Security and Windows TCO Leftovers
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Krebs On Security ☛ Brazil Arrests ‘USDoD,’ Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach
Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being “USDoD,” a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI’s InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the consumer data broker National Public Data that led to the leak of Social Security numbers and other personal information for a significant portion of the U.S. population.
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Windows TCO
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The Record ☛ Internet Archive restores several services after website defacement, DDoS attack
The Internet Archive has restored many of its services more than a week after hackers targeted the popular platform with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and defaced its website.
In an update on Thursday evening, founder Brewster Kahle said that after the incidents last week, the nonprofit was forced to shut down the site in an effort to improve security.
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The Record ☛ CISA confirms Veeam vulnerability is being used in ransomware attacks
Censys warned in September that the vulnerability is “particularly concerning because it’s likely to be exploited by ransomware operators to compromise backup systems and potentially create double-extortion scenarios.”
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Security Week ☛ North Korean APT Exploited IE Zero-Day in Supply Chain Attack
A North Korean threat actor has exploited a recent Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack, threat intelligence firm AhnLab and South Korea’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) say.
Tracked as CVE-2024-38178, the security defect is described as a scripting engine memory corruption issue that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on target systems that use Edge in Internet Explorer Mode.
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Silicon Angle ☛ Ransomware protection: AI and strategies to combat rising threats
Stone-Gross spoke with theCUBE Research’s Principal Analyst Shelly Kramer during a SecurityANGLE segment on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed why ransomware protection should not be treated as a bolt-on.
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YLE ☛ Finland's NBI probes wave of bank cyber attacks
Finnish banks have been targeted in cyber attacks in recent months. In particular, Nordea Bank has been hit by several distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks throughout the autumn.
The bank has faced recurring problems with its services, attributing them to DDoS attacks and technical upgrades.
DDoS attacks involve a website being intentionally flooded with traffic or prompted to send information that causes it to crash.
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The Register UK ☛ WD releases SDD firmware fix after Windows 11 24H2 BSODs
A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to The Register that it was aware of the complaints and is investigating. At the time of writing, the company hasn't added the glitch to the list of known issues with Windows 11 24H2.
It certainly appears to be something to do with Windows 11 24H2 since users have reported that perfectly running systems soon became hopelessly borked with Blue Screen of Death errors after installing the update.
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