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This week, SpaceX docks, Anonymous returns, Apple pays, Zephyr blows, and Mobile Phishing is Expensive!
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This week, we welcome Jen Ellis, Vice President of Community & Public Affairs at Rapid7, to talk about How to Truly Disrupt Cybercrime! In the Leadership and Communications section, CISO vs. CEO: How executives rate their security posture, 3 Reasons Why Cybersecurity Is Not A Technical Problem, How to Be a Great Listener in Remote Meetings and more!
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This week, we speak with John Chirhart, Customer Experience Engineer at Google Cloud, to discuss How to Prevent Account Takeover Attacks! In our second segment, we welcome Catherine Chambers, Senior Product Manager at Irdeto, to talk about why Apps Are the New Endpoint!
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This week, we welcome Greg Foss, Senior Threat Researcher at VMware Carbon Black's Threat Analysis Unit, to talk about 2020 MITRE ATT&CK Malware Trends! In this week's Security News, NSA warns Russia-linked APT group is exploiting Exim flaw since 2019, 'Suspicious superhumans' behind rise in attacks on online services, Hackers Compromise Cisco Servers Via SaltStack Flaws, OpenSSH to deprecate SHA-1 logins due to security risk, all this and more with Special Guest Ed Skoudis, Founder of Counter Hack and Faculty Fellow at SANS Institute! In our final segment, we air a pre recorded interview with Peter Singer, Strategist at New America, and Author of Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotics Revolution, talking all things about his new novel Burn-In!
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Show news, 5G Quantum Oscillations, Ragnar, Windows Hello, Facebook, and FISA!
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Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how, over the past five years, the cybercriminal underground has seen a major shift to new platforms, communications channels, products, and services. Also, read about a new wave of Sandworm cyberattacks against email servers conducted by one of Russia’s most advanced cyber-espionage units.
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How the Cybercriminal Underground Has Changed in 5 Years
Trend Micro has been profiling the underground cybercrime community for many years. Over the past five years, it has seen a major shift to new platforms, communications channels, products, and services, as trust on the dark web erodes and new market demands emerge. Trend Micro expects the current pandemic to create yet another evolution, as cyber-criminals look to take advantage of new ways of working and systemic vulnerabilities.
Shadowserver, an Internet Guardian, Finds a Lifeline
In March, internet security group Shadowserver learned that longtime corporate sponsor Cisco was ending its support. With just weeks to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to move its data center out of Cisco’s facility—not to mention an additional $1.7 million to make it through the year—the organization was at real risk of extinction. Ten weeks later, Shadowserver has come a long way toward securing its financial future. This week, Trend Micro committed $600,000 to Shadowserver over three years, providing an important backbone to the organization’s fundraising efforts.
#LetsTalkSecurity: No Trust for the Wicked
This Week, Rik Ferguson, vice president of Security Research at Trend Micro, hosted the fourth episode of #LetsTalkSecurity featuring guest Dave Lewis, Global Advisory CISO at Duo Security. Check out this week’s episode and follow the link to find information about upcoming episodes and guests.
Principles of a Cloud Migration – Security W5H – The HOW
Security needs to be treated much like DevOps in evolving organizations, meaning everyone in the company has a shared responsibility to make sure it is implemented. It is not just a part of operations, but a cultural shift in doing things right the first time – security by default. In this blog from Trend Micro, learn 3 tips to get you started on your journey to securing the cloud.
What’s Trending on the Underground Market?
Trust has eroded among criminal interactions in the underground markets, causing a switch to e-commerce platforms and communication using Discord, which both increase user anonymization, a new Trend Micro report reveals. Determined efforts by law enforcement appear to be having an impact on the cybercrime underground as several forums have been taken down by global police entities.
Is Cloud Computing Any Safer from Malicious Hackers?
Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT world, making it easier for companies to deploy infrastructure and applications and deliver their services to the public. The idea of not spending millions of dollars on equipment and facilities to host an on-premises data center is a very attractive prospect to many. But is cloud computing any safer from malicious threat actors? Read this blog from Trend Micro to find out.
Smart Yet Flawed: IoT Device Vulnerabilities Explained
The variety and range of functions of smart devices present countless ways of improving different industries and environments. While the “things” in the internet of things (IoT) benefits homes, factories, and cities, these devices can also introduce blind spots and security risks in the form of vulnerabilities. Vulnerable smart devices open networks to attack vectors and can weaken the overall security of the internet. For now, it is better to be cautious and understand that “smart” can also mean vulnerable to threats.
Cyberattacks Against Hospitals Must Stop, Says Red Cross
Immediate action needs to be taken to stop cyberattacks targeting hospitals and healthcare organizations during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic – and governments around the world need to work together to make it happen, says a newly published open letter signed by the International Committee of the Red Cross, former world leaders, cybersecurity executives and others.
