China Chip Hack Shines Spotlight on Hardware and Supply-Chain Risk

Recent revelations in the press regarding hardware implants and supply-chain compromise are troubling and should be seen as an opportunity to assess our current threat model and security approach. This recently revealed situation is the hardware analogue to the software supply chain compromises w...

Chinese Supply Chain Hardware Attack

Bloomberg is reporting about a Chinese espionage operating involving inserting a tiny chip into computer products made in China. I've written about alternate link this threat more generally. Supply-chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. Our IT industry is inexorably international, and...

Apple, Amazon Strongly Refute Server Infiltration Report

Apple and Amazon are strongly refuting a report claiming that Chinese spies infiltrated third-party motherboards used on servers by U.S. companies. If true, the incident would be the largest supply chain attack to have been launched against American corporations, say experts. According to a...

Chinese Spying Chips Found Hidden On Servers Used By US Companies

A media report today revealed details of a significant supply chain attack which appears to be one of the largest corporate espionage and hardware hacking programs from a nation-state. According to a lengthy report published today by Bloomberg, a tiny surveillance chip, not much bigger than a gra...

Chinese Spying Chips Found Hidden On Servers Used By US Companies

A media report today revealed details of a significant supply chain attack which appears to be one of the largest corporate espionage and hardware hacking programs from a nation-state. According to a lengthy report published today by Bloomberg, a tiny surveillance chip, not much bigger than a gra...

Cloud, Containers, Orchestration Big Factors in BSIMM9

As software and applications increasingly head to the cloud, traditional enterprise software security initiatives are getting turned on their head. The push to the cloud, experts say, isn’t just taking applications and services off premises: It’s redefining how DevOps and traditional IT departmen...

Virus Bulletin 2018: Microsoft’s Lambert on How Cloud is Changing Security

MONTREAL – As businesses increasingly turn to the cloud and to software-as-a-service applications, they are finding themselves with new attack surfaces and new types of threats – specifically, hard-to-thwart supply-chain attacks that have the potential for large amounts of collateral damage. In a...

After importing a certificate PEM file with more than one CERTIFICATE section, you cannot access the management console

You have a PEM file which contains a PRIVATE KEY section, and more than one CERTIFICATE section. The additional CERTIFICATE sections are for other root certificate authorities. In the Management Console, you go to Settings and Configuration, and upload the certificate. Once that completes, the...

2018 Has Been Open Season on Open Source Supply Chains

As the number of open source components used in software supply chains shoot up, hackers are going along for the ride. Increasingly threat actors are planting bad code in open-source repositories in the hopes to harvest the flaws later when used in larger banking, manufacturing and healthcare Dev...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2018-25117

VestaCP commit a3f0fa1 2018-05-31 up to commit ee03eff 2018-06-13 contain embedded malicious code that resulted in a supply-chain compromise. New installations created from the compromised installer since at least May 2018 were subject to installation of Linux/ChachaDDoS, a multi-stage DDoS...

Vanilla: Vanilla Forums Xenforo password splitHash Unserialize Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary: An authenticated admin user can inject an unserializable password in a another users account. Later when attempting a login with that user, the attacker can trigger a call to an unserialize in the splitHash function. By using a custom pop chain to write into the constants.php file, an...

Aviation & Logistics: Island Hopping – A Growing Threat

When we think about the industries that have the most to lose from a serious cyber attack, our minds probably immediately go to the Finance, Healthcare, and Energy sectors. And for good reason - as Carbon Black research shows, 78% of IR professionals say they observe attacks on the financial...

SANS THIR Summit Wrap Up – “We Have 15 Minutes”

Heading back to San Diego before I get on another flight 30 hours later. Lots of people say "what are you crazy? Why do that?"…to which I say: "we cannot achieve any mission without sacrifice." Going to events like the SANS Threat Hunting IR summit remind just how many dedicated people we have on...

PT-2018-3480 · Google +2 · Go +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Go versions prior to 1.10.6 Go versions 1.11.x prior to 1.11.3 Description: The crypto/x509 package of Go does not limit the amount of work performed for each chain verification, which might allow attackers to craft pathological inputs leadin...

Cb Response Named Leader in EDR Space by Forrester

Last quarter, Forrester created a report assessing the state of the EDR market and how vendors stack up against one another. A variety of companies were evaluated in three key areas: The strengths and weaknesses of their current offerings. Forrester cited key criteria to include: alerting...

This Week in Security News: Air Canada and Cryptojacking

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Air Canada reported a data breach that exposed passport details for more than 20,000 customers on their mobile app. Also, Trend Micro’s...

CVE-2018-6598

An issue was discovered on Orbic Wonder Orbic/RC555L/RC555L:7.1.2/N2G47H/329100b:user/release-keys devices. Any app co-located on the device can send an intent to factory reset the device programmatically because of com.android.server.MasterClearReceiver. This does not require any user interactio...

CVE-2018-6598

The CVE-2018-6598 entry concerns Orbic Wonder devices (Orbic/RC555L/RC555L:7.1.2/N2G47H/329100b:user/release-keys). A local-privilege-level issue exists where any app co-located on the device can send an intent to trigger a factory reset through com.android.server.MasterClearReceiver, without use...

Foxit PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049 - Pointer Overwrite Use-After-Free (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Foxit PDF Reader Pointer Overwrite UAF', 'Description' = %q Foxit PDF Reader v9.0.1.1049 has a Use-After-Free vulnerability in the Text Annotatio...

Foxit PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049 Pointer Overwrite Use-After-Free Exploit

Foxit PDF Reader version 9.0.1.1049 has a use-after-free vulnerability in the Text Annotations component and the TypedArray's use uninitialized pointers. The vulnerabilities can be combined to leak a vtable memory address, which can be adjusted to point to the base address of the executable. A RO...