A week in security (April 4 – 10)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Why data protection and privacy are not the same, and why that matters: Lock and Code S03E09 YouTube channels of Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Harry Styles, and other musicians compromised Successful operations against Russian Sandworm and Strontium groups targeting...

Why data protection and privacy are not the same, and why that matters: Lock and Code S03E09

Theres a mistake commonly made in the United States that a law that was passed to help people move their healthcare information to a new doctor or provider was actually passed to originally implement universal, wide-ranging privacy controls on that same type of information. This is the mixup with...

The vulnerability in the optimization application for Lenovo Thin Installer, related to insufficient protection of service data, allows a malicious actor to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the optimization application for Lenovo Thin Installer is related to insufficient protection of operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause service failures...

3 strategies to launch an effective data governance plan

Aware of the potential risks of sensitive data if not managed properly, you’ve undertaken a data discovery process to learn where it’s all stored. You’ve classified this sensitive data—confidential information like credit card numbers and home addresses collected from customers, prospects,...

3 strategies to launch an effective data governance plan

Aware of the potential risks of sensitive data if not managed properly, you’ve undertaken a data discovery process to learn where it’s all stored. You’ve classified this sensitive data—confidential information like credit card numbers and home addresses collected from customers, prospects,...

SUSE-SU-2022:1051-1 Security update for salt

This update for salt fixes the following issues: - CVE-2022-22935: Sign authentication replies to prevent MiTM bsc1197417 - CVE-2022-22934: Sign pillar data to prevent MiTM attacks. bsc1197417 - CVE-2022-22936: Prevent job and fileserver replays bsc1197417 - CVE-2022-22941: Fixed targeting bug,...

RAV Antivirus: How to Protect Your Data in 2022

By Owais Sultan Did you know that cybercrime has become more profitable than the global trade of all major illegal drugs… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: RAV Antivirus: How to Protect Your Data in 2022...

Executive Summary: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats

Executive Summary: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats By John Fokker · March 28, 2022 Traditionally when we talk about threat actors, we first need to make the split between cybercrime and nation-state sponsored operations. Where cybercrime is mostly focused on financial gain,...

The vulnerability of the web interface of D-Link DIR-X1860 Wi-Fi routers allows a intruder to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the web interface of D-Link DIR-X1860 Wi-Fi routers is related to insufficient protection of sensitive data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to protected information through a specially created HTTP request...

The vulnerability of IMAP servers for direct-access voice mail systems with the Visual Voice Mail (VVM) visual interface for Android allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of IMAP servers for direct-access voice mail services with the Visual Voice Mail VVM visual interface on Android devices is related to insufficient protection of service data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker operating remotely to gain unauthorized access to...

Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections

Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections By Taylor Mullins · March 23, 2022 Trellix is continuing to monitor the threat activity related to the LAPSUS$ threat group and their recent breaches of large organizations such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Okta. This...

Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections

Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections By Taylor Mullins · March 23, 2022 Trellix is continuing to monitor the threat activity related to the LAPSUS$ threat group and their recent breaches of large organizations such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Okta. This...

The vulnerability of the Jenkins HashiCorp Vault’s software for storing API keys, tokens, and passwords arises from a flaw in its data protection mechanism. This flaw allows attackers to disclose the protected information.

The vulnerability of the Jenkins HashiCorp Vault’s software for storing API keys, tokens, and passwords is related to a flaw in the data protection mechanism. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating remotely, to expose the protected information...

The vulnerability of the Azure Site Recovery disaster recovery tool lies in the insufficient protection of registration data, allowing attackers to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Azure Site Recovery recovery tool is related to insufficient protection for registration data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to gain increased privileges...

The vulnerability of the Azure Site Recovery disaster recovery tool lies in the insufficient protection of registration data, allowing attackers to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Azure Site Recovery recovery tool is related to insufficient protection for registration data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to gain increased privileges...

IBM Spectrum Protect Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-60419)

IBM Spectrum Protect is a suite of data protection platforms from IBM Corporation in the United States. The platform provides enterprises with a single point of control and management and supports backup and recovery for virtual, physical and cloud environments of all sizes. IBM Spectrum Protect...

New Backdoor Targets French Entities via Open-Source Package Installer

Researchers have exposed a new targeted email campaign aimed at French entities in the construction, real estate, and government sectors that leverages the Chocolatey Windows package manager to deliver a backdoor called Serpent on compromised systems. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint attribute...

Veeam Backup&Replication Authorization Issues Vulnerability

Veeam Backup & Replication is a suite of data protection software from the Swiss company Veeam. The software provides backup, replication and recovery for VMware and Hyper-V VMs, physical and cloud environments. Veeam Backup&Replication suffers from an authorization issue vulnerability that can b...

Veeam Backup&Replication Access Control Error Vulnerability

Veeam Backup & Replication is a suite of data protection software from the Swiss company Veeam. The software provides backup, replication and recovery for VMware and Hyper-V VMs, physical and cloud environments. Veeam Backup&Replication is vulnerable to an Access Control Error vulnerability, no...

Veeam Backup&Replication Path Traversal Vulnerability

Veeam Backup & Replication is a suite of data protection software from the Swiss company Veeam. The software provides backup, replication and recovery for VMware and Hyper-V VMs, physical and cloud environments. A path traversal vulnerability exists in Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5U3, 9.5U4, 10....