Securing the 4 Cs of Cloud-Native Systems: Cloud, Cluster, Container, and Code
Cloud-native technologies enable businesses to make the most of their cloud resources with less overhead, faster response times, and easier management. Like any technology that uses various interconnected tools and platforms, security plays a vital role in cloud-native computing. Cloud-native security adopts the defense-in-depth approach and divides the security strategies utilized in cloud-native systems into four different layers.
Coinminers Exploit SaltStack Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652
Researchers from F-Secure recently disclosed two high-severity vulnerabilities in SaltStack Salt: CVE-2020-11651, an authentication bypass vulnerability, and CVE-2020-11652, a directory traversal vulnerability. These can be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers, and all versions of SaltStack Salt before 2019.2.4 and 3000 before 3000.2 are affected. Trend Micro has witnessed attacks exploiting these vulnerabilities, notably those using cryptocurrency miners.
PonyFinal Ransomware Targets Enterprise Servers Then Bides Its Time
A Java-based ransomware known as PonyFinal has emerged, targeting enterprise systems management servers as an initial infection vector. It exfiltrates information about infected environments, spreads laterally and then waits before striking — the operators go on to encrypt files at a later date and time, when the likelihood of the target paying is deemed to be the most likely.
Qakbot Resurges, Spreads through VBS Files
Trend Micro has seen events that point to the resurgence of Qakbot, a multi-component, information-stealing threat first discovered in 2007. Feedback from Trend Micro’s sensors indicates that Qakbot detections increased overall. A notable rise in detections of a particular Qakbot sample (detected by Trend Micro as Backdoor.Win32.QBOT.SMTH) was also witnessed in early April.
CSO Insights: SBV’s Ian Keller on the Challenges and Opportunities of Working Remotely
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to change the way they operate. These abrupt changes come with a unique set of challenges, including security challenges. Ian Keller, Chief Security Officer of SBV Services in South Africa, sat down with Trend Micro and shared his thoughts on how SBV is coping with the current pandemic, the main challenges they faced when transitioning their staff to remote work, as well as how they plan to move forward.
NSA Warns of New Sandworm Attacks on Email Servers
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has published a security alert warning of a new wave of cyberattacks against email servers, attacks conducted by one of Russia’s most advanced cyber-espionage units. The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a division of the Russian military intelligence service, have been attacking email servers running the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA).
In the second part of this five series column, Trend Micro looks at the security risks to be aware of when promoting smart factories by examining overlooked attack vectors, feasible attack scenarios, and recommended defense strategies. This column is especially applicable for architects, engineers, and developers who are involved in smart factory technology.
Factory Security Problems from an IT Perspective (Part 2): People, Processes, and Technology
This blog is the second in a series that discusses the challenges that IT departments face when they are assigned the task of overseeing cybersecurity in factories and implementing measures to overcome these challenges. In this article, Trend Micro carries out an analysis to uncover the challenges that lie in the way of promoting factory security from an IT perspective.
21 Tips to Stay Secure, Private, and Productive as You Work from Home on Your Mac
If you brought a Mac home from the office, it’s likely already set up to meet your company’s security policies. But what if you are using your personal Mac to work from home? You need to outfit it for business, to protect it and your company from infections and snooping, while ensuring it continues to run smoothly over time. In this blog, learn 21 tips for staying secure, private, and productive while working from home on your Mac.
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This week, we talk Enterprise News, to talk about the MITRE ATT&CK for ICS: A Technical Deep Dive, Tufin Expands Security Automation Capabilities, Strengthen Business and Security Alignment with ThreatConnect, BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows and Mac SaaS Accelerates and Enhances Endpoint Security, Re-imaging threat detection, hunting and response with CTI, and more! In our second segment, we welcome Adam Bosnian, Executive Vice President of Global Business Development at CyberArk, discussing What Is The Real Value Of Identity In A Multi-vendor IT Environment? In our final segment, we welcome Zack Moody, Head of Global Cybersecurity & Privacy at AVX Corporation, to talk about how Cybersecurity Is a Mindset That Cannot Be Taught!
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Security needs to be treated much like DevOps in evolving organizations; everyone in the company has a responsibility to make sure it is implemented. It is not just a part of operations, but a cultural shift in doing things right the first time – Security by default. Here are a few pointers to get you started:
1. Security should be a focus from the top on down
Executives should be thinking about security as a part of the cloud migration project, and not just as a step of the implementation. Security should be top of mind in planning, building, developing, and deploying applications as part of your cloud migration. This is why the Well Architected Framework has an entire pillar dedicated to security. Use it as a framework to plan and integrate security at each and every phase of your migration.
