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Proprietary Software and Security

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 6th of April 2021 02:55:40 PM Filed under
Security

  • Ransom Gangs Emailing Victim Customers for Leverage  -  Krebs on Security

             

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  • Once again, someone tampered with an entire drinking water supply via the [Internet]

                     

                       

    The wildest part is that in both cases, these municipalities left themselves wide open to tampering — they installed the remote access software themselves so employees could log in to monitor the systems! That’s what Travnichek was hired to do in Kansas, and authorities aren’t even accusing him of “hacking” the system in their indictment. He simply “logged in remotely” months after he left the job, began shutting things down, and is now facing up to 20 years in prison.

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  • Brown University hit by cyberattack, some systems still offline

                     

                       

    The Ivy League school’s IT staff said the attack focused on the university’s Windows-based devices and asked faculty and staff to switch to computers running other operating systems, smartphones, or tablets.

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  • As ransomware stalks the manufacturing sector, victims are still keeping quiet

                     

                       

    The ransomware attack would cost Norsk Hydro, which employs 35,000 people and has roughly 200 factories around the world, between $90 million and $110 million as production in some factories halted for weeks.

                       

    Yet Molland and his team did something unusual for a large industrial organization disrupted by [attackers]: They told the public what happened in vivid detail, releasing video interviews in which plant employees described switching to manual operations.

                       

    Two years later, Norsk Hydro’s transparency remains an outlier in a manufacturing sector that is increasingly dogged by ransomware during the coronavirus pandemic. Of 500 manufacturing sector employees in the U.S., Germany and Japan surveyed by security firm Trend Micro, 61% said they had experienced cybersecurity incidents, with many of those cases causing system outages.

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  • FBI alert on Egregor ransomware highlighted affiliate cybercrime model

                     

                       

    In its advisory, the bureau said that attackers can rent Egregor as a ransomware-as-a-service malware, and that it relies on other hacking tools as part of an affiliate model. Egregor frequently comes packaged with penetration testing and exploit tools including Cobalt Strike, Qakbot and software known as Advanced IP Scanner and AdFind, the FBI said.

                       

    The federal government’s warning roughly coincided with a consensus from cybersecurity researchers and private sector firms that the specialists who launch ransomware attacks are a much more concentrated lot than widely understood.

                       

    Egregor is one of a number of strains classified as ransomware-as-a-service, meaning users can pay a fee to enlist the malicious code for their crime sprees.

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  • Apple Caves to Russia and Begins Showing Russian Government-Approved Apps During iPhone Setup

                     

                       

    After reportedly calling the requirements of a new Russian law a security threat and threatening to pull out of the country, Apple caved and decided to let Russia have its way, saying it would allow users to install government-approved Russian apps during iPhone setup. In recent days, we’ve gotten a first glimpse of what that looks like.

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  • iPhone Setup Process in Russia Now Includes List of Suggested Russian Developed Apps

                     

                       

    Apple agreed to display the list of apps to comply with a law established by Russia's Ministry of Digital Affairs. The law requires software to be preinstalled on all devices sold in Russia, including smartphones, tablets, desktops, and smart TVs.

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