Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: September 2024

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  • September 16, 2024

Legacy Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance Being Exploited

CISA wants everyone—and government agencies in particular—to remove or upgrade an Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) that is no longer being supported. Welcome to the security nightmare that is the Internet of Things. Tags: Internet of Things, patching Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.  

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  • September 16, 2024

Apple Drops Spyware Case Against NSO Group, Citing Risk of Threat Intelligence Exposure

Apple has filed a motion to “voluntarily” dismiss its lawsuit against commercial spyware vendor NSO Group, citing a shifting risk landscape that could lead to exposure of critical “threat intelligence” information. The development was first reported by The Washington Post on Friday. The iPhone maker said its efforts, coupled with those of others in the […]

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  • September 16, 2024

Cybercriminals Exploit HTTP Headers for Credential Theft via Large-Scale Phishing Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of ongoing phishing campaigns that abuse refresh entries in HTTP headers to deliver spoofed email login pages that are designed to harvest users’ credentials. “Unlike other phishing webpage distribution behavior through HTML content, these attacks use the response header sent by a server, which occurs before the processing of the HTML […]

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  • September 14, 2024

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at eCrime 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The event runs from September 24 through 26, 2024, and my keynote is at 8:45 AM ET on the 24th. I’m briefly speaking at the EPIC Champion of Freedom Awards in Washington, […]

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  • September 14, 2024

Ivanti Warns of Active Exploitation of Newly Patched Cloud Appliance Vulnerability

Ivanti has revealed that a newly patched security flaw in its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-8190 (CVSS score: 7.2), which allows remote code execution under certain circumstances. “An OS command injection vulnerability in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance versions 4.6 Patch 518 […]

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  • September 13, 2024

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid as a Legislative Negotiating Tactic

This is an odd story of serving squid during legislative negotiations in the Philippines.  

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  • September 13, 2024

My TedXBillings Talk

Over the summer, I gave a talk about AI and democracy at TedXBillings. The recording is live. Please share. I’m hoping for more than 200 views….  

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  • September 13, 2024

Apple Vision Pro Vulnerability Exposed Virtual Keyboard Inputs to Attackers

Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw impacting Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious attackers to infer data entered on the device’s virtual keyboard. The attack, dubbed GAZEploit, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-40865. “A novel attack that can infer eye-related biometrics from the avatar image […]

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  • September 13, 2024

17-Year-Old Arrested in Connection with Cyber Attack Affecting Transport for London

British authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a 17-year-old male in connection with a cyber attack affecting Transport for London (TfL). “The 17-year-old male was detained on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offenses in relation to the attack, which was launched on TfL on 1 September,” the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) said. The […]

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