2. A cloud security policy should be created and/or integrated into existing policy
Start with what you know: least privilege permission models, cloud native network security designs, etc. This will help you start creating a framework for these new cloud resources that will be in use in the future. Your cloud provider and security vendors, like Trend Micro, can help you with these discussions in terms of planning a thorough policy based on the initial migration services that will be used. Remember from my other articles, a migration does not just stop when the workload has been moved. You need to continue to invest in your operation teams and processes as you move to the next phase of cloud native application delivery.
3. Trend Micro’s Cloud One can check off a lot of boxes!
Using a collection of security services, like Trend Micro’s Cloud One, can be a huge relief when it comes to implementing runtime security controls to your new cloud migration project. Workload Security is already protecting thousands of customers and billions of workload hours within AWS with security controls like host-based Intrusion Prevention and Anti-Malware, along with compliance controls like Integrity Monitoring and Application Control. Meanwhile, Network Security can handle all your traffic inspection needs by integrating directly with your cloud network infrastructure, a huge advantage in performance and design over Layer 4 virtual appliances requiring constant changes to route tables and money wasted on infrastructure. As you migrate your workloads, continuously check your posture against the Well Architected Framework using Conformity. You now have your new infrastructure secure and agile, allowing your teams to take full advantage of the newly migrated workloads and begin building the next iteration of your cloud native application design.
This is part of a multi-part blog series on things to keep in mind during a cloud migration project. You can start at the beginning which was kicked off with a webinar here: https://resources.trendmicro.com/Cloud-One-Webinar-Series-Secure-Cloud-Migration.html. To have a more personalized conversation, please add me to LinkedIn!
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Nowadays, Macs are part of the work-from-home workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’ve brought a Mac from the office to home, it’s likely your IT department has already set it up to meet your company’s security policies. But what if you’re enlisting a Mac already at home to do duty for your company? You need to outfit it for business, to protect it and your company from infections and snooping, while ensuring it continues to run smoothly over time.
Here are 21 tips for staying secure, private, and productive while working from home on your Mac—while also making sure your personal “helpdesk” is in place, should you run into problems while doing your work.
While good security habits are important for all Mac users (since, contrary to popular opinion, Macs are as vulnerable to malicious attacks as PCs), you need to take special care when working from home on your Mac because you’ll be interacting with your company’s applications and platforms over the internet. Start your “security upgrade” with the Mac itself, to keep it free of viruses and malware. Make sure your security checklist includes the following:
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Next, you need to make sure your work remains private. This means creating a “chain of privacy” that extends from your Mac over the internet to your company’s servers, so that each link in the chain is “locked” to ensure your company data remains private.
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Working from home means contending with home distractions (though working in the office has its own set of distractions too). Staying productive therefore includes setting good work and break habits, physically optimizing your work-from-home Mac setup, and keeping your Mac in good working order. Effective and productive remote working, when it comes setting up good work habits, using efficiency maximizing tools, and separating work from home activities, is a whole topic in itself. Here we include only those tips that directly affect the healthy operation and optimization of your Mac:
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Finally, should things go wrong at any time with your working Mac setup, you need to make sure to have a work-from-home “Help Desk” in place for when you need it. This can include the following:
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That’s it! These tips should get you started on the road to staying secure, private, and productive, while running smoothly, as you work from home on your Mac. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are doing just that. Now is the time to keep your working Mac working for you!
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If the first few months of 2020 have taught us anything, it’s the importance of collaboration and partnership to tackle a common enemy. This is true of efforts to fight the current pandemic, and it’s also true of the fight against cybercrime. That’s why Trend Micro has, over the years, struck partnerships with various organizations that share a common goal of securing our connected world.
So when we heard that one of these partners, the non-profit Shadowserver Foundation, was in urgent need of financial help, we didn’t hesitate to step in. Our new $600,000 commitment over three years will help to support the vital work it does collecting and sharing global threat data for the next three years.
What is Shadowserver?
Founded in 2004, The Shadowserver Foundation is now one of the world’s leading resources for reporting vulnerabilities, threats and malicious activity. Their work has helped to pioneer a more collaborative approach among the international cybersecurity community, from vendors and academia to governments and law enforcement.
Today, its volunteers, 16 full-time staff and global infrastructure of sinkholes, honeypots and honeyclients help run 45 scans across 4 billion IPv4 addresses every single day. It also performs daily sandbox scans on 713,000 unique malware samples, to add to the 12 Petabytes of malware and threat intelligence already stored on its servers. Thousands of network owners, including 109 CSIRTS in 138 countries worldwide, rely on the resulting daily reports — which are available free of charge to help make the digital world a safer place.
