A buffer overflow vulnerability in older Starcraft version enabled modders to create new maps, so Blizzard tasked reverse engineer to safely emulate the bug in the newer, fixed version.
The author says it all: "This is a tale about what dedication to backward compatibility implies."
https://plus.google.com/+MartinSeeger/posts/HYmY8gPCYJT
A bug in the Grammarly chrome extension (approx ~22M users) exposes user authentication token to all websites, so everybody collecting user data can access their cloud data at grammarly.com.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1527&desc=2
With the release of Google Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as a “not secure” in the status bar.
https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html
Article about the Australian startup Azimuth Security which sells hacking software to the "Five Eyes" police and intelligence agencies.
Rumors are that they are able to remotely hack Android devices and iPhones.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xdayg/iphone-zero-days-inside-azimuth-security
SEC Consult researchers found multiple vulnerabilities in their smart sex toys security review. Customer database, clear passwords, vulnerable remote controllers...
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Feb/0
Metasploit integrated EternalRomance, EternalSynergy, and EternalChampion Windows (MS17-010) vulnerabilities leaked from the NSA by Shadow Brokers.
https://blog.rapid7.com/2018/02/02/metasploit-wrapup-26/
Someone leaked the source code of Apples' iBoot iOS trusted boot program on GitHub. It is a critical part of iOS system. Meanwhile, Apple filed a copyright takedown request with GitHub.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a34g9j/iphone-source-code-iboot-ios-leak
Hackers infected water utility SCADA systems in Europe with the cryptocurrency mining software.
http://www.eweek.com/security/water-utility-in-europe-hit-by-cryptocurrency-malware-mining-attack
Security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in an automated gas management system that allowed them to hijack credit card payments, steal card numbers and more.
https://www.scmagazine.com/gas-pump-vulnerabilities-in-widespread-software-grant-low-prices-and-credit-card-data/article/741764/
APT Simulator is a Windows Batch script that uses a set of tools and output files to make a system look as if it was the victim of an APT attack.
https://github.com/NextronSystems/APTSimulator
A.P. Moller–Maersk Group, the world's largest container shipping company, reinstalled 45000 PCs and 4000 Servers to recover from the NotPetya ransomware attack.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/maersk-reinstalled-45-000-pcs-and-4-000-servers-to-recover-from-notpetya-attack/
The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions that ATM jackpotting attacks are targeting cash machines in the United States. Attackers are able to empty Diebold Nixdorf and possibly other ATM machines with malware, endoscope and social engineering skills.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/01/first-jackpotting-attacks-hit-u-s-atms/
Microsoft disables Spectre software mitigation released earlier this month due to system instability.
http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-disables-spectre-mitigations-due-instability
Data from the fitness tracking app Strava gives away the location of sensitive locations like army bases.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracking-app-gives-away-location-of-secret-us-army-bases
China built African union building for free, but the building is riddled with microphones and computers are transmitting all voice data back to servers in Shanghai.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/957879611513278464
Journalist Marc Miller has interviewed one of the hackers of the ICEMAN group behind "Emmental" phishing campaign targeting bank clients.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/64349/cyber-crime/iceman-hacker-interview.html
Errata Security blog about the political nature of the cyber attack attribution. Mostly about the WannaCry and North Korea connection, but it is a good overview on attribution bias in general.
http://blog.erratasec.com/2018/01/the-problematic-wannacry-north-korea.html
Great article about the largest malvertising campaign of a last year. So called Zirconium group operated up to 30 different ad agencies which enabled them to redirect users to the exploit kits, malware downloads and click fraud websites.
https://blog.confiant.com/uncovering-2017s-largest-malvertising-operation-b84cd38d6b85
AutoSploit is an automated exploitation tool written in python. It is able to search for targets using Shodan.io API and exploiting them with Metasploit.
https://github.com/NullArray/AutoSploit
Electron applications designed to run on Windows that register themselves as the default handler for a protocol, like Skype, Slack and others, are vulnerable to the remote code execution vulnerability.
https://electronjs.org/blog/protocol-handler-fix
Dutch intelligence service AIVD provided the FBI with important information regarding Russian interference with the American elections. They have following the Cozy Bear APT for years.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/media/dutch-agencies-provide-crucial-intel-about-russia-s-interference-in-us-elections~a4561913/
Good blog about the exploitation of the Intel Management Engine 11 vulnerabilities. Researchers Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy were able to debug and analyse most of the Intel ME processes.
