The headline on 11 July 2020
Zoom Zero-day Affects Clients Running on Older Versions of Windows. Zoom is working on a fix for a zero-day vulnerability that was disclosed on Thursday, July 9. The arbitrary code execution flaw affects the Zoom client running on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and older versions of the operating system. Zoom clients running on Windows 8 and Windows 10 are not affected.
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Palo Alto Networks Releases Updates for Another PAN-OS Vulnerability. Palo Alto Networks has released updates to fix a critical command injection vulnerability in its PAN-OS GlobalProtect portal. The flaw affects PAN-OS 9.1 versions prior to 9.1.3; PAN-OS 8.1 versions prior to 8.1.15; PAN-OS 9.0 versions prior to 9.0.9; and all versions of PAN-OS 8.0 and PAN-OS 7.1. Fixes will not be released for PAN-OS 8.0 and 7.1 as those versions are no longer supported.
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Citrix Patches 11 Vulnerabilities in Networking Products; Someone is Already Scanning for Vulnerable Installations. Earlier this week, Citrix released fixes for 11 vulnerabilities in Citrix ADC, Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliances. The flaws include information disclosure, local privilege elevation, code injection, cross-site scripting, authorization bypass, denial of service. Rob Joyce, the former head of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations (TAO) team, has urged users to apply the patches as soon as possible. Active scanning for vulnerable installations has been detected.
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Critical Flaw in WordPress Plugin. A critical remote code execution flaw in the Adning Advertising plugin for WordPress could be exploited to completely take control of vulnerable sites. The flaw has been exploited in the wild. Users are urged to update to Adning version 1.5.6, which also fixes a high-severity unauthenticated arbitrary file deletion via path traversal vulnerability.
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Russian Hacking Group Cosmic Lynx is Conducting Sophisticated eMail Scams. A group of Russian hackers dubbed Cosmic Lynx has been launching sophisticated business email compromise schemes since last July. According to researchers at Agari, the group has launched more than 200 attacks against organizations in 46 countries. Cosmic Lynx targets organizations that have not implemented DMARC; the group has focused on scams involving mergers and acquisitions.
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Criminals are Taking Control of Abandoned Subdomains. Criminals have been taking control of abandoned subdomains associated with well-known organizations and using them for nefarious purposes, including malware, pornographic content, or spreading malware. In late June, Microsoft published an article describing how to prevent subdomain takeovers.
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ThiefQuest macOS Malware More Focused on Stealing Information than on Encrypting Data. Researchers now think the ThiefQuest malware that targets macOS is largely focused on exfiltrating data from infected networks. Initial assessment of ThiefQuest categorized the malware as ransomware. While it does have an encryption component, researchers think it may be included as a distraction rather than the main purpose of the malware.
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DigiCert Will Revoke 50,000 Certificates This Weekend Because of Botched Audit. DigiCert plans to revoke 50,000 Extended Validation (EV) certificates on Saturday, July 11 after learning that they were not properly audited. While the situation does not pose a security threat, EV guidelines require that the certificates be revoked.
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Turchin Indictment Unsealed. The US Department of Justice recently unsealed an indictment charging Andrey Turchin with conspiracy to commit computer hacking, two counts of computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and access device fraud. Turchin allegedly hacked into networks at hundreds of organizations, established backdoors, and then sold access to those systems. Turchin is a citizen of Kazakhstan and is believed to be residing there currently.
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German Authorities Seize BlueLeaks Server. Authorities in Germany have seized a server hosting BlueLeaks data, 269 GB of US police documents. The department of public prosecution in Zwickau said the server was seized on July 3 at the request of the US government.
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Microsoft Seizes Domains Used in Phishing Attacks that Targeted Office 365 Users. Recently unsealed documents detail Microsoft’s efforts to thwart phishing attacks that preyed on people’s concerns about COVID-19. The attacks targeted Office 365 users in 62 countries around the world and were crafted to appear to be from employers or other trusted entities. Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit became aware of the fraudulent activity in December 2019. On July 1, Microsoft obtained a court order allowing it to seize the malicious domains.
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CISA Warns of Vulnerabilities in Medical Devices and Hospital Information Management System. The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published two advisories regarding security issues in ultrasound systems from Philips and in the OpenClinic GA open source hospital information management system. Philips has released updates to address the authentication bypass issue in some of the affected products and expects to have fixes for the rest of the affected products by the end of the calendar year.
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