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January 09, 2025

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DEF CON's hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury
200+by Connor Jones / 1d
Marc Rogers is 'lucky to be alive' Marc Rogers, DEF CON's head of security, faces tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills following an accident that left him with a broken neck and temporary quadriplegia.…
Security pros baited with fake Windows LDAP exploit traps
9 TTPs
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by Connor Jones / 59min
Tricky attackers trying yet again to deceive the good guys on home territory Security researchers are once again being lured into traps by attackers, this time with fake exploits of serious Microsoft security flaws.…
Akamai to quit its CDN in China, seemingly not due to trouble from Beijing
Akamai ends CDN services in China
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26by Simon Sharwood / 1d
Security and cloud compute have so much more upside than the boring business of shifting bits Akamai has decided to end its content delivery network services in China, but not because it’s finding it hard to do business in the Middle Kingdom.…

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Japanese police claim China ran five-year cyberattack campaign targeting local orgs
6 TTPs
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by Simon Sharwood / 10h
‘MirrorFace’ group found ways to run malware in the Windows sandbox, which may be worrying Japan’s National Police Agency and Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity have confirmed third party reports of attacks on local orgs by publishing details of a years-long series of attacks attributed to a China-backed source.…
Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack
4 TTPs
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by Iain Thomson / 13h
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PowerSchool data breach affects schools
Class act: Cloud biz only serves 60M-plus folks globally, no biggie A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers' personal data – including some Social Security Numbers and medical info – stolen.…
I tried hard, but didn't fix all of cybersecurity, admits outgoing US National Cyber Director
Outgoing cyber czar calls for prioritization
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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 14h
In colossal surprise, ONCD boss Harry Coker says more work is needed The outgoing leader of the United States' Office of the National Cyber Director has a clear message for whomever President-elect Trump picks to be his successor: There's a lot of work still to do.…
Mitel 0-day, 5-year-old Oracle RCE bug under active exploit
4 TTPs
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by Jessica Lyons / 17h
3 CVEs added to CISA's catalog Cybercriminals are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in Mitel MiCollab, including a zero-day flaw – and a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server that has been abused for at least five years.…
DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research
Illumina iSeq 100 firmware vulnerabilities
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by Connor Jones / 22h
Devices on six-year-old firmware vulnerable to takeover and destruction Updated Cybersecurity shop Eclypsium claims security issues affecting leading DNA sequencing devices could lead to disruptions in crucial clinical research.…
UN's aviation agency confirms attack on recruitment database
ICAO data leak raises security concerns
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by Connor Jones / 1d
Various data points compromised but no risk to flight security The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations' aviation agency, has confirmed to The Register that a cyber crim did indeed steal 42,000 records from its recruitment database.…
Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed
6 TTPs
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by Jessica Lyons / 1d
Here's what $20 gets you these days More than 4,000 unique backdoors are using expired domains and/or abandoned infrastructure, and many of these expose government and academia-owned hosts – thus setting these hosts up for hijacking by criminals who likely have less altruistic intentions than the security researchers who uncovered the very same backdoors.…

Jan 7, 2025

FCC boss urges speedy spectrum auction to fund 'Rip'n'Replace' of Chinese kit
FCC plans auction to fund Rip and Replace
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by Jessica Lyons / 1d
Telcos would effectively fund grants paid to protect national security The outgoing boss of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel, has called on her colleagues to "quickly" adopt rules allowing the US regulator to stage a radio spectrum auction, the proceeds of which would fund the removal from American networks of equipment made by Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE.…
Turbulence at UN aviation agency as probe into potential data theft begins
2 TTPs
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by Connor Jones / 1d
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ICAO data leak raises security concerns
Crime forum-dweller claims to have leaked 42,000 documents packed with personal info The United Nations' aviation agency is investigating "a potential information security incident" after a cybercriminal claimed they had laid hands on 42,000 of the branch's documents.…

Jan 6, 2025

US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies
Tencent added to US blacklist
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by Simon Sharwood / 2d
This could be the start of a saga to rival TikTok’s troubles, and embroil Tesla and Microsoft The US Department of Defense has added Chinese messaging, media, and gaming giant Tencent to its list of “Chinese military companies”, a designation that won’t necessarily result in a ban but is nonetheless unpleasant.…
Charter, Consolidated, Windstream reportedly join China's Salt Typhoon victim list
3 TTPs
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by Jessica Lyons / 2d
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Chinese hackers breach US telecoms
Slow drip of compromised telecom networks continues The list of telecommunications victims in the Salt Typhoon cyberattack continues to grow as a new report names Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream among those breached by Chinese government snoops.…
FireScam infostealer poses as Telegram Premium app to surveil Android devices
FireScam Android malware steals data
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by Jessica Lyons / 2d
Once installed, it helps itself to your data like it's a free buffet Android malware dubbed FireScam tricks people into thinking they are downloading a Telegram Premium application that stealthily monitors victims' notifications, text messages, and app activity, while stealing sensitive information via Firebase services.…
MediaTek rings in the new year with a parade of chipset vulns
5 TTPs
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by Connor Jones / 2d
Manufacturers should have had ample time to apply the fixes MediaTek kicked off the first full working week of the new year by disclosing a bevy of security vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution bug affecting 51 chipsets.…

Jan 5, 2025

After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now
21by Rupert Goodwins / 3d
If 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, don’t rebuild with the rubble Opinion When a typhoon devastates a land, it takes a while to understand the scale of the destruction. Disaster relief kicks in, communications rebuilt, and news flows out. Salt Typhoon is no different.…
Taiwan reportedly claims China-linked ship damaged one of its submarine cables
China-Taiwan tensions escalate over cable
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21by Simon Sharwood / 3d
More evidence of Beijing’s liking for gray zone warfare, or a murky claim with odd African entanglements? Taiwanese authorities have asserted that a China-linked ship entered its waters and damaged a submarine cable.…
Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online
7 TTPs
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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 3d
PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Infosec in Brief Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security operations center without incident - unlike Volkswagen, which last week admitted it exposed data describing journeys made by some of its electric vehicles, plus info about the vehicle’s

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