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2018/01/running-unsigned-code-in-intel-me.html
It's possible to bypass the Cloudflare protection by scanning internet for misconfigured customers' servers.
https://blog.christophetd.fr/bypassing-cloudflare-using-internet-wide-scan-data/
It is possible for an unauthenticated attacker in the LAN network to achieve remote code execution (CVE-2018-5999) in the AsusWRT router as the root user.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pedrib/PoC/master/advisories/asuswrt-lan-rce.txt
The Tinder dating application is not using encryption when accessing data on a backend server. Your naked photos could be seen by a waitress in a restaurant. The geeky one.
https://www.checkmarx.com/2018/01/23/tinder-someone-may-watching-swipe-2/
Oracle has released patches for ten vulnerabilities in VirtualBox, which allows guest to host virtual machine escape.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-new-vm-escape-vulnerabilities-discovered-in-virtualbox/
The guy was able to obtain TLS certificates from the Let's Encrypt certification authority for domains that he does not own, due to the TLS-SNI-01 challenge workflow in a cloud environment. Shared hosting providers like Heroku, AWS CloudFront affected.
https://labs.detectify.com/2018/01/12/how-i-exploited-acme-tls-sni-01-issuing-lets-encrypt-ssl-certs-for-any-domain-using-shared-hosting/
Blog by Joanna Rutkowska on a future Qubes Air operating system architecture roadmap. They want to provide compartmentalized secure Qubes OS as a service.
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/22/qubes-air/
There is a cryptographic analysis of the WireGuard protocol. WireGuard is a layer 3 replacement for the IPsec, OpenVPN solutions. Interesting project.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/080
Nice introduction on how to fuzz TCP servers by Robert Swiecki.
http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html
Notoriously known Necurs spam botnet is sending millions of spam emails that are pumping shitcoin cryptocurrency named Swisscoin. Attackers are probably invested and are expecting to do pump-and-dump scheme.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptocurrency/worlds-largest-spam-botnet-is-pumping-and-dumping-an-obscure-cryptocurrency/
Nice article on Russia's hacking capabilities against the foreign critical infrastructure.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40515682/the-other-scary-foreign-hacking-threat-trump-is-ignoring
Taiwanese police has handed malware-infected USB sticks as prizes for cybersecurity quiz. The malware was some old sample trying to communicate with non-existing C&C server in Poland. The thumb drives were infected by third-party contractor.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/01/10/taiwanese_police_malware/
New research is analyzing usage of the Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS records. CAA records enable domain owners to explicitly tell which certificate authority may issue digital certificates for their domain. Only 4 of the large DNS operators that dominate the Internet’s DNS infrastructure enabled their customers to configure CAA records, but things are getting better after this audit.
https://caastudy.github.io/
Lenovo engineers have discovered a backdoor affecting RackSwitch and BladeCenter switches running ENOS (Enterprise Network Operating System). The company already released firmware updates.
