Risky Business #774 -- Cleo file transfer appliances under widespread attack
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Exploring the Capabilities and Management of Canary Tokens
This chapter explores the functionalities of Canary Tokens, a security tool for detecting unauthorized access. It also addresses deployment complexities and future enhancements for improved management and tracking.
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On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Cleo file transfer products have a remote code exec, here we go again!
- Snowflake phases out password-based auth
- Chinese Sophos-exploit-dev company gets sanctioned
- Romania’s election gets rolled back after Tiktok changed the outcome
- AMD’s encrypted VM tech bamboozled by RAM with one extra address bit
- Some cool OpenWRT research
- And much, much more.
This week’s episode is sponsored by Thinkst, who love sneaky canary token traps. Jacob Torrey previews an upcoming Blackhat talk filled with interesting operating system tricks you can use to trigger canaries in your environment. You wont believe the third trick! Attackers hate him!
This episode is also available on Youtube.
Show notes
- Cleo Software Actively Being Exploited in the Wild CVE-2024-50623 | Huntress
- Blue Yonder investigating data leak claim following ransomware attack | Cybersecurity Dive
- Snowflake to phase out single-factor authentication by late 2025 | Cybersecurity Dive
- Treasury Sanctions Cybersecurity Company Involved in Compromise of Firewall Products and Attempted Ransomware Attacks | U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Another teenage hacker charged as feds continue Scattered Spider crackdown | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Germany arrests suspected admin of country’s largest criminal marketplace | The Record from Recorded Future News
- FCC, for first time, proposes cybersecurity rules tied to wiretapping law | CyberScoop
- Russian state hackers abuse Cloudflare services to spy on Ukrainian targets | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Cloudflare’s pages.dev and workers.dev Domains Increasingly Abused for
- Romania annuls presidential election over alleged Russian interference | The Record from Recorded Future News
- EU demands TikTok 'freeze and preserve data' over alleged Russian interference in Romanian elections | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Research Note: Meta’s Role in Romania’s 2024 Presidential Election - CheckFirst
- Key electricity distributor in Romania warns of ‘cyber attack in progress’ | The Record from Recorded Future News
- Backdoor slipped into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets - Ars Technica
- AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack - Ars Technica
- New dog, old tricks: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly thru SD card reader – PT SWARM
- Telegram partners with child safety group to scan content for sexual abuse material
- Apple hit with $1.2B lawsuit after killing controversial CSAM-detecting tool - Ars Technica
- Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain via Truncated SHA-256 Collision and Command Injection - Flatt Security Research
- How do I turn on the Do Not Track feature? | Firefox Help
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