Malware Gangs Partner Up in Double-Punch Security Threat

Cybergangs are joining forces under the guise of affiliate groups and “as-a-service” models, warns Maya Horowitz, the director of threat intelligence research with Check Point Research. She said the trend is driving a new and thriving cybercriminal underground economy. Several malware gangs have...

Podcast: Ransomware Attacks Exploded in Q4 2020

Ransomware attacks continue to plague companies, with researchers from Fortinet’s Fortiguard Labs saying they saw an explosion in ransomware activity towards the end of the fourth quarter of 2020. Derek Manky According to Fortinet’s new “FortiGuard Labs Threat Report: Disruption Key Threat Trend ...

Exploit for Improper Authentication in Saltstack Salt

CVE-2021-25281...

CVE-2021-3406

A flaw was found in keylime 5.8.1 and older. The issue in the Keylime agent and registrar code invalidates the cryptographic chain of trust from the Endorsement Key certificate to agent attestations...

CVE-2021-3406

A flaw was found in keylime 5.8.1 and older. The issue in the Keylime agent and registrar code invalidates the cryptographic chain of trust from the Endorsement Key certificate to agent attestations...

Code injection

A flaw was found in keylime 5.8.1 and older. The issue in the Keylime agent and registrar code invalidates the cryptographic chain of trust from the Endorsement Key certificate to agent attestations...

CVE-2021-3406

A flaw was found in keylime 5.8.1 and older. The issue in the Keylime agent and registrar code invalidates the cryptographic chain of trust from the Endorsement Key certificate to agent attestations...

CVE-2021-3406

A flaw was found in keylime 5.8.1 and older. The issue in the Keylime agent and registrar code invalidates the cryptographic chain of trust from the Endorsement Key certificate to agent attestations...

Microsoft open sources CodeQL queries used to hunt for Solorigate activity

A key aspect of the Solorigate attack is the supply chain compromise that allowed the attacker to modify binaries in SolarWinds’ Orion product. These modified binaries were distributed via previously legitimate update channels and allowed the attacker to remotely perform malicious activities, suc...

Microsoft open sources CodeQL queries used to hunt for Solorigate activity

A key aspect of the Solorigate attack is the supply chain compromise that allowed the attacker to modify binaries in SolarWinds’ Orion product. These modified binaries were distributed via previously legitimate update channels and allowed the attacker to remotely perform malicious activities, suc...

Russian Hackers Targeted Ukraine Authorities With Supply-Chain Malware Attack

Ukraine is formally pointing fingers at Russian hackers for hacking into one of its government systems and attempting to plant and distribute malicious documents that would install malware on target systems of public authorities. "The purpose of the attack was the mass contamination of informatio...

Russian Hackers Targeted Ukraine Authorities With Supply-Chain Malware Attack

Ukraine is formally pointing fingers at Russian hackers for hacking into one of its government systems and attempting to plant and distribute malicious documents that would install malware on target systems of public authorities. "The purpose of the attack was the mass contamination of informatio...

Fedora 33 : keylime (2021-5c01339c12)

The remote Fedora 33 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-5c01339c12 advisory. - A flaw was found in keylime 5.8.1 and older. The issue in the Keylime agent and registrar code invalidates the cryptographic chain of trust from the...

CNCF Keylime Trust Management Issue Vulnerability

CNCF Keylime is a CNCF open source application. It provides a highly scalable solution for remote boot attestation and runtime integrity measurement. A trust management issue vulnerability existed prior to keylime version 5.8.1, which stemmed from a failed chain of trust ciphers for proxy...

PT-2021-20374 · Keylime · Keylime

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: keylime versions 5.8.1 and older Description: A flaw was found in the Keylime agent and registrar code, which invalidates the cryptographic chain of trust from the Endorsement Key certificate to agent attestations. Recommendations: For keylim...

Fedora 32 : keylime (2021-11e4ae96a7)

The remote Fedora 32 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-11e4ae96a7 advisory. - A flaw was found in keylime 5.8.1 and older. The issue in the Keylime agent and registrar code invalidates the cryptographic chain of trust from the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20230

A flaw was found in stunnel before 5.57, where it improperly validates client certificates when it is configured to use both redirect and verifyChain options. This flaw allows an attacker with a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority, which is not the one accepted by the stunnel server, to...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-20230

A flaw was found in stunnel before 5.57, where it improperly validates client certificates when it is configured to use both redirect and verifyChain options. This flaw allows an attacker with a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority, which is not the one accepted by the stunnel server, to...

Dependency Confusion: Another Supply-Chain Vulnerability

Alex Birsan writes about being able to install malware into proprietary corporate software by naming the code files to be identical to internal corporate code files. From a ZDNet article: Today, developers at small or large companies use package managers to download and import libraries that are...

5 Security Lessons for Small Security Teams for the Post COVID19 Era

A full-time mass work from home WFH workforce was once considered an extreme risk scenario that few risk or security professionals even bothered to think about. Unfortunately, within a single day, businesses worldwide had to face such a reality. Their 3-year long digital transformation strategy w...