 (nist.gov)

Security Digest for 2 August 2024:

Podcast Requested Feedback: https://forms.gle/w2RB5DRzbbvu3ziS7 Notable News: Certificate Revocation Incident | DigiCert 1910322 - DigiCert: Random value in CNAME without underscore prefix (mozilla.org) DigiCert Status - DigiCert Revocation Incident (CNAME-Based Domain Validation) Azure status history | Microsoft Azure Unmasking the SMS Stealer: Targeting Several Countries with Deceptive Apps - Zimperium Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 Ransomware Report I Threat Research Cost of a data breach 2024 | IBM OneDrive Pastejacking (trellix.com) Threat actor impersonates Google via fake ad for Authenticator | Malwarebytes BingoMod: The new android RAT that steals money and wipes data | Cleafy Labs Who Knew? Domain Hijacking is So Easy | Infoblox Ducks Now Sitting (DNS): Internet Infrastructure Insecurity - Eclypsium | Supply Chain Security for the Modern Enterprise

Threat Actor Abuses Cloudflare Tunnels to Deliver RATs | Proofpoint US

Ransomware Details | OneBlood Prevalent Patches: Security notices | Ubuntu Red Hat Product Errata - Red Hat Customer Portal CISA Corner:

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog | CISA CISA Releases Nine Industrial Control Systems Advisories | CISA CISA Names First Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer | CISA

Security Digest for 30 July 2024:

Podcast Requested Feedback: https://forms.gle/w2RB5DRzbbvu3ziS7 Notable News: WhatsApp for Windows lets Python, PHP scripts execute with no warning (bleepingcomputer.com)

PKfail: Untrusted Platform Keys Undermine Secure Boot on UEFI Ecosystem (binarly.io) SupplyChainAttacks/PKfail/ImpactedDevices.md at main · binarly-io/SupplyChainAttacks · GitHub Malicious Python Package Targets macOS Developers (checkmarx.com)

SeleniumGreed Cryptomining Campaign Exploiting Grid Services | Wiz Blog Scammer Abuses Microsoft 365 Tenants, Relaying Through Proofpoint Servers to Deliver Spam Campaigns | Proofpoint US HealthEquity says data breach impacts 4.3 million people (bleepingcomputer.com) Two-Step Phishing Campaign Exploits Microsoft Office Forms (perception-point.io) Over 1 Million websites are at risk of sensitive information leakage (salt.security) TrustedSec | Specula - Turning Outlook Into a C2 With One Registry… Ransomware operators exploit ESXi hypervisor vulnerability for mass encryption | Microsoft Security Blog Support Content Notification - Support Portal - Broadcom support portal Prevalent Patches: Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Series, Jetson Xavier NX, Jetson TX1, Jetson TX2 Series (including Jetson TX2 NX), and Jetson Nano (including Jetson Nano 2GB) - July 2024 | NVIDIA (custhelp.com) Apple security releases - Apple Support

CISA Corner: NVD - CVE-2024-4879  (nist.gov) NVD - CVE-2024-5217 (nist.gov) NVD - CVE-2023-45249 (nist.gov) Siemens SICAM Products | CISA Positron Broadcast Signal Processor | CISA