Cyber Security Alerts & Threat Intelligence

Kerry Matre, Mandiant senior director, clears up misconceptions about the value to business for enterprise cyber-defense. Hint: It’s not achieving visibility.

Firm offers guidance on how to mitigate a five-months-old privilege escalation bug impacting Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac and all previous versions.

It’s unclear if Microsoft customers were breached during the months-long period where the #ChaosDB bug in Jupyter Notebooks was exploitable.

Original release date: August 27, 2021 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with ransomware attacks by Hive, a likely Ransomware-as-a-Service organization consisting of a number of actors using multiple mechanisms to compromise business networks, exfiltrate data and encrypt data on the networks, and attempt to collect a ransom in exchange for access to the decryption software. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the technical details, IOCs, and TTPs in FBI Flash MC-000150-MW and apply the recommend mitigations. This product is provided subject…

Original release date: August 27, 2021 The Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) will hold the virtual 2021 ICSJWG Fall Meeting, September 21—22, 2021. ICSJWG meetings facilitate relationship building among critical infrastructure stakeholders and owners/operators of industrial control systems, idea exchange regarding critical issues affecting industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity, and information sharing to reduce the risk to the nation’s industrial control systems. The ICSJWG bi-annual meeting will feature two full days of presentations, a Table-Top Exercise introductory session, technical workshop activities, and a CISA ICS Training overview. Register no later than September 17, 2021 to attend. Visit the…

Splunk’s Ryan Kovar discusses the rise in supply-chain attacks a la Kaseya & how to get ahead of encryption leaving your business a pile of broken shells. 

The worst of 13 bugs fixed by the August updates could lead to complete system compromise for users in sensitive sectors running products in Appliance mode.

Networking giant issues two critical patches and six high-severity patches.

versions of the software are affected by a spate of bugs under active exploitations.

Then again, you don’t even need the actual device – in this case, a SteelSeries peripheral – since emulation works just fine to launch with full SYSTEM rights.

Original release date: August 25, 2021 F5 has released a security advisory on vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of BIG-IP and BIG-IQ for August 2021. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the F5 security advisory and install updated software or apply the necessary mitigations as soon as possible. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Cybersecurity watchdog CitizenLab saw the new zero-day FORCEDENTRY exploit successfully deployed against iOS versions 14.4 & 14.6, blowing past Apple’s new BlastDoor sandboxing feature to install spyware on the iPhones of Bahraini activists – even one living in London at the time.