NCSC-NZ Releases Annual Cyber Threat Report

The New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-NZ has released their annual report detailing cyber threats and incidents affecting New Zealand from July 2018 to June 2019. During this period, NCSC-NZ recorded an increase in the severity of cybersecurity incidents—particularly from...

NCSC Releases 2019 Annual Review

The United Kingdom's UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released its Annual Review for 2019, which reports their work and key accomplishments from September 1, 2018, to August 31, 2019. NCSC provides enhanced services to protect the UK against cybersecurity threats. The Cybersecurity and...

NSA and NCSC Release Joint Advisory on Turla Group Activity

The National Security Agency NSA and the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre NCSC have released a joint advisory on advanced persistent threat APT group Turla—widely reported to be Russian and also known as Snake, Uroburos, VENEMOUS BEAR, or Waterbug. The advisory provides an update to...

NCSC Releases Fact Sheet on DNS Monitoring

The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released a fact sheet on the increasing difficulty of Domain Name System DNS monitoring. NCSC warns that although modernization of transport protocols is helpful, it also makes it more difficult to monitor or modify DNS requests. These changes cou...

Vulnerabilities Exploited in Multiple VPN Applications

The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released an alert on advanced persistent threat APT actors exploiting vulnerabilities in Virtual Private Network VPN applications. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The...

NCSC Releases UK Cyber Incident Trends Report

The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released a report detailing cyber incident trends in the UK from October 2018 to April 2019. The report provides technical guidance on how to defend against, and recover from, the following cyber threats: ransomware, phishing,...

NCSC Releases 2019 Active Cyber Defence Report

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released their 2019 Active Cyber Defence ACD report, which provides an analysis of program outcomes throughout 2018. NCSC’s ACD program—stood up in 2016—seeks to reduce harm from commodity cyberattacks against the United Kingdom. The...

NCSC Releases Advisory on Ongoing DNS Hijacking Campaign

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released an advisory about an ongoing Domain Name System DNS hijacking campaign. The advisory details risks and mitigations for organizations to defend against this campaign, in which attackers use compromised credentials to modify the...

NCSC Releases Advisory on Ryuk Ransomware

The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released an advisory, Ryuk Ransomware Targeting Organisations Globally, on their ongoing investigation into global Ryuk ransomware campaigns and associated Emotet and TrickBot malware. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agen...

Top UK Official Derides Huawei Claiming it has ‘Bad Security’

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A top official at the National Cyber Security Centre in the UK set his sights on Huawei, the telecom equipment giant, in an opening keynote session at the GSMA’s Mobile360 Security for 5G conference on Tuesday. Ian Levy, technical director at the agency, took the stage fo...

Elastic Kibana < 5.6.15, 6.x.x < 6.6.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities - Windows

Kibana is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only if description...

That Bloomberg Supply-Chain-Hack Story

Back in October, Bloomberg reported that China has managed to install backdoors into server equipment that ended up in networks belonging to -- among others -- Apple and Amazon. Pretty much everybody has denied it including the US DHS and the UK NCSC. Bloomberg has stood by its story -- and is...

Self-encrypting hard drives do not adequately protect data

Overview There are multiple vulnerabilities in implementations of ATA Security or TCG Opal Standards in Self-Encrypting Disks SEDs, which can allow an attacker to decrypt contents of an encrypted drive. Description CVE-2018-12037 There is no cryptographic relation between the password provided by...

NCSC Releases 2018 Annual Review

The United Kingdom's UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released its Annual Review for 2018, which provides a snapshot of their work from September 1, 2017, to August 31, 2018. NCSC provides enhanced services to protect the UK against cybersecurity threats. NCCIC encourages users and...

A week in security (October 8 – 14)

Last week, we warned you away from some dubious Doctor Who streams, explained how Endpoint Detection and Response may not be enough, and explored what happens during a confusing supply chain story. We also showed you how to keep up with security, explained the risks of fake browser updates, and...

Linux Kernel IP Fragment Reassembly Denial of Service Vulnerability Affecting Cisco Products: August 2018

On August 14, 2018, the Vulnerability Coordination team of the National Cyber Security Centre of Finland NCSC-FI and the CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC disclosed a vulnerability in the IP stack that is used by the Linux Kernel. This vulnerability is publicly known as FragmentSmack. The...

Linux Kernel IP Vulnerability 2

On the week of July 15th, researcher Juha-Matti Tilli disclosed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel to the kernel maintainers, the National Cyber Security Center - Finland NCSC-FI, CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC, and Akamai. The vulnerability, CVE-2018-5391, is a resource exhaustion attack...

Linux Kernel TCP Vulnerability

On the week of July 15th researcher Juha-Matti Tilli disclosed a vulnerability he discovered in the Linux kernel to the kernel maintainers, the National Cyber Security Center - Finland NCSC-FI, CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC, and Akamai. The vulnerability, CVE-2018-5390, is a resource exhaustio...

Russian Malicious Cyber Activity

The Department of Homeland Security DHS, Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the United Kingdom’s UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC released a joint Technical Alert TA about malicious cyber activity carried out by the Russian Government. The U.S. Government refers to malicious cyber...

NCSC Releases Security Advisory

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released a report updating its guidance on Turla Neuron malware, which provides a platform to steal sensitive data. NCSC provides enhanced cybersecurity services to protect against cybersecurity threats. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users a...