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Liste of sources, can be found on www.secnews.physaphae.fr. 2025-05-11T06:04:35+00:00 www.secnews.physaphae.fr RiskIQ - cyber risk firms (now microsoft) 2024-08-15T22:02:58+00:00 https://community.riskiq.com/article/97bee087 www.secnews.physaphae.fr/article.php?IdArticle=8558380 True Spam,Malware,Tool,Threat,Industrial APT 42 3.0000000000000000 RiskIQ - cyber risk firms (now microsoft) 2024-08-05T10:51:17+00:00 https://community.riskiq.com/article/ed438f56 www.secnews.physaphae.fr/article.php?IdArticle=8552050 False Ransomware,Spam,Malware,Tool,Vulnerability,Threat,Mobile APT33,APT 41,APT 33,APT-C-17 3.0000000000000000 RiskIQ - cyber risk firms (now microsoft) 2024-05-13T13:30:14+00:00 https://community.riskiq.com/article/fd207107 www.secnews.physaphae.fr/article.php?IdArticle=8498946 False Spam,Malware,Tool,Vulnerability,Threat,Cloud APT 42 2.0000000000000000 RiskIQ - cyber risk firms (now microsoft) 2024-04-08T15:09:15+00:00 https://community.riskiq.com/article/974639f2 www.secnews.physaphae.fr/article.php?IdArticle=8478203 False Ransomware,Spam,Malware,Tool,Threat,Cloud APT 41 3.0000000000000000 knowbe4 - cybersecurity services CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24  |   June 13th, 2023 [The Mind\'s Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks The New Verizon DBIR is a treasure trove of data. As we will cover a bit below, Verizon reported that 74% of data breaches Involve the "Human Element," so people are one of the most common factors contributing to successful data breaches. Let\'s drill down a bit more in the social engineering section. They explained: "Now, who has received an email or a direct message on social media from a friend or family member who desperately needs money? Probably fewer of you. This is social engineering (pretexting specifically) and it takes more skill. "The most convincing social engineers can get into your head and convince you that someone you love is in danger. They use information they have learned about you and your loved ones to trick you into believing the message is truly from someone you know, and they use this invented scenario to play on your emotions and create a sense of urgency. The DBIR Figure 35 shows that Pretexting is now more prevalent than Phishing in Social Engineering incidents. However, when we look at confirmed breaches, Phishing is still on top." A social attack known as BEC, or business email compromise, can be quite intricate. In this type of attack, the perpetrator uses existing email communications and information to deceive the recipient into carrying out a seemingly ordinary task, like changing a vendor\'s bank account details. But what makes this attack dangerous is that the new bank account provided belongs to the attacker. As a result, any payments the recipient makes to that account will simply disappear. BEC Attacks Have Nearly Doubled It can be difficult to spot these attacks as the attackers do a lot of preparation beforehand. They may create a domain doppelganger that looks almost identical to the real one and modify the signature block to show their own number instead of the legitimate vendor. Attackers can make many subtle changes to trick their targets, especially if they are receiving many similar legitimate requests. This could be one reason why BEC attacks have nearly doubled across the DBIR entire incident dataset, as shown in Figure 36, and now make up over 50% of incidents in this category. Financially Motivated External Attackers Double Down on Social Engineering Timely detection and response is crucial when dealing with social engineering attacks, as well as most other attacks. Figure 38 shows a steady increase in the median cost of BECs since 2018, now averaging around $50,000, emphasizing the significance of quick detection. However, unlike the times we live in, this section isn\'t all doom and ]]> 2023-06-13T13:00:00+00:00 https://blog.knowbe4.com/cyberheistnews-vol-13-24-the-minds-bias-pretexting-now-tops-phishing-in-social-engineering-attacks www.secnews.physaphae.fr/article.php?IdArticle=8344804 False Spam,Malware,Vulnerability,Threat,Patching Uber,APT 37,ChatGPT,ChatGPT,APT 43 2.0000000000000000 Anomali - Firm Blog Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News and Threat Intelligence First-Ever Attack Leveraging Kubernetes RBAC to Backdoor Clusters (published: April 21, 2023) A new Monero cryptocurrency-mining campaign is the first recorded case of gaining persistence via Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), according to Aquasec researchers. The recorded honeypot attack started with exploiting a misconfigured API server. The attackers preceded by gathering information about the cluster, checking if their cluster was already deployed, and deleting some existing deployments. They used RBAC to gain