May 5, SecurityWeek – (International) Cisco patches serious flaws in FirePOWER , TelePresence. Cisco released software updates patching several vulnerabilities in its FirePOWER and TelePresence products including a critical vulnerability that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to a targeted system, as well as several high severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities that could allow a remote attacker to cause a system to stop inspecting and processing packets by sending a specially crafted packet. The company stated there was no evidence to suggest the exploits were used for malicious purposes. Source
May 5, SecurityWeek – (International) Apple updates Xcode to patch Git vulnerabilities. Apple released Git version 2.7.4 and Xcode version 7.3.1, patching several remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting Git versions 2.7.3 and earlier versions, after discovering attackers could exploit the flaws to push or clone a repository with a large file name or a large number of nested trees in Apple’s operating system (OS) X El Capitan. Source
May 5, Reuters – (International) Exclusive: Big data breaches found at major email services – expert. The founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security reported that 273.3 million stolen accounts including users of Mail.ru, Google accounts, Yahoo accounts, and Microsoft accounts were being traded in Russia’s criminal underworld after the security firm discovered a Russian hacker, dubbed, “The Collector” was seen bragging in an online forum pertaining to the number of stolen credentials he collected and was prepared to sell. Many of the stolen username and passwords allegedly belong to employees in U.S. banking, manufacturing, and retail companies. Source
May 4, SecurityWeek – (International) Lost door RAT promoted via Facebook and Google’s Blogspot. Security researchers from Trend Micro reported that a remote access trojan (RAT) named, Lost Door can be customizable and difficult to detect, posing a challenge to information technology (IT) administrators after researchers found the trojan leverages a router’s Port Forward feature to access the server of a private network and disguises malicious traffic or communication as normal traffic. Attackers can mask their command and control (C&C) addresses and evade network monitoring as the servers only connect to an internal router Internet Protocol (IP) address. Source
Reprinted from the USDHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report