Exploits of "lawful access" interfaces, such as the Chinese attack reported today by the WSJ, appeared almost immediately after they became standardized in the 90's. The most famous example is the case known as "the Athens Affair" https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-athens-affair .

It was a bad idea then, and still a bad idea now.

China successfully compromised for months the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks.

This is a huge "told you so" moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. China reportedly used this capability for intelligence collection, obviously without a warrant ...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=C5ywbp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

🆕 New blog post! "The PrintNightmare is not Over Yet"

ℹ️ In this article, I take a look back at a previous post I wrote earlier this year about PrintNightmare. It turns out the Point and Print configuration I recommended at the end is still prone to Man-in-the-Middle attacks. So, I discuss that here, as well as additional mitigation I considered.

Props to @parzel and @l4x4 who both reported this issue to me.

👉 https://itm4n.github.io/printnightmare-not-over/

#printnightmare #windows #privesc #pentesting #pentest

A mathematician uses first person plural in proofs to suggest to the reader that they are on a journey together. This is not dissimilar to Virgil guiding Dante through the Inferno.

[oss-security] CVE-2024-47191: Local root exploit in the PAM module pam_oath.so

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/10/04/2

mitmproxy 11 is out! We now fully support HTTP/3, including transparent mode. 🥳

Gaurav - my Google Summer of Code student - has all the details: https://mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy-11/. Awesome to have such a fantastic mitmproxy community. ☺️

@Refurbished @catsalad @cR0w I'm listening!

@Refurbished @catsalad @cR0w Do you have names??

Security Explorations - SIM / USIM cards

https://security-explorations.com/sim-usim-cards.html

"On this web page, we are to share some information based on the experiences gained in the SIM / USIM card security space, all in a hope this leads to the increase of public awareness on the topic, change perspective on the SIM / USIM card industry and potentially trigger some positive changes (such as introduce transparency in vulnerability handling processes in particular)."

@zilahu I have a feeling that "then we can show them more ads" is somehow also a possible endgame of their AI strategy...

But fair point!

Many congratulations to ESET researcher Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé (@marcetienne), winner of the 2024 Péter Szőr Award for Technical Security Research for his research "Ebury is alive but unseen: 400k Linux servers compromised for cryptocurrency theft and financial gain"! #vb2024 https://www.virusbulletin.com/conference/peter-szor-award/

Somebody should tell C-levels in tech that there are ways other than advertising to make money

I like Mozilla, or rather I liked what Mozilla once was. Over the years I've volunteered time on various Mozilla projects - both online and in-person. I've advocated for Firefox for two decades.....

Time after time, especially in recent years, I've given Mozilla the benefit of the doubt - because I both believed they were honestly doing things for the right reasons.

I no longer believe that.

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"Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."

"we do this fully acknowledging our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embraced by everyone in our community" - https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/improving-online-advertising/

I appreciate Mozilla laying their intent out explicitly with no room for interpretation or guesswork.

Personally, I think this is not just a huge misstep, but a deathknell.

Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.

tl;dr: "LOL get fucked"

They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way....
https://jwz.org/b/ykaO

Mozilla bought the excellent Android email app K-9 (which didn’t include any trackers) and integrated trackers as part of #Mozilla‘s rebranding under the #Thunderbird name.

They even made it opt-out instead of opt-in. Their defense for breaking the law: ”we wouldn’t have enough data if we obeyed the law.“

It doesn’t matter whether you ”anonymized“ the data or not: If you want to extract data from someone’s device to yours, you may do so only if they knowingly consented.
https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/113244035577912640

New vulnerability report from Talos:

Veertu Anka Build registry archive files directory traversal vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2059

CVE-2024-41163

New vulnerability report from Talos:

Veertu Anka Build node agent update privilege escalation vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2060

CVE-2024-39755

New vulnerability report from Talos:

Veertu Anka Build registry log files directory traversal vulnerability

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2061

CVE-2024-41922