Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio) Year of the (Clandestine) Linux Desktop, topic, and the news - Rob Allen - ESW #433
It’s the Year of the (Clandestine) Linux Desktop!
As if EDR evasions weren’t enough, attackers are now employing yet another method to hide their presence on enterprise systems: deploying tiny Linux VMs. Attackers are using Hyper-V and/or WSL to deploy tiny (120MB disk space and 256MB memory) Linux VMs to host a custom reverse shell and reverse proxy.
In this segment, we’ll discuss strategies and mitigations to battle this novel technique with Rob Allen from Threatlocker.
Segment Resources:
- Pro-Russian Hackers Use Linux VMs to Hide in Windows
- Russian Hackers Abuse Hyper-V to Hide Malware in Linux VMs
- Qilin ransomware abuses WSL to run Linux encryptors in Windows
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Segment 2: Topic - Threat Modeling Humanoid RobotsWe're entering the age of human-shaped robots, so it seems like a good time to talk about the fact that they ALREADY HAVE CVEs assigned to them. I guess this isn't a terrible thing - John Connor might have had an easier time if he could simply hack the terminators from a distance...
Resources
- https://www.unitree.com/H2 (watch the video!)
- China’s humanoid robots get factory jobs as UBTech’s model scores US$112 million in orders
- The big reveal: Xpeng founder unzips humanoid robot to prove it’s not human
- Exploit Allows for Takeover of Fleets of Unitree Robots - Security researchers find a wormable vulnerability
- 100-page Paper: The Cybersecurity of a Humanoid Robot
- 5-page Paper: Cybersecurity AI: Humanoid Robots as Attack Vectors
- Amazingly, $300 smart vacuums have some of the same exact vulnerabilities and backdoors built into them as the $16,000 humanoid robots! The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
Finally, in the enterprise security news,
- A $435M venture round
- A $75M seed round
- a few acquisitions
- the producer of the movie Half Baked bought a spyware company
- AI isn’t going well, or is it?
- maybe we just need to adopt it more slowly and deliberately?
- ad-blockers are enterprise best practices
- firewalls and VPNs are security risks, according to insurance claims
- could you power an entire house with disposable vapes?
All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-433