Cyber Security Alerts & Threat Intelligence

Sources said the DoE suffered “damage” in the attack, which also likely extends beyond the initially known SolarWinds Orion attack vector.

Original release date: December 17, 2020<br/><h3>Summary</h3><p class=”tip-intro” style=”font-size: 15px;”><em>This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&amp;CK®) version 8 framework. See the <a href=”https://attack.mitre.org/versions/v8/”>ATT&amp;CK for Enterprise version 8</a> for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques.</em></p> <p>The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises of U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private sector organizations by an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor beginning in at least March 2020. This APT actor has demonstrated patience, operational security, and complex tradecraft in these intrusions. CISA expects that removing this threat actor from compromised environments will be…

Meanwhile, Microsoft and other vendors are quickly moving to block the Sunburst backdoor used in the attack.

A poorly configured file opens users up to site takeover.

The worm returned in recent attacks against web applications, IP cameras and routers.

Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 84 browser, fixing several flaws and delivering performance gains and Apple processor support.

Original release date: December 15, 2020 Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Apple security pages for the following products and apply the necessary updates: iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3 macOS Server 5.11 iOS 12.5 tvOS 14.3 watchOS 6.3 Safari 14.0.2 watchOS 7.2 macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Industrial, factory and medical gear remain largely unpatched when it comes to the URGENT/11 and CDPwn groups of vulnerabilities.

Original release date: December 14, 2020   High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info acdsee — photo_studio_2021 PlugInsIDE_ACDStd.apl in ACDSee Photo Studio Studio Professional 2021 14.0 Build 1705 has a User Mode Write AV starting at IDE_ACDStd!JPEGTransW+0x00000000000031aa. 2020-12-07 7.5 CVE-2020-29595 MISC anydesk — anydesk AnyDesk for macOS versions 6.0.2 and older have a vulnerability in the XPC interface that does not properly validate client requests and allows local privilege escalation. 2020-12-09 7.2 CVE-2020-27614 MISC MISC apache — storm_docker The official storm Docker images before 1.2.1 contain a blank password for a root user.…

The insider threat will go to jail for two years after compromising Cisco’s cloud infrastructure.

The attack was mounted via SolarWinds Orion, in a manual and targeted supply-chain effort.

Emails from legitimate, compromised accounts are being sent to numerous enterprise employees with the aim of stealing their O365 credentials.