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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

Krebs on Security

In November 2021, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how Pompompurin abused a vulnerability in an FBI online portal designed to share information with state and local law enforcement authorities, and how that access was used to blast out thousands of hoax email messages — all sent from an FBI email and Internet address.

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LPE zero-day flaw in Razer Synapse allows attackers to take over Windows PCs

Security Affairs

Razer is a popular manufacturer of computer accessories, including gaming mouses and keyboards. Razer is a very popular computer peripherals manufacturer that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, financial services, and gaming hardware, including gaming mouses and keyboards. Pierluigi Paganini.

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New LockFile ransomware gang uses ProxyShell and PetitPotam exploits

Security Affairs

The three vulnerabilities used in ProxyShell attacks are: CVE-2021-34473 – Pre-auth Path Confusion leads to ACL Bypass (Patched in April by KB5001779 ) CVE-2021-34523 – Elevation of Privilege on Exchange PowerShell Backend (Patched in April by KB5001779 ) CVE-2021-31207 – Post-auth Arbitrary-File-Write leads to RCE (Patched in May by KB5003435 ).

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erwin’s Predictions for 2021: Data Relevance Shines at the End of the Tunnel

erwin

Our predictions for 2021 are rooted in what we’ve learned from the past year and the relevance of data in getting us to where we are and where we need to go. Data Becomes a Matter of Life or Death: To say that data will be the difference between life and death in 2021 is not hyperbole. COVID changed everything.

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2021 State of Analytics: Why Users Demand Better

The sample included 1,931 knowledge workers, or end users, from financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing who are familiar with the analytics tools within their applications.

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China-linked Budworm APT returns to target a US entity

Security Affairs

The Budworm cyber espionage group (aka APT27 , Bronze Union , Emissary Panda , Lucky Mouse , TG-3390 , and Red Phoenix) is behind a series attacks conducted over the past six months against a number of high-profile targets, including the government of a Middle Eastern country, a multinational electronics manufacturer, and a U.S.

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LockFile Ransomware uses a new intermittent encryption technique

Security Affairs

.” Sophos experts spotted the new technique while analyzing a LockFile sample (SHA-256 hash: bf315c9c064b887ee3276e1342d43637d8c0e067260946db45942f39b970d7ce) that was uploaded to VirusTotal on August 22, 2021. The ransom note is an HTML Application (HTA) file (e.g., LOCKFILE-README-[hostname]-[id].hta’)