A Global Effort
Trend Micro is a long-time partner of The Shadowserver Foundation. We automatically share new malware samples via its malware exchange program, with the end goal of improving protection for both Trend Micro customers and Shadowserver subscribers around the world. Not only that, but we regularly collaborate on global law enforcement-led investigations. Our vision and mission statements of working towards a more secure, connected world couldn’t be more closely aligned.
As COVID-19 has brutally illustrated, protecting one’s own backyard is not enough to tackle a global challenge. Instead, we need to reach out and build alliances to take on the threats and those behind them, wherever they are. These are even more pronounced at a time when remote working has dramatically expanded the corporate attack surface, and offered new opportunities for the black hats to prosper by taking advantage of distracted employees and stretched security teams.
The money Trend Micro has donated over the next three years will help the Shadowserver Foundation migrate to the new data center it urgently needs and support operational costs that combined will exceed $2 million in 2020. We wish the team well with their plans for this year.
It’s no exaggeration to say that our shared digital world is a safer place today because of their efforts, and we hope to continue to collaborate long into the future
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This week, Defcon is still cancelled, Cyber insurance?, Phishing, rogue drones, the return of the dark web, Sarwent malware, and Dutch Grandmothers in trouble. Jason Wood joins us for the Expert Commentary on how eBay users spot the online auction house port-scanning their PCs!
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Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT world, making it easier for companies to deploy infrastructure and applications and deliver their services to the public. The idea of not spending millions of dollars on equipment and facilities to host an on-premises data center is a very attractive prospect to many. And certainly, moving resources to the cloud just has to be safer, right? The cloud provider is going to keep our data and applications safe for sure. Hackers won’t stand a chance. Wrong. More commonly than anyone should, I often hear this delusion from many customers. The truth of the matter is, without proper configuration and the right skillsets administering the cloud presence, as well as practicing common-sense security practices, cloud services are just (if not more) vulnerable.
The Shared Responsibility Model
Before going any further, we need to discuss the shared responsibility model of the cloud service provider and user.
When planning your migration to the cloud, one needs to be aware of which responsibilities belong to which entity. As the chart above shows, the cloud service provider is responsible for the cloud infrastructure security and physical security of such. By contrast, the customer is responsible for their own data, the security of their workloads (all the way to the OS layer), as well as the internal network within the companies VPC’s.
One more pretty important aspect that remains in the hands of the customer is access control. Who has access to what resources? This is really no different than it’s been in the past, exception being the physical security of the data center is handled by the CSP as opposed to the on-prem security, but the company (specifically IT and IT security) are responsible for locking down those resources efficiently.
Many times, this shared responsibility model is overlooked, and poor assumptions are made the security of a company’s resources. Chaos ensues, and probably a firing or two.
So now that we have established the shared responsibility model and that the customer is responsible for their own resource and data security, let’s take a look at some of the more common security issues that can affect the cloud.
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is a truly great service from Amazon Web Services. Being able to store data, host static sites or create storage for applications are widely used use cases for this service. S3 buckets are also a prime target for malicious actors, since many times they end up misconfigured.
One such instance occurred in 2017 when Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense contractor for the United States, was pillaged of battlefield imagery as well as administrator credentials to sensitive systems.
Yet another instance occurred in 2017, when due to an insecure Amazon S3 bucket, the records of 198 million American voters were exposed. Chances are if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance this breach got you.
A more recent breach of an Amazon S3 bucket (and I use the word “breach,” however most of these instances were a result of poor configuration and public exposure, not a hacker breaking in using sophisticated techniques) had to do with the cloud storage provider “Data Deposit Box.” Utilizing Amazon S3 buckets for storage, a configuration issue caused the leak of more than 270,000 personal files as well as personal identifiable information (PII) of its users.
One last thing to touch on the subject of cloud file storage has to do with how many organizations are using Amazon S3 to store uploaded data from customers as a place to send for processing by other parts of the application. The problem here is how do we know if what’s being uploaded is malicious or not? This question comes up more and more as I speak to more customers and peers in the IT world.
API
APIs are great. They allow you to interact with programs and services in a programmatic and automated way. When it comes to the cloud, APIs allow administrators to interact with services, an in fact, they are really a cornerstone of all cloud services, as it allows the different services to communicate. As with anything in this world, this also opens a world of danger.
Let’s start with the API gateway, a common construct in the cloud to allow communication to backend applications. The API gateway itself is a target, because it can allow a hacker to manipulate the gateway, and allow unwanted traffic through. API gateways were designed to be integrated into applications. They were not designed for security. This means untrusted connections can come into said gateway and perhaps retrieve data that individual shouldn’t see. Likewise, the API requests to the gateway can come with malicious payloads.
Another attack that can affect your API gateway and likewise the application behind it, is a DDOS attack. The common answer to defend against this is Web Application Firewall (WAF). The problem is WAFs struggle to deal with low, slow DDOS attacks, because the steady stream of requests looks like normal traffic. A really great way to deter DDOS attacks at the API gateway however is to limit the number of requests for each method.