persistence by creating a new ClusterRole and a new ClusterRole binding. The attackers then created a DaemonSet to use a single API request to target all nodes for deployment. The deployed malicious image from the public registry Docker Hub was named to impersonate a legitimate account and a popular legitimate image. It has been pulled 14,399 times and 60 exposed K8s clusters have been found with signs of exploitation by this campaign. Analyst Comment: Your company should have protocols in place to ensure that all cluster management and cloud storage systems are properly configured and patched. K8s buckets are too often misconfigured and threat actors realize there is potential for malicious activity. A defense-in-depth (layering of security mechanisms, redundancy, fail-safe defense processes) approach is a good mitigation step to help prevent actors from highly-active threat groups. MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] T1190 - Exploit Public-Facing Application | [MITRE ATT&CK] T1496 - Resource Hijacking | [MITRE ATT&CK] T1036 - Masquerading | [MITRE ATT&CK] T1489 - Service Stop Tags: Monero, malware-type:Cryptominer, detection:PUA.Linux.XMRMiner, file-type:ELF, abused:Docker Hub, technique:RBAC Buster, technique:Create ClusterRoleBinding, technique:Deploy DaemonSet, target-system:Linux, target:K8s, target:​​Kubernetes RBAC 3CX Software Supply Chain Compromise Initiated by a Prior Software Supply Chain Compromise; Suspected North Korean Actor Responsible (published: April 20, 2023) Investigation of the previously-reported 3CX supply chain compromise (March 2023) allowed Mandiant researchers to detect it was a result of prior software supply chain attack using a trojanized installer for X_TRADER, a software package provided by Trading Technologies. The attack involved the publicly-available tool SigFlip decrypting RC4 stream-cipher and starting publicly-available DaveShell shellcode for reflective loading. It led to installation of the custom, modular VeiledSignal backdoor. VeiledSignal additional modules inject the C2 module in a browser process instance, create a Windows named pipe and]]> 2023-04-25T18:22:00+00:00 https://www.anomali.com/blog/anomali-cyber-watch-two-supply-chain-attacks-chained-together-decoy-dog-stealthy-dns-communication-evilextractor-exfiltrates-to-ftp-server www.secnews.physaphae.fr/article.php?IdArticle=8331005 False Ransomware,Spam,Malware,Tool,Threat,Cloud Uber,APT 38,ChatGPT,APT 43 2.0000000000000000 GoogleSec - Firm Security Blog 1 Pixel phones also get better every few months with Feature Drops that provide the latest product updates, tips and tricks from Google. And Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro users will receive at least five years of security updates2, so your Pixel gets even more secure over time. Your protection, built into PixelYour digital life and most sensitive information lives on your phone: financial information, passwords, personal data, photos – you name it. With Google Tensor G2 and our custom Titan M2 security chip, Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro have multiple layers of hardware security to help keep you and your personal information safe. We take a comprehensive, end-to-end approach to security with verifiable protections at each layer - the network, application, operating system and multiple layers on the silicon itself. If you use Pixel for your business, this approach helps protect your company data, too. Google Tensor G2 is Pixel's newest powerful processor custom built with Google AI, and makes Pixel 7 faster, more efficient and secure3. Every aspect of Tensor G2 was designed to improve Pixel's performance and efficiency for great battery life, amazing photos and videos. Tensor's built-in security core works with our Titan M2 security chip to keep your personal information, PINs and passwords safe. Titan family chips are also used to protect Google Cloud data centers and Chromebooks, so the same hardware that protects Google servers also secures your sensitive information stored on Pixel. And, in a first for Google, Titan M2 hardware has now been certified under Common Criteria PP0084: the international gold standard for hardware security components also used for identity, SIM cards, and bankcard security chips.]]