===================== = End-of-Day report = =====================
Timeframe: Freitag 12-02-2021 18:00 − Montag 15-02-2021 18:00 Handler: Thomas Pribitzer Co-Handler: Robert Waldner
===================== = News = =====================
∗∗∗ Copycats imitate novel supply chain attack that hit tech giants ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- This week, hundreds of new packages have been published to the npm open-source repository named after private components being internally used by major companies. These npm packages are identical to the proof-of-concept packages created by Alex Birsan, the researcher who had recently managed to infiltrate over major 35 tech firms. --------------------------------------------- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/copycats-imitate-novel-supply...
∗∗∗ Sunbird und Hornbill: Neue Android-Spyware der Confucius-APT ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- Sicherheitsforscher entdecken zwei Schadprogramme, die sie einer pro-indischen APT-Gruppe zuordnen. Beide sollen auf kommerzieller Spyware basieren. --------------------------------------------- https://www.golem.de/news/sunbird-und-hornbill-neue-android-spyware-der-conf...
∗∗∗ Using Logstash to Parse IPtables Firewall Logs, (Sat, Feb 13th) ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- One of our reader submitted some DSL Modem Firewall logs (iptables format) and I wrote a simple logstash parser to analyze and illustrate the activity, in this case it is all scanning activity against this modem. An iptables parser exist for Filebeat, but for this example, I wanted to show how to create a simple logstash parser using Grok to parse these logs and send them to Elastic. --------------------------------------------- https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/27096
===================== = Vulnerabilities = =====================
∗∗∗ VMware vSphere Replication: Updates beseitigen remote ausnutzbare Schwachstelle ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- Für mehrere Versionen der vCenter Server-Erweiterung vSphere Replication stehen Sicherheitsupdates bereit, die eine "High"-Schwachstelle schließen. --------------------------------------------- https://heise.de/-5055247
∗∗∗ Security updates for Monday ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- Security updates have been issued by Debian (busybox, linux-4.19, openvswitch, subversion, unbound1.9, and xterm), Fedora (audacity, community-mysql, kernel, libzypp, mysql-connector-odbc, python-django, python3.10, and zypper), openSUSE (librepo, openvswitch, subversion, and wpa_supplicant), Red Hat (subversion:1.10), SUSE (kernel, openvswitch, perl-File-Path, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (postgresql-12). --------------------------------------------- https://lwn.net/Articles/846318/
∗∗∗ WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2021-0001 ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- * Versions affected: WebKitGTK before 2.30.5 and WPE WebKit before 2.30.5. * Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. * Description: An use after free issue in the AudioSourceProviderGStreamer class was addressed with improved memory management. --------------------------------------------- https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2021-0001.html
∗∗∗ Security Bulletin: Insecure HTTP Communication ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-insecure-http-communicatio...
∗∗∗ Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center (CVE-2020-4954, CVE-2020-4955, CVE-2020-4956) ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-multiple-vulnerabilities-i...
∗∗∗ Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Controller is vulnerable to privilege escalation (CVE-2020-4685) ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-cognos-controller-is-v...
∗∗∗ Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in bind CVE-2020-8622, CVE-2020-8623 and CVE-2020-8624. ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-vulnerabilities-in-bind-cv...
∗∗∗ Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in OpenSSL affects Power Hardware Management Console (CVE-2020-1971). ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-vulnerability-in-openssl-a...