The NSA Swears It Has ‘No Backdoors’ in Next-Gen Encryption

Plus: New details of ICE’s dragnet surveillance in the US, Clearview AI agrees to limit sales of its faceprint database, and more...

Protecting Against Cyber Threats to Managed Service Providers and their Customers

Summary Tactical actions for MSPs and their customers to take today: • Identify and disable accounts that are no longer in use. • Enforce MFA on MSP accounts that access the customer environment and monitor for unexplained failed authentication. • Ensure MSP-customer contracts transparently...

The top 5 most routinely exploited vulnerabilities of 2021

A joint Cybersecurity Advisory, coauthored by cybersecurity authorities of the United States CISA, NSA, and FBI, Australia ACSC, Canada CCCS, New Zealand NZ NCSC, and the United Kingdom NCSC-UK has detailed the top 15 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs routinely exploited by malicious cybe...

Vulnerabilities fixed in SonicOS

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in SonicOS. A malicious party could potentially exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service or to gain access to system data. SonicWall has issued updates to fix the vulnerabilities in SonicOS. For more information, see below:...

2021 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security CCCS, the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre NZ NCSC, and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-UK have...

Cisco Releases Security Patches for TelePresence, RoomOS and Umbrella VA

Networking equipment maker Cisco has released security updates to address three high-severity vulnerabilities in its products that could be exploited to cause a denial-of-service DoS condition and take control of affected systems. The first of the three flaws, CVE-2022-20783 CVSS score: 7.5,...

InsightCloudSec Supports the Recently Updated NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guide

The National Security Agency NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA recently updated their Kubernetes Hardening Guide, which was originally published in August 2021. With the help and feedback received from numerous partners in the cybersecurity community, this guide...

Feds: APTs Have Tools That Can Take Over Critical Infrastructure

Threat actors have built and are ready to deploy tools that can take over a number of widely used industrial control system ICS devices, which spells trouble for critical infrastructure providers—particularly those in the energy sector, federal agencies have warned. In a joint advisory, the...

Industrial Control System Malware Discovered

The Department of Energy, CISA, the FBI, and the NSA jointly issued an advisory describing a sophisticated piece of malware called Pipedream thats designed to attack a wide range of industrial control systems. This is clearly from a government, but no attribution is given. Theres also no indicati...

Microsoft Issues Patches for 2 Windows Zero-Days and 126 Other Vulnerabilities

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates for the month of April have addressed a total of 128 security vulnerabilities spanning across its software product portfolio, including Windows, Defender, Office, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, and Print Spooler, among others. 10 of the 128 bugs fixed are rated...

Agencies Warn on Satellite Hacks & GPS Jamming Affecting Airplanes, Critical Infrastructure

In a warning to aviation authorities and air operators on Thursday, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency EASA warned of satellite jamming and spoofing attacks across a broad swath of Eastern Europe that could affect air navigation systems. The warning came in tandem with a separate alert fro...

Updated: Kubernetes Hardening Guide

The National Security Agency NSA and CISA have updated their joint Cybersecurity Technical Report CTR: Kubernetes Hardening Guide, originally released in August 2021, based on valuable feedback and inputs from the cybersecurity community. Kubernetes is an open-source system that automates...

Updated: Conti Ransomware

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the National Security Agency NSA, and the United States Secret Service USSS have re-released an advisory on Conti ransomware. Conti cyber threat actors remain active and reported Conti ransomware attacks against U.S. and international organizations...

Details of an NSA Hacking Operation

Pangu Lab in China just published a report of a hacking operation by the Equation Group aka the NSA. It noticed the hack in 2013, and was able to map it with Equation Group tools published by the Shadow Brokers aka some Russian group. …the scope of victims exceeded 287 targets in 45 countries,...

NSA Releases Network Infrastructure Security Guidance

The National Security Agency NSA has released a new Cybersecurity Technical Report CTR: Network Infrastructure Security Guidance. The report captures best practices based on the depth and breadth of experience in supporting customers and responding to threats. Recommendations include perimeter an...

Iranian Government-Sponsored Actors Conduct Cyber Operations Against Global Government and Commercial Networks

Summary Actions to Take Today to Protect Against Malicious Activity Search for indicators of compromise. Use antivirus software. Patch all systems. Prioritize patching known exploited vulnerabilities. Train users to recognize and report phishing attempts. Use multi-factor authentication. Note: th...

Chinese Experts Uncover Details of Equation Group's Bvp47 Covert Hacking Tool

Researchers from China's Pangu Lab have disclosed details of a "top-tier" backdoor put to use by the Equation Group, an advanced persistent threat APT with alleged ties to the cyber-warfare intelligence-gathering unit of the U.S. National Security Agency NSA. Dubbed "Bvp47" owing to numerous...

New Sandworm Malware Cyclops Blink Replaces VPNFilter

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre, CISA, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA reporting that the malicious cyber actor known as Sandworm or Voodoo Bear is using new malware, referred to as Cyclops...

A New Cybersecurity “Social Contract”

The US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis wrote an essay outlining a new social contract for the cyber age: The United States needs a new social contract for the digital age -- one that meaningfully alters the relationship between public and private sectors and proposes a new set of obligations...

NSA Best Practices for Selecting Cisco Password Types

The National Security Agency NSA has released a Cybersecurity Information CSI sheet with guidance on securing network infrastructure devices and credentials. Cisco devices are used globally to secure network infrastructure devices, including across the Department of Defense, National Security...