A great way to prevent API attacks lies in the configuration. Denying anonymous access is huge. Likewise, changing tokens, passwords and keys limit the chance effective credentials can be used. Lastly, disabling any type of clear-text authentication. Furthermore, enforcing SSL/TLS encryption and implementing multifactor authentication are great deterrents.
Compute
No cloud service would be complete without compute resources. This is when an organization builds out virtual machines to host applications and services. This also introduces yet another attack surface, and once again, this is not protected by the cloud service provider. This is purely the customers responsibility.
Many times, in discussing my customers’ migration from an on-premises datacenter to the cloud, one of the common methods is the “lift-and-shift” approach. This means customers take the virtual machines they have running in their datacenter and simply migrating those machines to the cloud. Now, the question is, what kind of security assessment was done on those virtual machines prior to migrating? Were those machines patched? Were discovered security flaws fixed? In my personal experience the answer is no. Therefore, these organizations are simply taking their problems from one location to the next. The security holes still exist and could potentially be exploited, especially if the server is public facing or network policies are improperly applied. For this type of process, I think a better way to look at this is “correct-and-lift-and-shift”.
Now once organizations have already established their cloud presence, they will eventually need to deploy new resources, and this can mean developing or building upon a machine image. The most important thing to remember here is that these are computers. They are still vulnerable to malware, so regardless of being in the cloud or not, the same security controls are required including things like anti-malware, host IPS, integrity monitoring and application control just to name a few.
Networking
Cloud services make it incredibly easy to deploy networks and divide them into subnets and even allow cross network communication. They also give you the ability to lock down the types of traffic that are allowed to traverse those networks to reach resources. This is where security groups come in. These security groups are configured by people, so there’s always that chance that a port is open that shouldn’t be, opening a potential vulnerability. It’s incredibly important from this perspective to really have a grasp on what a compute resource is talking to and why, so the proper security measures can be applied.
So is the cloud really safe from hackers? No safer than anything else unless organizations make sure they’re taking security in their hands and understand where their responsibility begins, and the cloud service provider’s ends. The arms war between hackers and security professionals is still the same as it ever was, the battleground just changed.
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The cybercrime economy is one of the runaway success stories of the 21st century — at least, for those who participate in it. Estimates claim it could be worth over $1 trillion annually, more than the GDP of many countries. Part of that success is due to its ability to evolve and shift as the threat landscape changes. Trend Micro has been profiling the underground cybercrime community for many years. Over the past five years, we’ve seen a major shift to new platforms, communications channels, products and services, as trust on the dark web erodes and new market demands emerge.
We also expect the current pandemic to create yet another evolution, as cyber-criminals look to take advantage of new ways of working and systemic vulnerabilities.
Shifts in the underground
Our latest report, Shifts in the Cybercriminal Underground Markets, charts the fascinating progress of cybercrime over the past five years, through detailed analysis of forums, marketplaces and dark web sites around the world. It notes that in many product areas, the cost of items has dropped as they become commoditised: so where in 2015 you expected to pay $1000 per months for crypting services, today they may be as little as $20.
In other areas, such as IoT botnets, cyber-propaganda and stolen gaming account credentials, prices are high as new products spark surging demand. Fortnite logins can sell for around $1,000 on average, for example.
The good news is that law enforcement action appears to be working. Trend Micro has long partnered with Interpol, Europol, national crime agencies and local police to provide assistance in investigations. So it’s good to see that these efforts are having an impact. Many dark web forums and marketplaces have been infiltrated and taken down over the past five years, and our researchers note that current users complain of DDoS-ing and log-in issues.
Cybercriminals have been forced to take extreme measures as trust erodes among the community, for example, by using gaming communications service Discord to arrange trades, and e-commerce platform Shoppy.gg to sell items. A new site called DarkNet Trust was even created to tackle this specific challenge: it aims to verify cybercrime vendors’ reputations by analysing their usernames and PGP fingerprints.
What does the future hold?
However, things rarely stay still on the cybercrime underground. Going forward, we expect to see a range of new tools and techniques flood dark web stores and forums. AI will be at the centre of these efforts. Just as it’s being used by Trend Micro and other companies to root out fraud, sophisticated malware and phishing, it could be deployed in bots designed to predict roll patterns on gambling sites. It could also be used in deepfake services developed to help buyers bypass photo ID systems, or launch sextortion campaigns against individuals.
Some emerging trends are less hi-tech but no less damaging. Log-ins for wearable devices could be stolen and used to request replacements under warranty, defrauding the customer and costing the manufacturers dear. In fact, access to devices, systems and accounts is so common today that we’re already seeing it spun out in “as-a-service” cybercrime offerings. Prices for access to Fortune 500 companies can hit as much as $10,000.
