Cyber Security Alerts & Threat Intelligence

Original release date: January 27, 2022 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a Private Industry Notification (PIN) that provides a historical overview of Iran-based cyber company Emennet Pasargad’s tactics, techniques, and procedures to enable readers to identify and defend against the group’s malicious cyber activities. CISA encourages users and administrators to review FBI PIN: Context and Recommendations to Protect Against Malicious Activity by Iranian Cyber Group Emennet Pasargad and apply the recommended mitigations. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

iOS 15.3 & iPadOS 15.3 fix the Safari browser flaw that could have spilled users’ browsing data, plus a zero day IOMobileFrameBuffer bug exploited in the wild.

Need a blueprint for architecting a formidable cyber-defense? Kerry Mandiant, senior director at Mandiant, shares hers in this detailed breakdown.

The 12-year-old flaw in the sudo-like polkit’s pkexec tool, found in all major Linux distributions, is likely to be exploited in the wild within days.

Visitors who shopped on the company’s eCommerce website in January will likely find their payment-card data heisted, researchers warned.

A pro-democracy Hong Kong site was used to launch watering-hole attacks that planted a powerful macOS backdoor that researchers dubbed DazzleSpy.

A critical security bug and a months-long, ongoing supply-chain attack spell trouble for WordPress users.

Original release date: January 24, 2022   High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info adobe — acrobat_dc Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20099 (and earlier), 20.004.30017 (and earlier) and 17.011.30204 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of Format event actions that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. 2022-01-14 9.3 CVE-2021-45062 MISC adobe — acrobat_dc Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20099 (and earlier), 20.004.30017 (and earlier) and 17.011.30204…

The two flaws in Control Web Panel – a popular web hosting management software used by 200K+ servers – allow code execution as root on Linux servers.

QR codes have become a go-to staple for contactless transactions of all sorts during the pandemic, and the FBI is warning cybercriminals are capitalizing on their lax security to steal data and money, and drop malware.

The bug can allow attackers to remotely execute code on gamers’ computers. The devs temporarily deactivated PvP servers across multiple affected versions.

Original release date: January 24, 2022 CISA has published an infographic to emphasize the importance of implementing network segmentation—a physical or virtual architectural approach that divides a network into multiple segments, each acting as its own subnetwork, to provide additional security and control that can help prevent or minimize the impact of a cyberattack. CISA encourages network architects, defenders, and administrators to review the infographic, Layering Network Security Through Segmentation, and implement its recommendations where possible. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.