The backdoor was added to the source code in 2004 when it was maintained by Nortel.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lenovo-discovers-and-removes-backdoor-in-networking-switches/
Nice technical report about PowerStager, Python / C / PowerShell malware used in the Pyeongchang Olympic themed spear phishing attack.
https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2018/01/unit42-powerstager-analysis/
New research has found a flaw in a group messaging part of a Signal protocol used by Signal, WhatsApp and Threema. It’s hardly exploitable, but the server (attacker) could be, in some theoretical scenario, able to silently join an encrypted group chat.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/01/10/attack-of-the-week-group-messaging-in-whatsapp-and-signal/
Janit0r, author of the mass internet scanning campaign known as Internet Chemotherapy, released two more blogs about the campaign. Interesting.
http://depastedihrn3jtw.onion.link/show.php?md5=ee7136ac48fa59fba803b9fbcbc6d7b9
http://depastedihrn3jtw.onion.link/show.php?md5=7e7bfe406315f120d8ed325ffb87670b
A tale about the npm package which crawled user entered credit card information from the websites. It is a work of fiction, but published few hours after dozens of npm packages stopped working due to missing dependencies... Scary.
https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and-passwords-from-your-site-here-s-how-9a8cb347c5b5
HC7 Planetary Ransomware is probably the first known ransomware asking for Ethereum as a ransom payment. It's for Windows users only.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hc7-planetary-ransomware-may-be-the-first-to-accept-ethereum/
There is a hardwired network backdoor in the Western Digital MyCloud drives (user: mydlinkBRionyg, password: abc12345cba). Vendor probably patched it six months after reported.
http://gulftech.org/advisories/WDMyCloud%20Multiple%20Vulnerabilities/125
https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/949822668563365889
Wi-Fi Protected Access III - WPA3 will be forced on a marked this year. Hopefully a lot of security enhancements to wi-fi protocol will be delivered by the WPA3-certified devices.
https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-introduces-security-enhancements
Let's Encrypt certification authority has temporarily disabled TLS-SNI-01 authorization challenge due to reported exploitation technique possible on a shared hosting infrastructure.
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2018-01-09-issue-with-tls-sni-01-and-shared-hosting-infrastructure/49996
Google Cloud security engineers reported remote code execution vulnerability in the AMD Platform Security Processor.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jan/12
Brian Krebs wrote a blog about the flourishing online markets with the stolen credentials.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/the-market-for-stolen-account-credentials/
VirusTotal has a new feature, a visualization tool for the relationship between files, URLs, domains and IP addresses.
http://blog.virustotal.com/2018/01/virustotal-graph.html
A Meltdown vulnerability proof of concept for reading passwords out of Google Chrome browser.
https://github.com/RealJTG/Meltdown
Daniel Shapira from Twistlock wrote a blog about exploiting a Linux kernel vulnerability in the waitid() syscall (CVE-2017-5123) in order to modify the Linux capabilities of a Docker container, gain privileges and escape the container jail.
https://www.twistlock.com/2017/12/27/escaping-docker-container-using-waitid-cve-2017-5123/
There is a critical hardware bug in the Intel chips, which enables a user level process to access kernel address space, thus read other processes memory. Cloud providers and OS makers are preparing software patches, but the performance penalty could be significant. According to the Wired:
"[researchers] confirmed that when Intel processors perform that speculative execution, they don't fully segregate processes that are meant to be low-privilege and untrusted from the highest-privilege memory in the computer's kernel. That means a hacker can trick the processor into allowing unprivileged code to peek into the kernel's memory with speculative execution."
http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table
https://www.wired.com/story/critical-intel-flaw-breaks-basic-security-for-most-computers/
The guy dumped PlayStation 4 kernel by leaking arbitrary memory into accessible crashdumps.
https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2017/ps4-crashdump-dump/
ACM published article about more than 2 decades old ransomware experiments with the name "Cryptovirology: The Birth, Neglect, and Explosion of Ransomware".