Post-pandemic threats
Then there’s COVID-19. We’re already seeing fraudsters targeted government stimulus money with fake applications, sometimes using phished information from legitimate businesses. And healthcare organisations are being targeted with ransomware as they battle to save lives.
Even as the pandemic recedes, remote working practices are likely to stay in many organisations. What does this mean for cybercrime? It means more targeting of VPN vulnerabilities with malware and DDoS services. And it means more opportunities to compromise corporate networks via connected home devices. Think of it like a kind of Reverse BYOD scenario – instead of bringing devices into work to connect, the corporate network is now merged with home networks.
Tackling such challenges will demand a multi-layered strategy predicated around that familiar trio: people, process and technology. It will require more training, better security for home workers, improved patch management and password security, and much more besides. But most of all it will demand continued insight into global cybercriminals and the platforms they inhabit, to anticipate where the next threats are coming from.
Fortunately, this is where Trend Micro’s expert team of researchers come in. We won’t let them out of our sight.
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Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about a new security vulnerability in Bluetooth that could potentially allow an attacker to spoof a remotely paired device. Also, learn about two malware files that pose as Zoom installers but when decoded, contain malware code.
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Forward-Looking Security Analysis of Smart Factories <Part 1> Overlooked Attack Vectors
Trend Micro recently released a paper showing the results of proof-of-concept research on new security risks associated with smart factories. In this series of five columns, Trend Micro will explore the security risks to be aware of when promoting smart factories by examining overlooked attack vectors, feasible attack scenarios, and recommended defense strategies. This first column introduces the concept of “smart manufacturing,” and explains the research methods and attack vectors that are unique to smart factories.
Backdoor, Devil Shadow Botnet Hidden in Fake Zoom Installers
Trend Micro found two malware files that pose as Zoom installers but when decoded, contain malware code. These malicious fake installers do not come from Zoom’s official installation distribution channels. One of the samples installs a backdoor that allows threat actors to run malicious routines remotely, while the other sample involves the installation of the Devil Shadow botnet in devices.
Adobe Releases Critical Out-of-Band Security Update
This week, Adobe released four security updates, one of them being an out-of-band security update for Adobe Character Animator that fixes a critical remote code execution vulnerability. All these vulnerabilities were discovered by Mat Powell of Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative and were not found in the wild.
QNodeService: Node.js Trojan Spread via Covid-19 Lure
Trend Micro recently noticed a Twitter post by MalwareHunterTeam that showed a Java downloader with a low detection rate. Its name, “Company PLP_Tax relief due to Covid-19 outbreak CI+PL.jar”, suggests it may have been used in a Covid-19-themed phishing campaign. Running this file led to the download of a new, undetected malware sample written in Node.js; this trojan is dubbed as “QNodeService”.
ShinyHunters Is a Hacking Group on a Data Breach Spree
In the first two weeks of May, a hacking group called ShinyHunters went on a rampage, hawking what it claims is close to 200 million stolen records from at least 13 companies. Such binges aren’t unprecedented in the dark web stolen data economy, but they’re a crucial driver of identity theft and fraud.
Netwalker Fileless Ransomware Injected via Reflective Loading
Trend Micro has observed Netwalker ransomware attacks involving malware that is not compiled but written in PowerShell and executed directly in memory and without storing the actual ransomware binary into the disk. This makes this ransomware variant a fileless threat, enabling it to maintain persistence and evade detection by abusing tools that are already in the system to initiate attacks.
Beware of Phishing Emails Urging for a LogMeIn Security Update
LogMeIn users are being targeted with fake security update requests, which lead to a spoofed phishing page. The phishing email has been made to look like it’s coming from LogMeIn. Not only does the company logo feature prominently in the email body, but the sender’s identity has been spoofed and the phishing link looks, at first glance, like it might be legitimate.
Phishing Site Uses Netflix as Lure, Employs Geolocation
A phishing site was found using a spoofed Netflix page to harvest account information, credit card credentials, and other personally identifiable information (PII), according to a Twitter post by PartnerRe Information Security Analyst Andrea Palmieri. Trend Micro looked into the malicious site, hxxp://secure-up-log.com/netflix/, to learn more about the operation and found that the sites have geolocation features.
New Bluetooth Vulnerability Exposes Billions of Devices to Hackers
Academics from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) disclosed a security vulnerability in Bluetooth that could potentially allow an attacker to spoof a remotely paired device, exposing over a billion modern devices to hackers. The attacks, dubbed Bluetooth Impersonation Attacks or BIAS, concern Bluetooth Classic, which supports Basic Rate (BR) and Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) for wireless data transfer between devices.
