Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

A highly targeted, malware-laced phishing campaign landed in the inboxes of multiple credit unions last week. The missives are raising eyebrows because they were sent only to specific anti-money laundering contacts at credit unions, and many credit union sources say they suspect the non-public data may have been somehow obtained from the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), an independent federal agency that insures deposits at federally insured credit unions.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In Gmail addresses, the dots don't matter. The account "bruceschneier@gmail.com" maps to the exact same address as "bruce.schneier@gmail.com" and "b.r.u.c.e.schneier@gmail.com" -- and so on. (Note: I own none of those addresses, if they are actually valid.). This fact can be used to commit fraud : Recently, we observed a group of BEC actors make extensive use of Gmail dot accounts to commit a large and diverse amount of fraud.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A recent leak compromised the personal data of all 4,557 active students at the California State Polytechnic University Science School. This was not a case of hackers gaining access through illicit means or an accidental exposure of an unsecured database. The data was inadvertently sent in a spreadsheet as an email attachment by a university employee.

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Adam Shostack

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Josh Corman opened a bit of a can of worms a day or two ago, asking on Twitter: “ pls RT: who are the 3-5 best, most natural Threat Modeling minds? Esp for NonSecurity people. @adamshostack is a given. ” (Thanks!). What I normally say to this is I don’t think I’m naturally good at finding replay attacks in network protocols — my farming ancestors got no chance to exercise such talents, and so it’s a skill I acquired.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Godaddy.com , the world’s largest domain name registrar, recently addressed an authentication weakness that cybercriminals were using to blast out spam through legitimate, dormant domains. But several more recent malware spam campaigns suggest GoDaddy’s fix hasn’t gone far enough, and that scammers likely still have a sizable arsenal of hijacked GoDaddy domains at their disposal.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Gregory C. Allen at the Center for a New American Security has a new report with some interesting analysis and insights into China's AI strategy, commercial, government, and military. There are numerous security -- and national security -- implications.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I'm back home! It was an amazing trip in many ways, not least of which was the time it gave both Scott and myself to reflect on workload and managing lives which can be a bit of a never-ending series of commitments. To that effect, I've been backing off Twitter a bit and as I say in this update, I very quickly remembered why after a couple of short engagements yesterday.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Prosecutors in Northern California have charged two men with using unauthorized SIM swaps to steal and extort money from victims. One of the individuals charged allegedly used a hacker nickname belonging to a key figure in the underground who’s built a solid reputation hijacking mobile phone numbers for profit. According to indictments unsealed this week, Tucson, Ariz. resident Ahmad Wagaafe Hared and Matthew Gene Ditman of Las Vegas were part of a group that specialized in tricking or br

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The Wired headline sums it up nicely -- " Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics ": In December, Facebook hired Nathan White away from the digital rights nonprofit Access Now, and put him in the role of privacy policy manager. On Tuesday of this week, lawyers Nate Cardozo, of the privacy watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Robyn Greene, of New America's Open Technology Institute, announced they also are going in-house at Facebook.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The Chinese government-linked hacking group APT10 is continuing its campaign against US and European businesses with increasingly sophisticated tactics and strategies, warn officials from the Department of Homeland Security. The group is thought to be responsible for recent cyber-espionage campaigns against a U.S. law firm, an international apparel company, and Visma , a major Norwegian software firm according to a report from security firms Recorded Future and Rapid7.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A zero-day vulnerability in macOS Mojave can be exploited by malware to steal plaintext passwords from the Keychain. The security expert Linus Henze has disclosed the existence of a zero-day vulnerability in macOS Mojave that can be exploited by malware to steal plaintext passwords from the Keychain. According to Henze, the flaw affects macOS Mojave and earlier versions.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Opinion: Cryptocurrencies are useless. Blockchain solutions are frequently much worse than the systems they replace. Here's why.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Zcash just fixed a vulnerability that would have allowed "infinite counterfeit" Zcash. Like all the other blockchain vulnerabilities and updates, this demonstrates the ridiculousness of the notion that code can replace people, that trust can be encompassed in the protocols, or that human governance is not ncessary.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Vulnerable plugin for a remote management tool gave attackers a way to encrypt systems belonging to all customers of a US-based MSP.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Google patched a critical flaw in its Android OS that allows an attacker to send a specially crafted PNG image file to hack a target device, Opening an image file on your smartphone could allow attackers to hack into your Android device due to three critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-1986, CVE-2019-1987, and CVE-2019-1988. The flaws affect millions of Android devices running versions of the Google OS, ranging from Android 7.0 Nougat to the latest Android 9.0 Pie.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Lawmakers want more information about Facebook’s Project Atlas program, which collected data from teens and sidestepped device makers’ privacy policies.

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Adam Shostack

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I hate reviewing books by people I know, because I am a picky reader, and if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. I also tend to hate management books, because they often substitute jargon for crisp thinking. So I am surprised, but, here I am, writing a review of Kip Boyle’s “ Fire Doesn’t Innovate.” I’m giving little away by saying the twist is that attackers do innovate, and it’s a surprisingly solid frame on which Kip hangs a

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Citrix issues update for encryption weakness dogging the popular security protocol.

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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A security expert discovered a severe Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the popular LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice. The security researcher Alex Inführ discovered a severe remote code execution vulnerability in LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice that could be exploited by tricking victims into opening an ODT (OpenDocument Text) file embedding an event embedded.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Meanwhile, two Iowa researchers built an AI engine they say can spot abusive apps on Twitter months before the service itself.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A third of companies are unprepared for some of the most damaging cyber attacks, such as APTs, insider threats, ransomware and DDoS attacks.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Several airlines send unencrypted links to passengers for flight check-in that could be intercepted by attackers to view passenger and other data, researchers found.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Researchers at Check Point Software Technologies have discovered more than two dozen vulnerabilities in the popular implementations of the remote desktop protocol (RDP). Security experts at Check Point Software Technologies discovered a total of 25 security flaws in the popular implementations of the remote desktop protocol (RDP). 16 that have been rated as “major,” some of the vulnerabilities could be exploited by a malicious RDP server to hack a device running the client RDP software.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

“Password Checkup” isn’t a password manager but a simple tool that warns you if you’re using a password that’s been exposed in data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Data breaches and new privacy regulations are prompting increased spending on IT security products and staff.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. A new type of cyber attack was used for the first time against the Metro Bank, threat actors are leveraging known flaws in the SS7 signaling protocol to intercept the codes sent via text messages to customers to authorize transactions.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Apple has just released iOS 12.1.4, which fixes a group chat FaceTime bug that let callers eavesdrop on targets.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Armed with an impressive bag of exploits and other tricks for propagation, researchers believe the new trojan could be the catalyst for an upcoming, major cyber-offensive.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The number of data breaches dropped overall, but the amount of sensitive records exposed jumped to 446.5 million last year, according to the ITRC.

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