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This Week in Security News – February 18, 2022

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This Week in Security News – February 18, 2022

Read on:  SMS PVA Services’ Use of Infected Android Phones Reveals Flaws in SMS Verification There has been an increase in short message service (SMS) phone-verified account (PVA) services in the last two years. SMS PVA services provide alternative mobile numbers that customers can use to register for online services and platforms. Malicious actors can register disposable accounts in bulk or create phone-verified accounts for criminal activities. In the following blog, Trend Micro shares the…

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Ukraine Cyberattack 2022: Geopolitical Cybersecurity

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Ukraine Cyberattack 2022: Geopolitical Cybersecurity

Europe is on a knife-edge. With over 130,000 Russian troops amassed on the Ukrainian border, the region is witnessing the biggest build-up of firepower since the cold war. Inevitably, there is also cyber-dimension to this conflict. Mounting attacks on Ukrainian websites and I.T. infrastructure are making policymakers in Washington and elsewhere nervous should tensions rise further. All of this comes amidst unprecedented US-Russian cooperation to crack down on organized cybercrime. However, CISOs should be clear:…

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SMS PVA Services’ Use of Infected Android Phones Reveals Flaws in SMS Verification

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SMS PVA Services’ Use of Infected Android Phones Reveals Flaws in SMS Verification

Using these code snippets and C&C traffic as fingerprints, we were able to identify two more DEX files with the same functionality but different C&Cs, indicating an active development process and several versions of both the development code and production code of the Android malware. Only text messages sent by specific services and matched by the regex provided by the C&C were intercepted. This is likely to prevent the user of the Android phone from…

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Security Automation with Vision One & Palo Alto

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Security Automation with Vision One & Palo Alto

Security Automation with Vision One & Palo Alto APT & Targeted Attacks Trend Micro Vision One™ integrates with Palo Alto Networks Cortex™ XSOAR to drive automated response to incidents uncovered by Vision One. By: Trend Micro February 14, 2022 Read time:  ( words) Trend Micro Vision One™ is at the core of our unified cybersecurity platform, delivering powerful, industry-leading extended detection and response (XDR), centralized visibility and risk insights. Vision One integrates with Palo Alto…

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Detecting PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) Using Trend Micro™ Vision One™ and Cloud One™

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Detecting PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) Using Trend Micro™ Vision One™ and Cloud One™

Detecting PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) Using Trend Micro™ Vision One™ and Cloud One™ Exploits & Vulnerabilities This blog discusses how CVE-2021-4034 can be detected and blocked using Trend Micro™ Vision One™ and Trend Micro Cloud One™. By: Sunil Bharti, Nitesh Surana February 11, 2022 Read time:  ( words) PolKit, or PolicyKit, is a component that handles system-wide policies and authorizations in Unix and Unix-like operating systems (OS), allowing non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones. PolKit’s pkexec…

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Why Cyber Change Outpaces Boardroom Engagement

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Why Cyber Change Outpaces Boardroom Engagement

Humans are addicted to stories. But sometimes the stories we tell are overly simplistic. In cybersecurity, a recurring narrative is one of C-suite executives perpetually at odds with IT leaders. They’re disinterested in what the security team does, and release funds begrudgingly and often reactively once a serious incident has occurred. This leads to mounting cyber risk, and an increasing likelihood that the organization will suffer serious reputational and financial damage stemming from future incidents—or…

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Codex Exposed Helping Hackers in Training

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Codex Exposed Helping Hackers in Training

In June 2020, OpenAI released version 3 of its Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT-3), a natural language transformer that took the tech world by storm with its uncanny ability to generate text seemingly written by humans. But GPT-3 was also trained on computer code, and recently OpenAI released a specialized version of its engine, named Codex, tailored to help — or perhaps even replace — computer programmers. In a series of blog posts, we explore different…

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The Samba Vulnerability: What is CVE-2021-44142 and How to Fix It

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The Samba Vulnerability: What is CVE-2021-44142 and How to Fix It

An earlier version of an out-of-bounds (OOB) vulnerability in Samba was disclosed via Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) Pwn2Own Austin 2021. ZDI looked further into the security gap and found more variants of the vulnerability after the event and subsequently disclosed the findings to the company. While we have not seen any active attacks exploiting this vulnerability, CVE-2021-44142 received a CVSS rating of 9.9 out of the three variants reported. If abused, this security…

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Defending the Supply Chain: Why the DDS Protocol is Critical in Industrial and Software Systems

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Defending the Supply Chain: Why the DDS Protocol is Critical in Industrial and Software Systems

By measuring the exposure of DDS services, in one month we found 643 distinct public-facing DDS services in 34 countries affecting 100 organizations via 89 internet service providers (ISPs). Of the DDS implementations by seven distinct vendors (one of which we were initially unaware of), 202 leaked private IP addresses (referring to internal network architecture details), and seven supposedly secret URLs. Some of these IP addresses expose unpatched or outdated DDS implementations, which are affected…

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Emotet Spam Abuses Unconventional IP Address Formats to Spread Malware

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Emotet Spam Abuses Unconventional IP Address Formats to Spread Malware

Emotet Spam Abuses Unconventional IP Address Formats to Spread Malware We found waves of Emotet spam campaigns using unconventional IP addresses to evade detection. By: Ian Kenefick January 21, 2022 Read time:  ( words) We observed Emotet spam campaigns using hexadecimal and octal representations of IP addresses, likely to evade detection via pattern matching. Both routines use social engineering techniques to trick users into enabling document macros and automate malware execution. Upon receiving these standards,…

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