Discussion of public breaches of security
Arstechnica Story from a few days ago (12/2) CryWiper malware is destroying data in Ukraine and Russia Are we going to Cry when it comes to our shores? Cry Baby Cry… What does this mean? This malware has been worked on for years , which means this is the 4th or 5th version of … Read more
I bumped intothis site (Dresec) latest post is “Phishing with Google calendar” His first sentence is a disclaimer as he does not want other people to use the information to send phishing calendar invites. To him (and me) it is only designed to be a test within our organizations. Here is the sample … Read more
Nothing to see here – in Microsoft Land – Portswigger has the story: Apparently there is a feature in Microsoft Office Online Server that causes a Remote Code Execution(RCE) vulnerability. After hackers use a SSRF (Server Side Request forgery) attack, they can attack the systems with RCE. When Microsoft was told about this vulnerability they … Read more
So we are always telling everyone one of the things you must do is to patch and update our computers, so what happens… Someone figured out how to take advantage of this. Of course this has an acronym: BYOVD- “Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver”. Arstechnica story You may know one of the axioms – everything … Read more
Mandiant has a post about a Phishing-as-a-Service that has recently been investigated by Mandiant. This Phishing as a service is of course trying to make things easier for the criminals to set up phishing campaigns. Above is the Dashboard for the Service called “Caffeine V2” As I have mentioned in my book “Too Late you’re … Read more
