Security Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 11, 2023

• White House launches AI cyber challenge to identify and fix open-source software vulnerabilities

  Teams that compete in the DARPA-led challenge will be able to win for prizes worth a total of more than $25 million.

• Quickie: Generating a YARA Rule to Detect Obfuscated Strings, (Sun, Sep 10th)

• Powerful Ethnic Militia in Myanmar Repatriates 1,200 Chinese Suspected of Involvement in Cybercrime

  One of Myanmar’s biggest and most powerful ethnic minority militias arrested and repatriated more than 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations.

• Security updates for Monday

  Security updates have been issued by Debian (frr, kernel, libraw, mutt, and open-vm-tools), Fedora (cjose, pypy, vim, wireshark, and xrdp), Gentoo (apache), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, clamav, ghostscript, librsvg, libtiff, openssl, poppler, postgresql, python-pypdf2, and unrar), Red Hat (flac), SUSE (firefox, geoipupdate, icu73_2, libssh2_org, rekor, skopeo, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.2, linux-ibm, linux-oracle, linux-starfive, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gkeop-5.15, and opendmarc).

• Hinds County computer system remains under ransomware attack

  Hinds County is still experiencing computer issues following a cyberattack. The tax collector’s office will remain closed on Monday. The Circuit Clerk Office has also canceled jury duty for the week.

  Hinds County Administrator, Kenny Wayne Jones said in a statement, “Our systems and networks are being assessed, the process is intricate and time-consuming.”