#LetsTalkSecurity: Fighting Back
This Week, Rik Ferguson, vice president of Security Research at Trend Micro, hosted the third episode of #LetsTalkSecurity featuring guest Katelyn Bowden, CEO & founder of The BADASS Army. In this week’s episode, Rik and Katelyn discuss fighting back and more. Check out this week’s episode and follow the link to find information about upcoming episodes and guests.
Fraudulent Unemployment, COVID-19 Relief Claims Earn BEC Gang Millions
An infamous business email compromise (BEC) gang has submitted hundreds of fraudulent claims with state-level U.S. unemployment websites and coronavirus relief funds. Behind the attacks is Scattered Canary, a highly organized Nigerian cybergang that employs dozens of threat actors to target U.S. enterprise organizations and government institutions. Researchers who tracked the fraudulent activity said the gang may have made millions from the fraudulent activity.
Factory Security Problems from an IT Perspective (Part 1): Gap Between the Objectives of IT and OT
The manufacturing industry is undergoing drastic changes and entering a new transition period. Today, it may be difficult to find companies that don’t include Digital Transformation (DX) or the Internet of Things (IoT) in their strategies. Manufacturing companies need to include cybersecurity in both the information technology (IT) domain and the operational technology (OT) one as well. This three-part blog series discusses the challenges that IT departments face when assigned the task of overseeing cybersecurity in factories and implementing measures to overcome these challenges.
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This week, we welcome Jason Nickola, COO and Senior Security Consultant at Pulsar Security, to talk about Building An InfoSec Career! In our second segment, we welcome back Sven Morgenroth, Security Researcher at Nesparker, to talk about HTTP Security Headers In Action! In the Security News, Hackers target the air-gapped networks of the Taiwanese and Philippine military, Stored XSS in WP Product Review Lite plugin allows for automated takeovers, Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Patched in VMware Cloud Director, Shodan scan of new preauth RCE shows 450k devices at risk including all QNAP devices, and The 3 Top Cybersecurity Myths & What You Should Know!
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This week, we talk Enterprise News, to discuss how RSA Conference 2021 Changes Date from February to May 2021, Docker partners with Snyk on container image vulnerability scanning, Venafi acquires Jetstack to bring together developer speed and enterprise security, Onapsis expands assessments for its Business Risk Illustration service, Volterra launches VoltShare to simplify the process of securely encrypting confidential data end-to-end, and more! In our second segment, we welcome Dan DeCloss, President & CEO of PlexTrac, to talk about Managing Enterprise Security Assessments! In our final segment, we welcome DJ Sampath, Co-Founder & CEO of Armorblox, to discuss Dealing with Phishing Attacks Outside Of Email!
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This week, we welcome Ann Cleaveland, the Executive Director of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, a research and collaboration think tank housed within the University of California, Berkeley School of Information! We have the pleasure of having Ann for the entire show today in this two part interview!
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This week, Dr. Doug returns to the studio, to discuss how DEFCON is Cancelled, Many Applications have Security flaws, Verizon Security Report for 2019, The FBI and DoJ want encryption backdoors, and Space, the final Frontier! The Master of Commentary Jason Wood joins us to talk about how a Ransomware Gang Was Arrested for Spreading Locky to Hospitals!
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This week, we welcome Mike Adler, Vice President of RSA NetWitness Platform at RSA Security, for a conversation on the question: Is the Virtual SOC Our "New Normal"? In the Leadership and Communications segment, Burnt out CISOs are a huge cyber risk, to build strategy, start with the future, 78% of Organizations Use More than 50 Cybersecurity Products to Address Security Issues, and more!
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This week, we welcome Jack Zarris, Senior Sales Engineer at Signal Sciences, to talk about Using Rate Limiting to Protect Web Apps and APIs! In our second segment, we welcome Tim Mackey, Principal Security Strategist at Synopsys, to discuss the Highlights From the New Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report!
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This week, we welcome back Mike Nichols, Head of Product at Elastic Security, to talk about MITRE ATT&CK & Security Visibility: Looking Beyond Endpoint Data! In our second segment, we welcome back Harry Sverdlove, Founder and CTO of Edgewise Networks, to discuss Securing Remote Access, Quarantines, and Security! In the Security News, Palo Alto Networks Patches Many Vulnerabilities in PAN-OS, Zerodium will no longer acquire certain types of iOS exploits due to surplus, New Ramsay Malware Can Steal Sensitive Documents from Air-Gapped Networks, vBulletin fixes critical vulnerability so patch immediately!, U.S. Cyber Command Shares More North Korean Malware Variants, and The Top 10 Most-Targeted Security Vulnerabilities!
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Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about how researchers at Trend Micro used an app store to demonstrate hacks on a manufacturing facility. Also, learn about this month’s patch activity from Microsoft.