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/7/218875-cryptovirology/fulltext
Nice write up about exploit development for the arbitrary command execution on a BMC Server Automation remote agent software.
https://nickbloor.co.uk/2018/01/01/rce-with-bmc-server-automation/
MacOS-only 0day vulnerability published on a last day of 2017. It is an IOHIDSystem kernel vulnerability that can be exploited by any unprivileged user.
https://siguza.github.io/IOHIDeous/
Edward Snowden’s open source Haven application uses smartphone sensors to detect physical tampering.
https://github.com/guardianproject/haven
PiKarma detects wireless network attacks performed by KARMA module (fake AP). Starts deauthentication attack (for fake access points).
https://github.com/WiPi-Hunter/PiKarma
There is a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the Vitek CCTV firmware. Reverse netcat shell included.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/85
Matthew Green thinks that the recently discovered "Extended Random" extension of the RSA’s BSAFE TLS library found in the older Canon printers could be NSA backdoor.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/12/19/the-strange-story-of-extended-random/
Filippo Valsorda presented the key recovery attack against the carry bug in x86-64 P-256 elliptic curve implementation in the Go library. JSON Web Encryption affected.
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/events/9021.html
Explanation how web trackers exploit browser login managers to track users on the Internet.
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/27/no-boundaries-for-user-identities-web-trackers-exploit-browser-login-managers/
According to the hacker Konstantin Kozlovsky, the creation of WannaCry and Lurk malware was supervised by the Russian FSB agency.
https://www.unian.info/world/2319991-russian-hacker-says-fsb-involved-in-creation-of-wannacry-malware.html
Short blog about the cracking encrypted (40-bit encryption) PDFs using hashcat.
https://blog.didierstevens.com/2017/12/27/cracking-encrypted-pdfs-part-2/
Crooks behind the VenusLocker ransomware to Monero mining. They are executing Monero CPU miner XMRig as a remote thread under the legitimate Windows component wuapp.exe.
https://blog.fortinet.com/2017/12/20/group-behind-venuslocker-switches-from-ransomware-to-monero-mining
Two Romanian hackers infiltrated nearly two-thirds of the outdoor surveillance cameras in Washington, DC, as part of an extortion scheme.
https://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_910710e71e532e73a80deb1294a2db7c
Proofpoint researchers published paper on largely undocumented LazarusGroup campaigns targeting cryptocurrency individuals and organizations. The research covers implants and tactics not currently covered in the media.
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/north-korea-bitten-bitcoin-bug-financially-motivated-campaigns-reveal-new
Crooks hacked Fox-IT by capturing fox-it.com DNS record, then obtained a certificated and executed a man-in-the-middle attack on connection.
https://www.fox-it.com/en/insights/blogs/blog/fox-hit-cyber-attack/
The Mandiant - FireEye company analyzed an incident at a critical infrastructure organization where an attacker deployed so called TRITON malware designed to manipulate industrial safety system. According to the analysis, "the malware was delivered as a Py2EXE compiled python script [...] containing standard Python libraries, open source libraries, as well as the attacker-developed Triconex attack framework for interacting with the Triconex controllers."
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/12/attackers-deploy-new-ics-attack-framework-triton.html
The anonymous researcher behind the massive internet scans of the IoT devices known for the BrickerBot case published some insights on his operation. Looks like he is a gray hat after all.
https://ghostbin.com/paste/q2vq2
Google published Android security roadmap for the next year. There will be lots of improvements, and new requirements for App developers.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/12/improving-app-security-and-performance.html
Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in Telegram messenger for Android, like arbitrary file overwrite on receiving and directory traversal. There are definitely better alternatives to this software...
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1470
Guy uploaded his self-signed malformed certificate to the websites which process them and found out lots of them is vulnerable to the XSS injection.
https://binaryfigments.com/2017/12/11/dont-trust-all-ssl-tls-certificates/
Mavinject is a legitimate Windows component digitally signed by Microsoft, that can be abused to inject any DLL inside a running process.
https://reaqta.com/2017/12/mavinject-microsoft-injector/
Microsoft pushed comprehensive audit reports on Windows Events to GitHub.
