Security Leftovers
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A Digital Red Cross [Ed: Bruce Schneier has mentioned "ransomware" and fails to note this is primarily a Microsoft Windows issue, to be resolved by disconnecting such machines and firing those who deployed such machines in the medical domain]
The International Committee of the Red Cross wants some digital equivalent to the iconic red cross, to alert would-be hackers that they are accessing a medical network.
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Red Cross Wants Digital Symbols to Deter Hackers From Healthcare Institutions [Ed: Removing Microsoft would be vastly more effective]
Mr. Rodenhäuser said on Thursday that a digital protection emblem likely wouldn’t have deterred hackers intent on penetrating the Red Cross, but it might have waved off attackers unaware their victim was a healthcare organization.
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New "Earth Longzhi" APT Targets Ukraine and Asian Countries with Custom Cobalt Strike Loaders [Ed: This is Microsoft Windows, though the article fails to mention this explicitly (low-grade 'journalism']
Entities located in East and Southeast Asia as well as Ukraine have been targeted at least since 2020 by a previously undocumented subgroup of APT41, a prolific Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT).
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Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dropbear, php7.4, pixman, sysstat, and xorg-server), Fedora (mingw-expat, mingw-libtasn1, and mingw-pixman), Mageia (binutils/gdb, chromium-browser-stable, exiv2, libtiff, nodejs, pcre, pixman, wayland, and webkit2), Red Hat (device-mapper-multipath and libksba), SUSE (autotrace, busybox, libmodbus, php72, python-numpy, rustup, samba, varnish, xen, and xterm), and Ubuntu (thunderbird).