/ Account Takeover Vulnerability in a Popular Package, Affecting 1000+ Organizations


illustria’s research team finds a popular npm package with nearly 4 million weekly downloads, vulnerable to account takeover attack..:

https://blog.illustria.io/illustria-discovers-account-takeover-vulnerability-in-a-popular-package-affecting-1000-8aaaf61ebfc4?gi=10ee34fdeff8

/ Dirty bug in HAProxy's headers processing, and that, when properly exploited, this bug allows to build an HTTP content smuggling attack

HAProxy Security Update (CVE-2023-25725)

https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg43229.html

/ GoDaddy > GoHacked

Official statement on recent website redirect issues:

https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/company-news/news-details/2023/Statement-on-recent-website-redirect-issues/default.aspx

/ Trellix Advanced Research Center Discovers a New Privilege Escalation Bug Class on macOS and iOS

https://www.trellix.com/en-us/about/newsroom/stories/research/trellix-advanced-research-center-discovers-a-new-privilege-escalation-bug-class-on-macos-and-ios.html

/ QR code generator My QR Code leaks users’ login data and addresses

https://www.hackread.com/qr-code-generator-my-qr-code-data-leak/

/ VMware Carbon Black App Control updates address an injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-20858)

Hight

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0004.html

/ VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3k Release Notes

Critical patch

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-70u3k-release-notes.html#resolvedissues

/ CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

..These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise..:

https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-activity/2023/02/21/cisa-adds-three-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

/ Analysis of the WinorDLL64 payload

WinorDLL64 payload serves as a backdoor that most notably acquires extensive system information, provides means for file manipulation, such as exfiltrating, overwriting, and removing files, and executes additional commands..:

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2023/02/23/winordll64-backdoor-vast-lazarus-arsenal/

/ Evasive cryptojacking malware targeting macOS found lurking in pirated applications

https://www.jamf.com/blog/cryptojacking-macos-malware-discovered-by-jamf-threat-labs/

/ Bypassing Akamai’s Web Application Firewall Using an Injected Content-Encoding Header

https://www.praetorian.com/blog/using-crlf-injection-to-bypass-akamai-web-app-firewall/

/ How NPM Packages Were Used to Spread Phishing Links

https://checkmarx.com/blog/how-npm-packages-were-used-to-spread-phishing-links/

Extract clear text passwords from Okta

— https://github.com/authomize/okta_scim_attack_tool

/ Researchers find hidden vulnerabilities in hundreds of Docker containers

..a note about not trusting containers from docker hub..:

— https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/02/23/hidden-vulnerabilities-docker-containers/

/ New WhiteSnake Stealer Offered for Sale Via MaaS Model

A Stealer Capable of Targeting Both Windows and Linux Users..

— https://blog.cyble.com/2023/02/24/new-whitesnake-stealer-offered-for-sale-via-maas-model/

/ Malicious (and fake) ChatGPT client for Windows

Cybercriminals are distributing a Trojan stealer under the guise of a ChatGPT desktop client for Windows. We delve into the details and ways to protect yourself.

— https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/chatgpt-stealer-win-client/47274/

/ EXFILTRATOR-22 – An Emerging Post-Exploitation Framework

Preliminary analysis of a new post- exploitation framework called EXFILTRATOR-22 a.k.a. EX-22.
Research with MITRE mapping:

— https://www.cyfirma.com/outofband/exfiltrator-22-an-emerging-post-exploitation-framework/

Linux System Checker Script Tool

Linux System Checker Tool Script it is a bash noscript which can show system info, system load info, test disk speed I/O, show free space and more... System Checker can checks and shows Linux system info like as:

▫️ System Information
▫️ CPU and Memory Information
▫️ Boot Information
▫️ Mount and HDD IO Info
▫️ Top 5 memory and CPU usage processes
▫️ Speedtest
▫️ Defined Systemd Units Services State
▫️ Logged/Process users info
▫️ Listen ports
▫️ Running systemd units as list/tree
▫️ Unowned files

- [en]: Linux System Checker
- [ru]: Скрипт проверки Linux

Тест на Observability: Мониторинг, Логирование, Трейсинг
 
Оценить свои навыки в отношении построения систем оповещений, мониторинга и логирования, таких как Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Apache kafka, etc. можно попробовать при помощи теста к онлайн-курсу "Observability: мониторинг, логирование, трейсинг"

Админ Linux, DevOps или разработчик должен грамотно управлять бесчисленным множеством серверов, при помощи теста можно проверить себя и посмотреть какие observability тематики предлагает курс.

Как результат можно будет:
— оценить свои навыки
— занять место по спец. цене
— получить доступ к демо-занятиям курса

Детали здесь: https://otus.pw/I3On/
 

/ Introducing a big update to Windows 11 making the everyday easier including bringing the new AI-powered Bing to the taskbar

— MS Blog Article

/ BlackLotus UEFI bootkit

The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality:

— https://www.welivesecurity.com/2023/03/01/blacklotus-uefi-bootkit-myth-confirmed/