> 2022-10-11T19:22:42+00:00 http://security.googleblog.com/2022/10/google-pixel-7-and-pixel-7-pro-next.html www.secnews.physaphae.fr/article.php?IdArticle=7482584 False Spam,Malware,Vulnerability,Guideline,Industrial APT 40 None knowbe4 - cybersecurity services [Heads Up] FBI Warns Against New Criminal QR Code Scams   Email not displaying? | CyberheistNews Vol 12 #07  |   Feb. 15th., 2022 [Heads Up] FBI Warns Against New Criminal QR Code Scams QR codes have been around for many years. While they were adopted for certain niche uses, they never did quite reach their full potential. They are a bit like Rick Astley in that regard, really popular for one song, but well after the boat had sailed. Do not get me wrong, Rick Astley achieved a lot. In recent years, he has become immortalized as a meme and Rick roller, but he could have been so much more. However, in recent years, with lockdown and the drive to keep things at arms length, QR codes have become an efficient way to facilitate contactless communications, or the transfer of offers without physically handing over a coupon. As this has grown in popularity, more people have become familiar with how to generate their own QR codes and how to use them as virtual business cards, discount codes, links to videos and all sorts of other things. QRime Codes As with most things, once they begin to gain a bit of popularity, criminals move in to see how they can manipulate the situation to their advantage. Recently, we have seen fake QR codes stuck to parking meters enticing unwitting drivers to scan the code, and hand over their payment details believing they were paying for parking, whereas they were actually handing over their payment information to criminals. The rise in QR code fraud resulted in the FBI releasing an advisory warning against fake QR codes that are being used to scam users. In many cases, a fake QR code will lead people to a website that looks like the intended legitimate site. So, the usual verification process of checking the URL and any other red flags apply. CONTINUED with links and 4 example malicious QR codes on the KnowBe4 blog: https://blog.knowbe4.com/qr-codes-in-the-time-of-cybercrime ]]> 2022-02-15T14:24:51+00:00 https://blog.knowbe4.com/cyberheistnews-vol-12-07-heads-up-fbi-warns-against-new-criminal-qr-code-scams www.secnews.physaphae.fr/article.php?IdArticle=4133418 False Ransomware,Data Breach,Spam,Malware,Threat,Guideline APT 15,APT 43 None Anomali - Firm Blog Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Current Anomali ThreatStream users can query these indicators under the “anomali cyber watch” tag. Trending Cyber News and Threat Intelligence S.O.V.A. – A New Android Banking Trojan with Fowl Intentions (published: September 10, 2021) ThreatFabric researchers have discovered a new Android banking trojan called S.O.V.A. The malware is still in the development and testing phase and the threat actor is publicly-advertising S.O.V.A. for trial runs targeting banks to improve its functionality. The trojan’s primary objective is to steal personally identifiable information (PII). This is conducted through overlay attacks, keylogging, man-in-the-middle attacks, and session cookies theft, among others. The malware author is also working on other features such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and ransomware on S.O.V.A.’s project roadmap. Analyst Comment: Always keep your mobile phone fully patched with the latest security updates. Only use official locations such as the Google Play Store / Apple App Store to obtain your software, and avoid downloading applications, even if they appear legitimate, from third-party stores. Furthermore, always review the permissions an app will request upon installation. MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Input Capture - T1056 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Man-in-the-Middle - T1557 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Steal Web Session Cookie - T1539 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Network Denial of Service - T1498 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Data Encrypted for Impact - T1486 Tags: Android, Banking trojan, S.O.V.A., Overlay, Keylogging, Cookies, Man-in-the-Middle Finding Azurescape – Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances (published: September 9, 2021) Unit 42 researchers identified and disclosed critical security issues in Microsoft’s Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering that is called Azure Container Instances (ACI). A malicious Azure user could have compromised the multitenant Kubernetes clusters hosting ACI, establishing full control over other users' containers. Researchers gave the vulnerability a specific name, Azurescape, highlighting its significance: it the first cross-account container takeover in the public cloud. Analyst Comment: Azurescape vulnerabilities could have allowed an attacker to execute code on other users' containers, steal customer secrets and images deployed to the platform, and abuse ACI's infrastructure processing power. Microsoft patched ACI shortly after the discl]]> 2021-09-14T15:00:00+00:00 https://www.anomali.com/blog/anomali-cyber-watch-azurescape-cloud-threat-mshtml-0-day-in-the-wild-confluence-cloud-hacked-to-mine-monero-and-more www.secnews.physaphae.fr/article.php?IdArticle=3369753 False Ransomware,Spam,Malware,Tool,Vulnerability,Threat,Guideline Uber,APT 41,APT 15 None