Tageszusammenfassung - 28.12.2020

End-of-Day report

Timeframe: Mittwoch 23-12-2020 18:00 - Montag 28-12-2020 18:00 Handler: Thomas Pribitzer Co-Handler: Stephan Richter

News

Jahresrückblick 2020: Diese Themen beschäftigten uns heuer!

Die Corona-Krise hat 2020 die ganze Welt in Atem gehalten. Auch bei der Watchlist Internet blieb die Corona-Krise nicht unbemerkt. Kriminelle nutzten die globale Gesundheitskrise für verschiedene Betrugsmaschen - von Fake-Shops, die Atemschutzmasken in ihr Angebot aufnahmen, über betrügerische Jobangebote bis hin zu Phishing-Nachrichten. Ebenfalls mit verschiedenen Betrugsmaschen in Verbindung steht der wachsende Trend von unseriöser Werbung. Fake-Shops werden dabei [...]

https://www.watchlist-internet.at/news/jahresrueckblick-2020-diese-themen-beschaeftigten-uns-heuer/


Amazon-Geschenkkarte mit Banking-Trojaner Dridex

Ein unwillkommenes Mitbringsel präsentiert eine angebliche Amazon-Geschenkkarte. Unaufmerksame Verbraucher werden mit dem Banking-Trojaner Dridex bestohlen.

https://www.zdnet.de/88391026/amazon-geschenkkarte-mit-banking-trojaner-dridex/


Hacker missbrauchen Citrix-Geräte für DDoS-Attacken

Bedrohungsakteure haben eine Möglichkeit entdeckt, Junk-Web-Traffic gegen Citrix ADC-Netzwerkgeräte zu verstärken, um Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)-Angriffe zu starten.

https://www.zdnet.de/88391041/hacker-missbrauchen-citrix-geraete-fuer-ddos-attacken/


DevOps und Security im Einklang

DevOps-Teams sehen Sicherheit oft als Innovationsbremse. Wir geben einige Tipps, wie Sie effektive Entwicklerarbeit und Security unter einen Hut bringen.

https://www.zdnet.de/88391052/devops-und-security-im-einklang/


CrowdStrike releases free Azure security tool after failed hack

Leading cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike was notified by Microsoft that threat actors had attempted to read the companys emails through compromised by Microsoft Azure credentials.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crowdstrike-releases-free-azure-security-tool-after-failed-hack/


GitHub-hosted malware calculates Cobalt Strike payload from Imgur pic

A new strand of malware uses Word files with macros to download a PowerShell script from GitHub. This PowerShell script further downloads a legitimate image file from image hosting service Imgur to decode a Cobalt Strike script.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-hosted-malware-calculates-cobalt-strike-payload-from-imgur-pic/


Multi-platform card skimmer found on Shopify, BigCommerce stores

A recently discovered multi-platform credit card skimmer can harvest payment info on compromised stores powered by Shopify, BigCommerce, Zencart, and Woocommerce.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/multi-platform-card-skimmer-found-on-shopify-bigcommerce-stores/


Third-Party APIs: How to Prevent Enumeration Attacks

Jason Kent, hacker-in-residence at Cequence, walks through online-retail card fraud and what to do about it.

https://threatpost.com/third-party-apis-enumeration-attacks/162589/


Analysis Dridex Dropper, IoC extraction (guest diary), (Wed, Dec 23rd)

A couple of weeks ago, I assisted Xavier when he taught FOR610 in (virtual) Frankfurt. Last week, one of our students (Nicklas Keijser) sent us this analysis that we decided to share as a guest diary.

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/26920


CISA Releases Free Detection Tool for Azure/M365 Environment

CISA has created a free tool for detecting unusual and potentially malicious activity that threatens users and applications in an Azure/Microsoft O365 environment. The tool is intended for use by incident responders and is narrowly focused on activity that is endemic to the recent identity- and authentication-based attacks seen in multiple sectors.

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2020/12/24/cisa-releases-free-detection-tool-azurem365-environment


The History of DNS Vulnerabilities and the Cloud

We review the history of DNS vulnerabilities, particularly DNS cache poisoning, examining both past vulnerabilities and more advanced attacks.

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/dns-vulnerabilities/

Vulnerabilities

Project Zero: Schlecht gepatchte Windows-Lücke weiter ausnutzbar

Eine aktiv ausgenutzte Sicherheitslücke in Windows ist trotz Hinweisen von Google und einem unzureichenden Patch immer noch nicht behoben.

https://www.golem.de/news/project-zero-schlecht-gepatchte-windows-luecke-weiter-ausnutzbar-2012-153063-rss.html


Security updates for Thursday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (spip and sympa), Gentoo (c-ares, cherokee, curl, dbus, firefox, gdk-pixbuf, haproxy, libass, nss, openssl, pdns, pdns-recursor, php, samba, tomcat, and webkit-gtk), and SUSE (java-1_8_0-ibm, openexr, and python3).

https://lwn.net/Articles/841225/


Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (xen) and SUSE (flac and openexr).

https://lwn.net/Articles/841243/


Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (horizon, kitty, python-apt, and roundcube), Fedora (libmaxminddb, mediawiki, mingw-binutils, and thunderbird), Mageia (erlang-rebar3), openSUSE (blosc, ceph, firefox, flac, kdeconnect-kde, openexr, ovmf, PackageKit, python3, thunderbird, and xen), and SUSE (thunderbird).

https://lwn.net/Articles/841378/


VU#429301: Veritas Backup Exec is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to OPENSSLDIR location

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/429301


VU#843464: SolarWinds Orion API authentication bypass allows remote command execution

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/843464


Security Bulletin: IBM MQ is affected by a vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty (CVE-2019-17638)

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-mq-is-affected-by-a-vulnerability-in-eclipse-jetty-cve-2019-17638/


Security Bulletin: tzdata has been updated to tzdata-2020d to address Fiji and Palestine time zone changes

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-tzdata-has-been-updated-to-tzdata-2020d-to-address-fiji-and-palestine-time-zone-changes/


Security Bulletin: Publicly disclosed vulnerability from Samba affects IBM Netezza Host Management

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-publicly-disclosed-vulnerability-from-samba-affects-ibm-netezza-host-management/


Linux kernel and TMM vulnerability CVE-2020-25705

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K09604370


Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2018-10675

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K40540405