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

Google Fixes GCP Composer Flaw That Could’ve Led to Remote Code Execution

A now-patched critical security flaw impacting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Composer could have been exploited to achieve remote code execution on cloud servers by means of a supply chain attack technique called dependency confusion. The vulnerability has been codenamed CloudImposer by Tenable Research. “The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to hijack an internal software […]

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  • September 16, 2024

North Korean Hackers Target Cryptocurrency Users on LinkedIn with RustDoor Malware

Cybersecurity researchers are continuing to warn about North Korean threat actors’ attempts to target prospective victims on LinkedIn to deliver malware called RustDoor. The latest advisory comes from Jamf Threat Labs, which said it spotted an attack attempt in which a user was contacted on the professional social network by claiming to be a recruiter […]

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  • September 16, 2024

From Breach to Recovery: Designing an Identity-Focused Incident Response Playbook

Imagine this… You arrive at work to a chaotic scene. Systems are down, panic is in the air. The culprit? Not a rogue virus, but a compromised identity. The attacker is inside your walls, masquerading as a trusted user. This isn’t a horror movie, it’s the new reality of cybercrime. The question is, are you […]

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  • September 16, 2024

Master Your PCI DSS v4 Compliance with Innovative Smart Approvals

The PCI DSS landscape is evolving rapidly. With the Q1 2025 deadline looming ever larger, businesses are scrambling to meet the stringent new requirements of PCI DSS v4.0. Two sections in particular, 6.4.3 and 11.6.1, are troublesome as they demand that organizations rigorously monitor and manage payment page scripts and use a robust change detection […]

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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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