‘Unpacking’ technical attribution and challenges for ensuring stability in cyberspace

Introduction When reports of a cyberattack appear in the headlines, questions abound regarding who launched it and why. Even if an attacker has what are to it perfectly rational reasons for conducting such an attack, these reasons are often known only to them. The rest of the world, including the...

CVE-2022-20193

In getUniqueUsagesWithLabels of PermissionUsageHelper.java, there is a possible incorrect permission attribution due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege by conflating apps with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for...

CVE-2022-20193

In getUniqueUsagesWithLabels of PermissionUsageHelper.java, there is a possible incorrect permission attribution due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege by conflating apps with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for...

Code injection

In getUniqueUsagesWithLabels of PermissionUsageHelper.java, there is a possible incorrect permission attribution due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege by conflating apps with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for...

CVE-2022-20193

Summary: CVE-2022-20193 affects Android 12L, in getUniqueUsagesWithLabels of PermissionUsageHelper.java, where a logic error could cause incorrect permission attribution. This may allow local escalation of privilege by conflating apps with User execution privileges. Impact : requires user interac...

CVE-2022-20193

In getUniqueUsagesWithLabels of PermissionUsageHelper.java, there is a possible incorrect permission attribution due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege by conflating apps with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for...

PUB-A-212434116

In getUniqueUsagesWithLabels of PermissionUsageHelper.java, there is a possible incorrect permission attribution due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege by conflating apps with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation...

Undefined behavior when users supply invalid resource handles

Impact Multiple TensorFlow operations misbehave in eager mode when the resource handle provided to them is invalid: python import tensorflow as tf tf.rawops.QueueIsClosedV2handle= python import tensorflow as tf tf.summary.flushwriter= In graph mode, it would have been impossible to perform these...

Cyber risk management: Attribution strategies

Discover the importance of cyber attribution, the benefits, and the right tools to assist your efforts so you can better manage cyber risk across your digital attack surface...

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...

Ukrainian Companies Targeted by Wipers - Impact & Prevention

War, weapons, and wipers By Max Kersten · March 31, 2022 In the recent weeks, Ukrainian companies have been targeted by wipers, likely created by pro-Russian actors. There has been a lot of talk about a “cyber war” and the usage of “cyber weapons.” Whereas the digital domain is certainly abused,...

Nation-State Crosshairs: Australia, India & Japan

In The Nation-State Crosshairs: Australia, India & Japan By Trellix · March 28, 2022 Today Trellix and the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS released a global report, In the Crosshairs: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats, examining security professionals’ mindsets...

Nation-State Crosshairs: France, Germany & United Kingdom

In the Nation-State Crosshairs: France, Germany & the United Kingdom By Trellix · March 28, 2022 Today Trellix and the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS released a global report, In the Crosshairs: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats, examining security professionals’...

Detection of ‘Leave Behinds’ From Nation-State Actors

Who left the backdoor open? By Trellix · March 28, 2022 In our recent report, In the Crosshairs: Companies and Nation-State Cyber Threats, over 800 IT decision makers from around the world were interviewed on their experiences with nation-state cyber attacks. One of the questions sought to...

Suspected DarkHotel APT Activity Update

Suspected DarkHotel APT activity update One Hotel to rule them all, One Hotel to find them, One Hotel to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. By John Fokker · March 17, 2022 This story was also written by Thibault Seret Introduction: Our advanced threat research team has discovered a...

Russian Ransomware Gang Retool Custom Hacking Tools of Other APT Groups

A Russian-speaking ransomware outfit likely targeted an unnamed entity in the gambling and gaming sector in Europe and Central America by repurposing custom tools developed by other APT groups like Iran's MuddyWater, new research has found. The unusual attack chain involved the abuse of stolen...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

CVE-2021-44228 Log4j2 component command execution RCE...

Digging into HermeticWiper

Digging into HermeticWiper By Max Kersten · March 2, 2022 A special thanks to Marc Elias for his help during my analysis. Additionally, I’d like to commend all researchers who have publicly shared their initial findings to help incident response teams; I hope this deep dive contributes to a furth...

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update By Taylor Mullins, Mo Cashman and Raj Samani · January 20, 2022 Recent news reports of a “ransomware” campaign targeting Ukraine has resulted in significant press coverage regarding not only...

SAS 2021: Learning to ChaCha with APT41

Straight from the sunny UK to the stage of SAS-at-Home 2021, John Southworth PwC will be giving some insights about the threat actor APT41, also known as Red Kelpie and Winnti. Starting with APT10 Red Apollo, the presentation will dance you through the malware used by APT41 – the Motnug loader an...