A bit more gasoline to pour into Clownstrike's fire... ;-)

https://www.bitsight.com/blog/crowdstrike-timeline-mystery

Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co.
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-can-access-deleted-and-private-repo-data-github

Congrats @nachoskrnl for being nominated @pwnieawards for his 3-episode research work on Windows paths - well deserved (yes, I nominated it:)).
https://x.com/PwnieAwards/status/1815894380789592298

https://bird.makeup/@pwnieawards/1815894380789592298

Something I've had on my list for quite some time and finally got around to now: updating the HowFuzzilliWorks document: https://github.com/googleprojectzero/fuzzilli/blob/main/Docs/HowFuzzilliWorks.md

Besides a number of smaller changes (e.g. new mutators), the design of the HybridEngine has changed considerably since the document was initially written.

Happy fuzzing!

#TIL that the #IAEA uses something called a „COBRA seal“ to seal relevant objects against manipulation. One type of these seals works by using a multi-core optical cable. When the seal is locked a random number of cores are cut. This creates a unique optical pattern that can be verified simply by shining a light into the cable and can’t be recreated.

The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations

Do I know anyone with a mail address on a mail server managed by barracuda networks who would help me with something? I'd like to test a few things (just sending you a few test mails and see if they arrive).

Wild, true story from the security awareness and training company KnowBe4 that details how they inadvertently hired a North Korean hacker who was posing as a Western tech worker.

Kudos to them for publishing this. If it can happen to a security awareness company, it can happen to anyone (full disclosure: they've been an advertiser on my site for ages).

https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us

I've published a little blog on binary patching Golang produced assembly to alter the stdlib net/http functionality. #golang and #infosec frens maybe interested! https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/golang-patching

We're proud our testing helps ensure the security of Thinkst's OSS Canary Tokens! As part of their transparency efforts, you can read the results of our latest round of testing here:

https://www.doyensec.com/resources/Doyensec_ThinkstCanaryTokensOSS_Report_Q22024_WithRetesting.pdf

#doyensec #appsec #security #thinkst

CISA: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
Hot off the press! CISA adds two vulnerabilities to the KEV Catalog:

• CVE-2012-4792 (CVSSv2: 9.3 "high") Microsoft Internet Explorer Use-after-free vulnerability
• CVE-2024-39891 (5.3 medium) Twilio Authy Information Disclosure Vulnerability

cc: @iagox86 h/t: @hrbrmstr

#CISA #KEV #knownexploitedvulnerabilitiescatalog #CVE_2012_4792 #CVE_2024_39891 #eitw #activeexploitation #CVE #vulnerability

CVE-2019-8805: Apple EndpointSecurity framework Privilege Escalation https://blog.securelayer7.net/applied-endpointsecurity-framework-previlege-escalation/

Blog posts should always include a first published date and a last edited date.

Was ILOVEYOU worse than CrowdStrike?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU

Looks like more hosts were affected by ILOVEYOU (45 million in the first 24 hours) ... but the damage was somewhat more random because files were overwritten.

And now that there is a well-known CrowdStrike recovery procedure, as long as you follow it, you're okay -- but if you didn't have good backups, files overwritten by ILOVEYOU were unrecoverable.

#CrowdStrike

Any event that makes the front page of a news outlet will be used as a phishing lure.

Any “threat intelligence” that alerts you to this is next to useless.

Email received a few days ago: "We need to know which version of SSH is installed on the server, as we want to ensure it is not vulnerable to external attacks." My response: "Don’t worry, SSH is accessible ONLY via VPN, and I am the only one with access to that VPN—activated only when needed—so there is no way for there to be any issues, regardless of the version used."

Email received this morning: "We’re not interested; you must provide the SSH version installed and, if it's not the latest, ensure us of the update date."
My response: "Sorry, could you explain the rationale? SSH is not exposed, it’s not listening on any public IP."
Their reply: "Provide the version."
My response: "OpenSSH_9.7, LibreSSL 3.9.0, on OpenBSD."
Their reply: "This is not considered secure. It must be OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u3."
My response: "It’s not Debian; it’s OpenBSD."
Their reply: "So the systems are insecure."

And they claim to be a cybersecurity company...

#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian

🌪️ Our CEO @nrathaus had an engaging chat with our keynote speaker @yarden_shafir. They covered starting out in cybersecurity, tips for beginners, and future trends in the industry.

Watch now at: https://youtu.be/b51Ptn5K79U

Happy to announce @hyperdbg v0.10! 🎉🎊✨

This version comes with numerous bug fixes and stability improvements, plus new features like running assembly code directly in the events (VMX root-mode) and two new commands.

Check out the latest version: https://github.com/HyperDbg/HyperDbg/releases

For more information,

Assembly codes in conditions:
- https://docs.hyperdbg.org/using-hyperdbg/prerequisites/how-to-create-a-condition

Assembly codes in code sections:
- https://docs.hyperdbg.org/using-hyperdbg/prerequisites/how-to-create-an-action

Assemble virtual address:
- https://docs.hyperdbg.org/commands/debugging-commands/a

Assemble physical address:
- https://docs.hyperdbg.org/commands/extension-commands/a

On the ​ there is a narrative whereby a Cobalt Strike¹ update "forced" #CrowdStrike to push out an update which caused the Falcon crash² .

Inevitably the usual crowd came out and we have statements such as:

> So, it’s Cobalt Strike’s success and popularity with threat actors that prompted CrowdStrike to rush out a signature for their agents, resulting in crashes on thousands of systems.
>
> Can someone add this to the balance sheet of damage caused by popular C2 frameworks?³

We therefore justify the complete lack of QA by blaming a C2 framework from a commercial company which, as many others, is used by baddies too.

The best bit is that Florian had to tell people it was said in jest (follow-up xeet) but… too late. He was quoting a xeet by Constantin Raiu but it was taken seriously.

We have just given #CrowdStrike something to blame in their narrative: "we were doing it to save the world from Cobalt Strike, they should not be allowed to exist!"

​

__
¹ https://www.cobaltstrike.com
² https://x.com/craiu/status/1814566308056318381
³ https://x.com/cyb3rops/status/1814944503498678678