Cyber Security Alerts & Threat Intelligence

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The bug could allow cyberattackers to bypass security products, tamper with data and run code in kernel mode.

Original release date: July 20, 2021 Protecting our Nation’s critical infrastructure is the responsibility of federal and state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments and owners and operators of that infrastructure. The cybersecurity threats posed to the industrial control systems (ICS) that control and operate critical infrastructure are among the most significant and growing issues confronting our Nation. To raise awareness of the risks to—and improve the cyber protection of—critical infrastructure, CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory as well as updates to five alerts and advisories. These alerts and advisories contain information…

Original release date: July 20, 2021 Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. Note: CISA released technical information, including indicators of compromise (IOCs), provided in this advisory in 2012 to affected organizations and stakeholders. This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory—coauthored by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)—provides information on a spearphishing and intrusion campaign conducted by state-sponsored Chinese actors that occurred from December 2011 to 2013, targeting U.S. oil and natural gas…

A format-string bug believed to be a low-risk denial-of-service issue turns out to be much nastier than expected.

Original release date: July 19, 2021 Fortinet has released security advisory FG-IR-21-067 to address a use-after-free vulnerability in the FortiManager fgfmsd daemon. A use-after-free condition occurs when a program marks a section of memory as free but then subsequently tries to use that memory, which could result in a program crash. The use of previously freed memory in FortiManager fgfmsd daemon may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code as root. This occurs via sending a specifically crafted request to the fgfm port of the targeted device. Note that FortiAnalyzer is only vulnerable where it supports FortiManager features…

Original release date: July 19, 2021   High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info echobh — sharecare Echo ShareCare 8.15.5 is susceptible to SQL injection vulnerabilities when processing remote input from both authenticated and unauthenticated users, leading to the ability to bypass authentication, exfiltrate Structured Query Language (SQL) records, and manipulate data. 2021-07-13 7.5 CVE-2021-33578 MISC echobh — sharecare An issue was discovered in Echo ShareCare 8.15.5. It does not perform authentication or authorization checks when accessing a subset of sensitive resources, leading to the ability for unauthenticated users to access pages that…

Original release date: July 19, 2021 CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) have observed increasingly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored activity targeting U.S. political, economic, military, educational, and critical infrastructure personnel and organizations. In response: The White House has released a statement attributing recent Microsoft Exchange server exploitation activity to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The Department of Justice has indicted four Chinese cyber actors from the advanced persistent threat (APT) group APT40 for malicious cyber activities, carried out on orders from PRC Ministry of State Security (MSS) Hainan State Security Department (HSSD). These…

Original release date: July 19, 2021 Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was written by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide information on a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known in open-source reporting as APT40. This advisory provides APT40’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) to help cybersecurity practitioners identify and remediate APT40 intrusions and established footholds. APT40—aka BRONZE MOHAWK, FEVERDREAM, G0065, Gadolinium, GreenCrash, Hellsing, Kryptonite Panda, Leviathan, MUDCARP, Periscope, Temp.Periscope, and Temp.Jumper—is located in Haikou, Hainan Province, People’s Republic of China (PRC), and has been…

Original release date: July 19, 2021 Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9, and MITRE D3FEND™ framework, version 0.9.2-BETA-3. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques and the D3FEND framework for referenced defensive tactics and techniques. The National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assess that People’s Republic of China state-sponsored malicious cyber activity is a major threat to U.S. and Allied cyberspace assets. Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors aggressively target U.S. and allied political, economic, military, educational, and…

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