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Timeframe: Montag 21-12-2020 18:00 − Dienstag 22-12-2020 18:00 Handler: Thomas Pribitzer Co-Handler: Stephan Richter
===================== = News = =====================
∗∗∗ Ransomware Task Force gegründet ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- Verschiedene Sicherheitsspezialisten haben die Ransomware Taks Force aus der Taufe gehoben. Zu den Gründungsmitgliedern gehören bekannte Namen wie Microsoft, McAfee und Citrix, aber auch kleinere Hersteller und gemeinnützige Organisationen. --------------------------------------------- https://www.zdnet.de/88390942/ransomware-task-force-gegruendet/
∗∗∗ Least Privilege Application Management - A Lesson Learned from SolarWinds Orion ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- The sophisticated, nation-state assault used to infiltrate SolarWinds Orion and then leveraged to compromise potentially thousands of its customers is astonishing in scope and potential fallout. --------------------------------------------- https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/least-privilege-application-managemen...
∗∗∗ Smart Doorbell Disaster: Many Brands Vulnerable to Attack ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- Investigation reveals device sector is problem plagued when it comes to security bugs. --------------------------------------------- https://threatpost.com/smart-doorbell-vulnerable-to-attack/162527/
∗∗∗ Patrick Wardle on Hackers Leveraging 'Powerful' iOS Bugs in High-Level Attacks ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- Noted Apple security expert Patrick Wardle discusses how cybercriminals are stepping up their game in targeting Apple users with new techniques and cyberattacks. --------------------------------------------- https://threatpost.com/patrick-wardle-on-hackers-leveraging-powerful-ios-bug...
∗∗∗ Threat Actors Increasingly Using VBA Purging in Attacks ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- Cyberattacks relying on malicious Office documents have increasingly leveraged a relatively new technique called VBA Purging, FireEye said over the weekend, when it also announced the availability of a related open source tool. --------------------------------------------- https://www.securityweek.com/threat-actors-increasingly-using-vba-purging-at...
∗∗∗ Increase in Drive-by Attacks Using SocGholish ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- The SocGholish framework is commonly used to distribute fake updates for applications such as Chrome, Firefox, Flash Player, and Microsoft Teams through drive-by downloads. Menlo Labs has reported an uptick in attacks using SocGholish. --------------------------------------------- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/collection/ef2a09a8bb57d90f200a51af7450...
∗∗∗ Meyhod - Yet Another Magecart Skimmer ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- Discovered by RiskIQ in October, Meyhod is a Magecart skimmer that researchers observed on several sites, in some cases it has been present on a site for months. The IP address that is hosting the malicious JavaScript code has several other domains associated with it that are suspected to be malicious. --------------------------------------------- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/collection/5a493a06b3a2fa9585d3f239007d...
===================== = Vulnerabilities = =====================
∗∗∗ Sicherheitslücke mit maximaler Gefahreneinstufung in Wyse-Thin-Clients von Dell ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- Zwei kritische Sicherheitslücken gefährden Dell-PCs der Wyse-Thin-Serie. Updates sind verfügbar. --------------------------------------------- https://heise.de/-4997456
∗∗∗ Security updates for Tuesday ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel and thunderbird), Debian (openjdk-8 and webkit2gtk), Fedora (gdm, mingw-openjpeg2, and openjpeg2), Mageia (compat-openssl10, golang-googlecode-net, mbedtls, openssl, and virtualbox), openSUSE (ovmf and xen), Red Hat (kernel, mariadb-connector-c, mariadb:10.3, postgresql:10, and postgresql:9.6), and SUSE (ardana-cassandra, ardana-mq, ardana-osconfig, ardana-tempest, crowbar-core, crowbar-openstack, grafana, influxdb, openstack-cinder, [...] --------------------------------------------- https://lwn.net/Articles/841099/
∗∗∗ Protecting Against an Unfixed Kubernetes Man-in-the-Middle Vulnerability (CVE-2020-8554) ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- A currently unpatched, medium-severity issue affecting all Kubernetes versions, CVE-2020-8554 can be mitigated in several ways. --------------------------------------------- https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/cve-2020-8554/
∗∗∗ BlackBerry Powered by Android Security Bulletin - December 2020 ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- http://support.blackberry.com/kb/articleDetail?language=en_US&articleNum...
∗∗∗ Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Spectrum Conductor and IBM Spectrum Conductor with Spark ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-a-vulnerability-in-ibm-jav...
∗∗∗ Security Bulletin: Publicly disclosed vulnerability from Bind affects IBM Netezza Host Management ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-publicly-disclosed-vulnera...
∗∗∗ Security Bulletin: Apache Poi as used by IBMQRadar SIEM is vulnerable to information disclosure (CVE-2019-12415, CVE-2017-12626) ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-apache-poi-as-used-by-ibmq...
∗∗∗ Apache Struts vulnerability CVE-2020-17530 ∗∗∗ --------------------------------------------- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K24608264