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-itpro-docs/tree/master/windows/device-security/auditing
The "Janus" Android vulnerability (CVE-2017-13156) allows attackers to modify the code in applications without affecting their signatures. The root of the problem is that a file can be a valid APK file and a valid DEX file at the same time. The vulnerability allows attackers to inject malware into legitimate application and avoiding detection.
https://www.guardsquare.com/en/blog/new-android-vulnerability-allows-attackers-modify-apps-without-affecting-their-signatures
According to the research by Hanno Böck, Juraj Somorovsky and Craig Young, the Bleichenbacher’s attack on RSA PKCS#1v1.5 encryption still works on almost 3% of the Alexa top million most visited websites. The researchers were even able to sign a message using Facebook’s private TLS key. Vendors like Citrix, F5, Cisco, and multiple SSL implementations are affected.
https://robotattack.org/
HP had a keylogger in the Touchpad driver, which was disabled by default, but could be enabled by setting a registry value.
https://zwclose.github.io/HP-keylogger/
There is a remote root code execution flaw (CVE-2017-15944) in the Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/38
Researchers from the Group-IB spotted the operations of a Russian-speaking MoneyTaker group that stole as much as $10 million from US and Russian banks.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/66591/cyber-crime/moneytaker-group.html
Recorded Future analyzed costs of various cybercriminal services sold on the dark market.
https://www.recordedfuture.com/cyber-operations-cost/
Internet traffic for organizations such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitch were briefly rerouted to Russia.
https://bgpmon.net/popular-destinations-rerouted-to-russia/
Microsoft started rolling out an update for Malware Protection Engine to fix a remotely exploitable bug discovered by the British intelligence agency.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-fixes-malware-protection-engine-bug-discovered-by-british-intelligence/
Avast open-sources RetDec machine-code decompiler for platform-independent analysis of executable files. It's based on LLVM.
https://blog.avast.com/avast-open-sources-its-machine-code-decompiler
Wireless network sniffer Kismet now supports the DJI DroneID UAV telemetry extensions.
http://blog.kismetwireless.net/2017/11/dji-uav-drone-id.html
Wazuh - Wazuh helps you to gain deeper security visibility into your infrastructure by monitoring hosts at an operating system and application level.
It supports log management and analysis, integrity monitoring, anomaly detection and compliance monitoring.
https://github.com/wazuh/wazuh
Wifiphisher is an automated victim-customized phishing attacks against Wi-Fi clients.
https://github.com/wifiphisher/wifiphisher
The German Interior Minister is preparing a law that will force device manufacturers to include backdoors within their products that law enforcement agencies could use at their discretion for legal investigations.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/germany-preparing-law-for-backdoors-in-any-type-of-modern-device/
According to the Citizen Lab, Ethiopian dissidents in the US, UK, and other countries were targeted with emails containing sophisticated commercial spyware sold by Israeli firm Cyberbit.
https://citizenlab.ca/2017/12/champing-cyberbit-ethiopian-dissidents-targeted-commercial-spyware/
Elcomsoft wrote an insight about the drastically degraded security of the Apples iOS 11 operating system.
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2017/11/ios-11-horror-story-the-rise-and-fall-of-ios-security/
Chinese drone maker D.J.I. is potentially sharing collected data with the Chinese government.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/technology/dji-china-data-drones.html
Crooks are installing cryptocurrency miners by using typosquatting npm package names. They are searching for the unregistered package names with the difference of one bit from a well known packages.
https://medium.com/avahowell/bitsquatting-npm-packages-533c988d568f
Swiftype written a good blog about their infrastructure risk assessment and threat modeling.
https://swiftype.engineering/threat-modelling-and-infrastructure-risk-assessment-at-swiftype-6c1b337c7df1
Nvidia published a paper about the clustering of a benign and malicious Windows executables using neural networks.
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/malware-detection-neural-networks/
Bucket Stream - Find interesting Amazon S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs.
https://github.com/eth0izzle/bucket-stream
Sysdig Inspect – a powerful interface for container troubleshooting and security investigation
https://github.com/draios/sysdig-inspect/