Thermostat Hijacking, MA Androids, Windows 11, Hacking Pelotons, & John McAfee – PSW #700
In the Security News for this week Paul and the crew talk: Windows 11, Drive-by RCE, Cookies for sale, McAfee has passed away, 30 Million Dell Devices at risk, & more!
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Paul Asadoorian
Principal Security Researcher at Eclypsium
- 1. Unpatched Linux Marketplace Bugs Allow Wormable Attacks, Drive-By RCE
- 2. On Homomorphic Encryptions and the RLWE problem : Part 1
- 3. Cybersecurity Companies Join Forces Against Controversial DMCA Section
- 4. A Large Number of Third-Party Libraries from Apps Are Never Updated"Veracode analyzed 13 million scans of 86,0000 customer repositories containing more than 301,000 unique software libraries and surveyed 2,000 developers in order to better understand the way in which they use third-party software. The analysis shows that over 79% of the time, developers are not updating the third-party libraries used in a codebase, even though this type of library is constantly changing."
- 5. Do you Like Cookies? Some are for sale!"The user logs off but the session is not really closed on the server-side and/or the cookie remains valid. If an attacker is able to put his hands on the browser and access cookies, it’s easy to load this cookie into another browser and… reactivate the session. This technique is called “session impersonation” or “session hijacking”. And, if the cookie is used to hold a session to an administrative interface, it could have a very bad impact! For a while, we’ve seen markets on the dark web that… are selling cookies! "
- 6. Three things that have vanished: $3.6bn in Bitcoin, a crypto investment biz, and the two brothers who ran itI put this here to, maybe, make Tyler feel a little better...
- 7. 30M Dell Devices at Risk for Remote BIOS Attacks, RCE“However, any valid wildcard certificate issued by any of the built-in Certificate Authorities contained within the BIOSConnect feature in BIOS will satisfy the secure connection condition, and BIOSConnect will proceed to retrieve the relevant files. The bundle of CA root certificates in the BIOS image was sourced from Mozilla’s root certificate file (certdata.txt).” and "Once this first “gatekeeper” bug is exploited to deliver malicious content back to the victim machine, attackers then have a choice of three distinct and independent overflow vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-21572, CVE-2021-21573, CVE-2021-21574), any of which can be used to gain pre-boot RCE on the target device"
- 8. John McAfee: Anti-virus creator found dead in prison cell"He will be remembered, rightly, as an important figure in the development of the technology scene of the 1980s and 1990s. But he will also be remembered as a deeply controversial figure, who at times seemed intent in taking a path in life that might lead to trouble."
- 9. Texas homeowners startled by “hijacked” thermostats – MarketplaceSo many questions: "Buried in the fine print of many Texas energy contracts are the words “you agree to allow EnergyHub and your thermostat provider to remotely access your thermostat."
- 10. Bash Based Ransomware Named “DarkRadiation” Targets Various Linux Distributions. – CyberWorkx
- 11. How Cyber Safe is Your Drinking Water Supply? – Krebs on Security"The report makes the case for federal funding of state and local systems to provide cybersecurity training, tools and services for those in charge of maintaining IT systems, noting that 38 percent of water systems allocate less than 1 percent of their annual budgets to cybersecurity."
- 12. Warning, This IPhone Bug can Permanently Disable the WiFi Feature in your Phone. – CyberWorkx"After joining my personal WiFi with the SSID ‘%p%s%s%s%s%n’, my iPhone permanently disabled it’s WiFi functionality. Neither rebooting nor changing SSID fixes it :~)"
- 13. Malware Hides Inside Steam Profile Pictures: What You Need to Know
- 14. CVS Health Records for 1.1 Billion Customers Exposed
- 15. Vigilante Malware Blocks Infected Computers From Downloading Pirated Software
- 16. Researcher Discovers a New Malware Evasion Technique Named “Process Ghosting”. – CyberWorkx
- 17. Researchers Discovered the Supply Chain Attack on CCTV Camera Vendor. – CyberWorkx
- 18. Mirai Botnet is back. This Time its Targeting Multiple Vulnerabilities. – CyberWorkx
- 19. Peloton Bike+ Bug Gives Hackers Complete Control" An attacker would simply insert a tiny USB key with a boot image file containing malicious code that grants them remote root access, researchers explained. “Since the attacker doesn’t need to factory unlock the bike to load the modified image, there is no sign that it was tampered with,” according to McAfee’s analysis. “With their newfound access, the hacker interferes with the Peloton’s operating system and now has the ability to install and run any programs, modify files or set up remote backdoor access over the internet.”"
- 20. Largest US propane distributor discloses ‘8-second’ data breach
- 21. Contractor Exposed the Movements of People Wearing Ankle GPS BraceletsSounds like an open S3 bucket...
- 22. How I Found A Vulnerability To Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted To It – The Zero HackAmazing write-up.
- 23. Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2021/819 – Cryptanalysis of the GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 and GEA-2
Larry Pesce
Product Security Research and Analysis Director at Finite State
- 1. An internal code repo used by New York State’s IT office was exposed online – TechCrunch
- 2. SimuLand: Understand adversary tradecraft and improve detection strategies
- 3. How I Found A Vulnerability To Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted To It – The Zero Hack
- 4. How Cyber Safe is Your Drinking Water Supply? – Krebs on Security
- 5. iPhone bug breaks WiFi when you join hotspot with unusual name
- 6. Even creepier COVID tracking: Google silently pushed app to users’ phones
- 7. Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened
Lee Neely
Retired Senior Cyber Advisor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- 1. Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new design, Start menu, and moreMicrosoft is officially confirming the name for the next release of Windows today: Windows 11. After months of teases, hints of the number 11, and a giant Windows 11 leak, Microsoft’s new operating system is official.
- 2. Windows 11 is a free upgradeMicrosoft officially unveiled Windows 11 today, and the software maker is committing to make it a free upgrade for Windows 10 users. Much like how Windows 10 was free for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users, this new Windows 11 version will be free for existing Windows 10 users.
- 3. Vulnerabilities in Dell computers allow RCE at the BIOS/UEFI level – Help Net SecurityAn estimated 30 million Dell computers are affected by several vulnerabilities that may enable an attacker to remotely execute code in the pre-boot (BIOS/UEFI) environment, Eclypsium researchers have found.
- 4. New DNS Name Server Hijack Attack Exposes Businesses, Government AgenciesResearchers found a "novel" class of DNS vulnerabilities in AWS Route53 and other DNS-as-a-service offerings that leak sensitive information on corporate and government customers, with one simple registration step.
- 5. Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee dies by suicide in prison: reportEccentric tech entrepreneur John McAfee died by suicide in a Spanish jail cell Wednesday evening — hours after reports surfaced that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the US, according to local media.
- 6. Wormable DarkRadiation Ransomware Targets Linux and Docker InstancesCybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new ransomware strain called " DarkRadiation " that's implemented entirely in Bash and targets Linux and Docker cloud containers.
- 7. Bash Ransomware DarkRadiation Targets Red Hat- and Debian-based Linux DistributionsTrendMicro investigation of DarkRadiation tools. These tools contain reconnaissance/spreader scripts, exploits for Red Hat and CentOS, binary injectors, and more. In this blog, we focus on analyzing the worm and ransomware script.
