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Even the CIA and NSA Use Ad Blockers to Stay Safe Online
Plus: The ransomware scourge continues, a massive botnet gets wounded, and more of the week’s top security news...
More Detail on the Juniper Hack and the NSA PRNG Backdoor
We knew the basics of this story, but its good to have more detail. Heres me in 2015 about this Juniper hack. Heres me in 2007 on the NSA backdoor...
More Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
Late last year, the NSA declassified and released a redacted version of Lambros D. Callimahoss Military Cryptanalytics, Part III. We just got most of the index. Its hard to believe that there are any real secrets left in this 44-year-old volume...
NSA Watchdog Will Review Tucker Carlson Spy Claims
The National Security Agency’s Inspector General Robert Storch has announced a review of whether the agency illegally conducted cyber-espionage and collected the electronic communications of Fox News opinion-show host Tucker Carlson, who has accused the NSA of trying to capture embarrassing...
A week in security (August 2 – August 8)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: RDP brute force attacks explained The 3 biggest threats reaching for your antivirus software’s off switch Zoom and gloom? Video comms org agrees to settle for $85m COVID-19 vaccine appointment system attacked in Italy Chrome casts away the padlock - is it good...
Black Hat: New CISA Head Woos Crowd With Public-Private Task Force
LAS VEGAS – Just weeks after the U.S. Senate confirmed Jen Easterly to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the new director spoke at Black Hat USA 2021 on Thursday, albeit virtually, announcing a major public-private partnership to fight cybercrime. Called the Joint...
A week in security (July 26 – August 1)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: OSX.XLoader hides little except its main purpose: What we learned in the installation process. The Clubhouse database “breach” is likely a non-breach. Here’s why. Kaseya Unitrends has unpatched vulnerabilities that could help attackers expand a breach. UDP Technolo...
CISA and NSA Release Kubernetes Hardening Guidance
The National Security Agency NSA and CISA have released Kubernetes Hardening Guidance, a cybersecurity technical report detailing the complexities of securely managing Kubernetes—an open-source, container-orchestration system used to automate deploying, scaling, and managing containerized...
Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest
A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis: The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially a...
Indictments, Attribution Unlikely to Deter Chinese Hacking
The federal government is fighting back against what it says are China-based cyberattacks against U.S. universities and companies with indictments and a “naming-and-shaming” approach — but researchers aren’t convinced the efforts will come to much in terms of deterring future activity. On Monday,...
U.S. Government Releases Indictment and Several Advisories Detailing Chinese Cyber Threat Activity
CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA have observed increasingly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored activity targeting U.S. political, economic, military, educational, and critical infrastructure personnel and organizations. In response: The White...
New CISA Director Confirmed, W.H. Gains Cyber-Director
The U.S. has made a key move to shore up its cybersecurity strategy, with the confirmation of Jen Easterly as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday. Easterly, a former official at the National Security Agency from 2011 to 2013 and two-time Bronze Star...
MITRE introduces D3FEND framework
The US National Security Agency NSA has announced it will fund the development of a knowledge base of defensive countermeasures for the most common techniques used by malicious threat actors. The project will be made available through MITRE and will be called D3FEND as it complements MITRE’s...
Report: Danish Secret Service Helped NSA Spy On European Politicians
The U.S. National Security Agency NSA used a partnership with Denmark's foreign and military intelligence service to eavesdrop on top politicians and high-ranking officials in Germany, Sweden, Norway, and France by tapping into Danish underwater internet cables between 2012 and 2014. Details of t...
Newly Declassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s
This is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: "NSA Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the Inman Era," Cryptographic Quarterly, Spring 1996, author still classified...
A week in security (May 3 – 9)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we discussed how Spectre attacks have come back from the dead; why Facebook banned Instragram ads by Signal; we highlighted the differences between the most popular VPN protocols; pointed out that Google is about to start automatically enrolling users in two-step...
CVE-2021-32092
A Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the DocumentAction component of U.S. National Security Agency NSA Emissary 5.9.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the uuid parameter...
CVE-2021-32093
The ConfigFileAction component of U.S. National Security Agency NSA Emissary 5.9.0 allows an authenticated user to read arbitrary files via the ConfigName parameter...
Cross site scripting
A Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the DocumentAction component of U.S. National Security Agency NSA Emissary 5.9.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the uuid parameter...