Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: November 2023

Simplify Your High-Level Risk Assessments

Simplify Your High-Level Risk Assessments Navigating the treacherous waters of risk assessment can be daunting for many organizations. But fear not, for the art of risk assessment can be distilled into actionable, understandable steps, irrespective of how convoluted the initial scenario may appear. In a world where risks evolve continuously, understanding how to break them […]

High-Level Risk Assessment
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  • November 23, 2023

N. Korean Hackers Distribute Trojanized CyberLink Software in Supply Chain Attack

A North Korean state-sponsored threat actor tracked as Diamond Sleet is distributing a trojanized version of a legitimate application developed by a Taiwanese multimedia software developer called CyberLink to target downstream customers via a supply chain attack. “This malicious file is a legitimate CyberLink application installer that has been modified to include malicious code that […]

Cyber News
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  • November 22, 2023

New Flaws in Fingerprint Sensors Let Attackers Bypass Windows Hello Login

A new research has uncovered multiple vulnerabilities that could be exploited to bypass Windows Hello authentication on Dell Inspiron 15, Lenovo ThinkPad T14, and Microsoft Surface Pro X laptops. The flaws were discovered by researchers at hardware and software product security and offensive research firm Blackwing Intelligence, who found the weaknesses in the fingerprint sensors […]

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  • November 22, 2023

North Korean Hackers Pose as Job Recruiters and Seekers in Malware Campaigns

North Korean threat actors have been linked to two campaigns in which they masquerade as both job recruiters and seekers to distribute malware and obtain unauthorized employment with organizations based in the U.S. and other parts of the world. The activity clusters have been codenamed Contagious Interview and Wagemole, respectively, by Palo Alto Networks Unit […]

Cyber News
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  • November 22, 2023

Apple to Add Manual Authentication to iMessage

Signal has had the ability to manually authenticate another account for years. iMessage is getting it: The feature is called Contact Key Verification, and it does just what its name says: it lets you add a manual verification step in an iMessage conversation to confirm that the other person is who their device says they […]

Cyber News
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  • November 22, 2023

AI Solutions Are the New Shadow IT

Ambitious Employees Tout New AI Tools, Ignore Serious SaaS Security Risks Like the SaaS shadow IT of the past, AI is placing CISOs and cybersecurity teams in a tough but familiar spot. Employees are covertly using AI with little regard for established IT and cybersecurity review procedures. Considering ChatGPT’s meteoric rise to 100 million users […]

Cyber News
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  • November 22, 2023

ClearFake Campaign Expands to Target Mac Systems with Atomic Stealer

The macOS information stealer known as Atomic is now being delivered to target via a bogus web browser update chain tracked as ClearFake. “This may very well be the first time we see one of the main social engineering campaigns, previously reserved for Windows, branch out not only in terms of geolocation but also operating […]

Cyber News
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  • November 22, 2023

LockBit Ransomware Exploiting Critical Citrix Bleed Vulnerability to Break In

Multiple threat actors, including LockBit ransomware affiliates, are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler application delivery control (ADC) and Gateway appliances to obtain initial access to target environments. The joint advisory comes from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Multi-State Information Sharing and […]

Cyber News

SEC Declares Open Season On CISOs

SEC Declares Open Season On CISOs Cyber Lapses Could Now Put Their Heads on the Legal Chopping Block This Thanksgiving, while tables across America are set for a traditional feast, CISOs find themselves on a less savory menu – dodging the carving knives of the SEC’s latest crackdown. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) […]

Cyber Thoughts