Cyber Security Alerts & Threat Intelligence

Original release date: March 18, 2022 CRI-O has released a security update addressing a critical vulnerability—CVE-2022-0811—in CRI-O 1.19. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected Kubernetes environment as well as other software or platforms that use CRI-O runtime containers. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the CRI-O Security Advisory and apply the necessary updates or workarounds. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Original release date: March 17, 2022 Summary Actions to Take Today: • Use secure methods for authentication. • Enforce principle of least privilege. • Review trust relationships. • Implement encryption. • Ensure robust patching and system configuration audits. • Monitor logs for suspicious activity. • Ensure incident response, resilience, and continuity of operations plans are in place. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are aware of possible threats to U.S. and international satellite communication (SATCOM) networks. Successful intrusions into SATCOM networks could create risk in SATCOM network providers’ customer environments. Given the…

In the latest software supply-chain attack, the code maintainer added malicious code to the hugely popular node-ipc library to replace files with a heart emoji and a peacenotwar module.

Five percent of the databases are vulnerable to threat actors: It’s a gold mine of exploit opportunity in thousands of mobile apps, researchers say.

It’s about time, AttackIQ’s Jonathan Reiber said about 24H/72H report deadlines mandated in the new spending bill. As it is, visibility into adversary behavior has been muck.

Original release date: March 15, 2022 CISA has added 15 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence that threat actors are actively exploiting the vulnerabilities listed in the table below. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors of all types and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: to view the newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog, click on the arrow on the of the “Date Added to Catalog” column, which will sort by descending dates. CVE ID Vulnerability Name Due Date CVE-2020-5135 SonicWall SonicOS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 4/5/2022 CVE-2019-1405…

Original release date: March 15, 2022 Summary Multifactor Authentication (MFA): A Cybersecurity Essential • MFA is one of the most important cybersecurity practices to reduce the risk of intrusions—according to industry research, users who enable MFA are up to 99 percent less likely to have an account compromised. • Every organization should enforce MFA for all employees and customers, and every user should sign up for MFA when available. • Organizations that implement MFA should review default configurations and modify as necessary, to reduce the likelihood that a sophisticated adversary can circumvent this control. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…

The “Dirty Pipe” Linux kernel flaw – a high-severity vulnerability in all major distros that grants root access to unprivileged users who have local access – affects most of QNAP’s network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, the Taiwanese manufacturer warned on Monday. Dirty Pipe, a recently reported local privilege escalation vulnerability, affects the Linux kernel on QNAP […]

Original release date: March 15, 2022 The National Security Agency (NSA) and CISA have updated their joint Cybersecurity Technical Report (CTR): Kubernetes Hardening Guide, originally released in August 2021, based on valuable feedback and inputs from the cybersecurity community.  Kubernetes is an open-source system that automates deployment, scaling, and management of applications run in containers. A container is a runtime environment that contains a software package and its dependencies. Kubernetes is often hosted in a cloud environment. The CTR provides recommended configuration and hardening guidance for setting up and securing a Kubernetes cluster. CISA encourages users and administrators to review…

Original release date: March 14, 2022   High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info a3rev — page_view_count The Page View Count WordPress plugin before 2.4.15 does not sanitise and escape the post_ids parameter before using it in a SQL statement via a REST endpoint, available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users. As a result, unauthenticated attackers could perform SQL injection attacks 2022-03-07 7.5 CVE-2022-0434 MISC bitdefender — antivirus_plus Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the crash handling component BDReinit.exe as used in Bitdefender Total Security, Internet Security, Antivirus Plus, Endpoint Security…

Original release date: March 10, 2022 CISA is aware of a privilege escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel versions 5.8 and later known as “Dirty Pipe” (CVE-2022-0847). A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review (CVE-2022-0847) and update to Linux kernel versions 5.16.11, 5.15.25, and 5.10.102 or later. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

A new survey suggests that security is becoming more important for enterprises, but they’re still falling back on old “security by obscurity” ways.