Security News > 2022 > March
US President Joe Biden today has extended the state of national emergency declared to deal with increasingly prevalent and severe malicious cyber threats to the United States national security, foreign policy, and economy. The national emergency was declared on April 1, 2015, by former President Barack Obama through Executive Order 13694, which also sanctioned the individuals coordinating or contributing to cyberattacks against the US. On December 28, 2016, Obama issued Executive Order 13757 to amend E.O. 13694 because such malicious attacks were being used to undermine democratic processes and institutions.
Taiwanese company QNAP this week revealed that a selected number of its network-attached storage appliances are affected by a recently-disclosed bug in the open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library. "An infinite loop vulnerability in OpenSSL has been reported to affect certain QNAP NAS," the company said in an advisory published on March 29, 2022.
A new zero-day vulnerability in the Spring Core Java framework called 'Spring4Shell' has been publicly disclosed, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution on applications. Spring is a very popular application framework that allows software developers to quickly and easily develop Java applications with enterprise-level features.
A duo of researchers has released a proof-of-concept demonstrating the ability for a malicious actor to remote lock, unlock, and even start Honda and Acura vehicles by means of what's called a replay attack. The attack is made possible, thanks to a vulnerability in its remote keyless system that affects Honda Civic LX, EX, EX-L, Touring, Si, and Type R models manufactured between 2016 and 2020.
A nascent information stealer called Mars has been observed in campaigns that take advantage of cracked versions of the malware to steal information stored in web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets. "Mars Stealer is being distributed via social engineering techniques, malspam campaigns, malicious software cracks, and keygens," Morphisec malware researcher Arnold Osipov said in a report published Tuesday.
Network equipment maker Ubiquiti on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against infosec journalist Brian Krebs, alleging he defamed the company by falsely accusing the firm of covering up a cyber-attack. On March 30, 2021, Krebs reported that Ubiquiti had disclosed a January breach involving a third-party cloud provider, later revealed to be AWS, and that an unnamed source within the firm had claimed the company was downplaying a catastrophic compromise.
IT and software consultancy firm Globant has confirmed that they were breached by the Lapsus$ data extortion group, where data consisting of administrator credentials and source code was leaked by the threat actors. As part of the leak, the hacking group released a 70GB archive of data stolen from Globant, describing it as "Some customers source code."
Tomorrow is 31 March 2022, and the last day of March is World Backup Day. Even if you don't regularly backup every data file you've ever created.
A critical security vulnerability has bloomed in the Spring Cloud Function, which could lead to remote code execution and the compromise of an entire internet-connected host. Spring Cloud is an open-source microservices framework: A collection of ready-to-use components which are useful in building distributed applications in an enterprise.
The Google Threat Analysis Group says more and more threat actors are now using Russia's war in Ukraine to target Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine, in phishing and malware attacks. The report's highlight are credential phishing attacks coordinated by a Russian-based threat group tracked as COLDRIVER against a NATO Centre of Excellence and Eastern European militaries.