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How Two Researchers Used an App Store to Demonstrate Hacks on a Factory
When malicious code spread through the networks of Rheinmetall Automotive, it disrupted plants on two continents, temporarily costing up to $4 million each week. While awareness of these type of threats has grown, there’s still a risk that too many organizations view such attacks as isolated incidents, rather than the work of a determined attacker. Federico Maggi, a senior researcher at Trend Micro, set out to dispel that mindset.
#LetsTalkSecurity: Hacker Adventures
This Week, Rik Ferguson, Vice President of Security Research at Trend Micro, hosted the second episode of #LetsTalkSecurity featuring Jayson E. Street, Vice President at SphereNY. This series explores security and how it impacts our digital world. In discussion with some of the brightest and most influential minds in the community, Trend Micro explores this fascinating topic. Check out this week’s episode and follow the link to find information about upcoming episodes and guests.
Microsoft Again Surpasses 100 Vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday
For the third consecutive month Microsoft issued a hefty list of Patch Tuesday security updates covering 111 CVEs with 16 making the critical list. This is the third month Microsoft has had more than 100 vulnerabilities listed in its monthly security rollup, but unlike the last few months, May’s list does not contain any vulnerabilities currently being exploited in the wild.
Principles of a Cloud Migration – Security W5H – The WHERE
Where do we add security in the cloud? Start by removing the thinking that security controls are tied to specific implementations. You don’t need an intrusion prevention wall that’s a hardware appliance much like you don’t need an agent installed to do anti-malware. This blog puts the focus on your configuration, permissions, and other best practices.
Trend Micro recently published a report that surveys the Industry 4.0 attack surface, finding that within the manufacturing operation, the blending of IT and OT exposes additional attack surfaces. In the current report on rogue robots, Trend Micro collaborated with the Politecnico di Milano to analyze the range of specific attacks today’s robots face, and the potential consequences those attacks may have.
Package Delivery Giant Pitney Bowes Confirms Second Ransomware Attack in 7 Months
Package and mail delivery giant Pitney Bowes suffered its second ransomware attack in seven months. The incident came to light after a ransomware gang known as Maze published a blog post claiming to have breached and encrypted the company’s network. The Maze crew provided proof of access in the form of 11 screenshots portraying directory listings from inside the company’s computer network.
Tropic Trooper’s Back: USBferry Attack Targets Air-Gapped Environments
Trend Micro recently found that Tropic Trooper’s latest activities center around targeting Taiwanese and the Philippine military’s physically isolated networks through a USBferry attack. Trend Micro also observed targets among military/navy agencies, government institutions, military hospitals, and a national bank. The group employs USBferry, a USB malware that performs different commands on specific targets, maintains stealth in environments, and steals critical data through USB storage.
Texas Courts Won’t Pay Up in Ransomware Attack
A ransomware attack has hit the IT office that supports Texas appellate courts and judicial agencies, leading to their websites and computer servers being shut down. The office said that it will not pay the ransom requested by the cybercriminals. Specifically affected is the Office of Court Administration, which is the IT provider for the appellate courts and state judicial agencies within the Texas Judicial Branch.
New MacOS Dacls RAT Backdoor Show Lazarus’ Multi-Platform Attack Capability
Trend Micro found an application sample in April called TinkaOTP that seemed like a normal one-time password authentication tool. However, further investigation showed the application bearing a striking resemblance to Dacls remote access trojan (RAT), a Windows and Linux backdoor that 360 Netlab discovered in December 2019.
Facebook Awards Researcher $20,000 for Account Hijacking Vulnerability
Security researcher Vinoth Kumar says Facebook awarded him $20,000 after he discovered and reported a Document Object Model-based cross-site scripting (DOM XSS) vulnerability that could have been exploited to hijack accounts. The researcher says he discovered the vulnerability in the window.postMessage() method, which is meant to safely enable cross-origin communication between Window objects.
Cloud Security: Key Concepts, Threats, and Solutions
Enterprises may be migrating requirements to the cloud, starting fully in the cloud (going “cloud native”), or mastering their cloud-based security strategy. Regardless of what stage of the cloud journey a company is in, cloud administrators should be able to conduct security operations like performing vulnerability management, identifying important network events, carrying out incident response, and gathering and acting on threat intelligence — all while keeping many moving parts in compliance with relevant industry standards.
From Bugs to Zoombombing: How to Stay Safe in Online Meetings
Forced to now work, study, and socialize at home, the online digital world has become essential to our communications — and video conferencing apps have become our “face-to-face” window on the world. The problem is that as users flock to these services, the bad guys are also waiting to disrupt or eavesdrop on chats, spread malware, and steal data. In this blog, Trend Micro explores some of the key threats out there and how users can stay safe while video conferencing.
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