Cyber Security Alerts & Threat Intelligence

Original release date: May 13, 2022 CISA is temporarily removing CVE-2022-26925 from its Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog due to a risk of authentication failures when the May 10, 2022 Microsoft rollup update is applied to domain controllers. After installing May 10, 2022 rollup update on domain controllers, organizations might experience authentication failures on the server or client for services, such as Network Policy Server (NPS), Routing and Remote access Service (RRAS), Radius, Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), and Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP). Microsoft notified CISA of this issue, which is related to how the mapping of certificates to machine accounts is…

Tony Lauro, director of security technology and strategy at Akamai, discusses reducing your company’s attack surface and the “blast radius” of a potential attack.

Original release date: May 9, 2022 | Last revised: May 11, 2022   High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info N/A — N/A   On F5 BIG-IP 16.1.x versions prior to 16.1.2.2, 15.1.x versions prior to 15.1.5.1, 14.1.x versions prior to 14.1.4.6, 13.1.x versions prior to 13.1.5, and all 12.1.x and 11.6.x versions, undisclosed requests may bypass iControl REST authentication. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated 2022-05-05 7.5 CVE-2022-1388 MISC Back to top   Medium Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source…

Dell and HP were among the first to release patches and fixes for the bug.

Original release date: May 11, 2022 The cybersecurity authorities of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States have released joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Protecting Against Cyber Threats to Managed Service Providers and their Customers, to provide guidance on how to protect against malicious cyber activity targeting managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers. The CSA—created in response to reports of increased activity against MSPs and their customers—provides specific guidance for both MSPs and customers aimed at enabling transparent discussions on securing sensitive data. The CSA also provides tactical actions for MSPs and customers, including: Identify and…

Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday roundup also included critical fixes for a number of flaws found in infrastructure present in many enterprise and cloud environments.

Why a private college that stayed in business for 157 years had to close after the combo of COVID-19 and ransomware proved too much.

Original release date: May 11, 2022 Summary Tactical actions for MSPs and their customers to take today: • Identify and disable accounts that are no longer in use. • Enforce MFA on MSP accounts that access the customer environment and monitor for unexplained failed authentication. • Ensure MSP-customer contracts transparently identify ownership of ICT security roles and responsibilities. The cybersecurity authorities of the United Kingdom (NCSC-UK), Australia (ACSC), Canada (CCCS), New Zealand (NCSC-NZ), and the United States (CISA), (NSA), (FBI) are aware of recent reports that observe an increase in malicious cyber activity targeting managed service providers (MSPs) and expect…

Original release date: May 9, 2022 | Last revised: May 10, 2022 Microsoft has released a security advisory to address a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Pipelines. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.  CISA encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft Advisory ADV220001 for more information and to apply the necessary updates.  This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Original release date: May 10, 2022 CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have updated the joint cybersecurity advisory, Strengthening Cybersecurity of SATCOM Network Providers and Customers, originally released March 17, 2022, with U.S. government attribution to Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors. The United States assesses Russia launched cyberattacks in late February against commercial satellite communications networks to disrupt Ukrainian command and control during the Russia invasion, and those actions had spillover impacts into other European countries. CISA is working with both international and JCDC partners to strengthen our collective cybersecurity resilience—especially in the critical infrastructure that governments and…

The bug has a severe rating of 9.8, public exploits are released.

A huge spike in fraudulent activities related to attacks leveraging business email accounts is a billion-dollar-problem.