A week in security (November 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered statistics and information on a sneaky new Trojan malware for Android, inspected a bevy of current Facebook scams, and explained the importance of securing food and agriculture infrastructure. We also released our latest report on cybercrime tactics and...

Google's Plan to Crunch Health Data on Millions of Patients Draws Fire

Tech behemoth Google is using artificial intelligence to reportedly slice and dice personal healthcare details on millions of Americans. That has some researchers diagnosing the company with HIPAA violations and prescribing regulatory controls as a remedy. And, at least one federal regulator is...

Adobe Releases Security Updates

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Adobe products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...

Intel Releases Security Updates

Intel has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following Intel advisories and apply the necessary updates: BMC Advisory INTEL-SA-00313 UEFI Advisory...

Siemens S7-1200 and S7-200 SMART CPUs (Update B)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.8 ATTENTION : Low skill level to exploit Vendor : Siemens Equipment: S7-1200 CPU family including SIPLUS variants; S7-200 SMART CPU family Vulnerability : Exposed Dangerous Method or Function 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the advisory...

DDoS Attacks Target Amazon, SoftLayer and Telecom Infrastructure

The last 30 days has seen a renewed increase in distributed denial-of-service DDoS activity, according to researchers, who said that they have observed a number of criminal campaigns mounting TCP reflection DDoS attacks against corporations. Researchers at Radware said that the list of victims...

infrastructurereportcard.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1013686 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

DoS Vulnerability in Hitachi Command Suite and Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor

Overview A DoS vulnerability was found in Hitachi Command Suite and Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor. Impact Regarding the impact of the vulnerability, please refer to the vendor advisory. Solution Please refer to the 'Vendor Information' section for the official countermeasure and take...

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the Struggles of Policing the Web

At WIRED25 the internet infrastructure chief talks about doing the hard calculus of pulling support from controversial sites—and why that’ll happen again...

Is Service Mesh right for your infrastructure?

Andrew Jenkins of Aspen Mesh identifies three deployment options with regards to how a Service Mesh delivers its services: As a sidecar that runs alongside your microservice container As a library that can be built into each of the microservices As an agent that sit in the container infrastructur...

Backup infrastructure missing in SCOM views after upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 U4

Challenge After you upgrade to Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, MP for Veeam Backup & Replication monitoring views in SCOM no longer display backup infrastructure partially or completely. The following events can be found in the SCOM Windows event log on the affected Veeam Backup &...

How to Secure Critical Infrastructure When Patching Isn't Possible

Cyberattacks are on the rise and threatening our digital life and our most intimate information — but also our operational realities. Attacks on critical infrastructure such as power plants, water works, airports and the like transportation ranks among the highest-value targets for cyberattackers...

C2 With It All: From Ransomware To Carding

By Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura. Summary Cisco Talos recently discovered a new server hosting a large stockpile of malicious files. Our analysis of these files shows that these attackers were able to obtain a deep level of access to victims' infrastructure — all of which...

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Cisco products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities see the Cisco Security Advisories webpage. The Cybersecurity...

Red Hat Update Infrastructure Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Red Hat Update Infrastructure is a Red Hat solution for managing the contents of yum repositories in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Red Hat Update Infrastructure version 2.1.3. The vulnerability, which arises from a configuration or other err...

CVE-2019-10512

Payload size is not checked before using it as array index in audio in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in...

Code injection

Payload size is not checked before using it as array index in audio in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon Wearables, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking in...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Evolved Programmable Network Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI and Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager EPNM could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability exists because affected devices...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Multiple Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-20190515-pi-rce)

The Cisco Prime Infrastructure application running on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An unspecified flaw exists that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2019-1821 - An unspecified flaw exists that allows a remote, authenticate...

Further enhancing security from Microsoft, not just for Microsoft

Legacy infrastructure. Bolted-on security solutions. Application sprawl. Multi-cloud environments. Company data stored across devices and apps. IT and security resource constraints. Uncertainty of where and when the next attack or leak will come, including from the inside. These are just a few of...