The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) detected attacks by the Nobelium group targeting IT services providers. The intent was to “gain access to downstream customers” such as Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and Managed Service Providers (MSP). If the Nobelium name sounds familiar, it’s because they were the threat actor behind the 2020 SolarWinds compromise. MSTIC … [Read more...]
InfoSec News From Last Week October 18th, 2021
Azure, BitBucket, GitHub, and GitLab revoke SSH Keys After GitKraken Vulnerability Git software client GitKraken disclosed an SSH key generation flaw in a post this past Monday. The flaw was discovered in versions 7.6.x, 7.7.x, and 8.0.0 for releases available between mid-May to late-June this year. GitKraken uses the library keypair to generate SSH keys for connecting code … [Read more...]
InfoSec News Weekly Wrap-Up October 8th, 2021
SMS Routing Company Syniverse Discloses Breach Spanning 5 Years Syniverse claims to be “the world’s most connected company” serving so many large telecommunication companies that it should be assumed that your provider is one of their customers. Their reach is significant, acting as the intermediary for text messages between carriers and routing calls between networks. The … [Read more...]
Azure Linux VMs Vulnerable Due to Pre-Installed Agents
Update 1: OMI agent is not installed on Azure FireboxV/Cloud instances (September 17th, 2021): We reviewed our FireboxV/Cloud instance for Azure and confirmed that the OMI agent cannot be installed on the image. We recommend reviewing the additional guidance Microsoft published on September 16th, 2021 for securing the OMI affected resources/tools. Original Post … [Read more...]
The PrintNightmare Saga Continues to Frustrate System Administrators
Update 1: Third PrintNightmare CVE published (July 16th, 2021): Microsoft published CVE-2021-34481 on July 15th for a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The third Print Spooler service vulnerability is considered separate from PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-34527), but it is still within a similar sphere of printer driver vulnerabilities. Gentilkiwi, the author of … [Read more...]
