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Google on Wednesday announced the 0.1 Beta version of GUAC for organizations to secure their software supply chains. GUAC aims to aggregate software security metadata from different sources into a graph database that maps out relationships between software, helping organizations determine how one piece of software affects another.
Security teams must adopt automation and incorporate security measures into code to keep up with the quickly evolving software development. Tython allows security teams to build custom security reference architectures and design patterns as code.
OSC&R is an open framework for understanding and evaluating software supply chain security threats. Spearheaded by OX Security, OSC&R is a MITRE-like framework designed to provide a common language and structure for understanding and analyzing the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by adversaries to compromise the security of software supply chains.
High-profile government entities in Southeast Asia are the target of a cyber espionage campaign undertaken by a Chinese threat actor known as Sharp Panda since late last year. The intrusions are characterized by the use of a new version of the Soul modular framework, marking a departure from the group's attack chains observed in 2021.
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has added CVE-2022-36537 to its "Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog" after threat actors began actively exploiting the remote code execution flaw in attacks. CVE-2022-36537 is a high-severity flaw impacting the ZK Framework versions 9.6.1, 9.6.0.1, 9.5.1.3, 9.0.1.2 and 8.6.4.1, enabling attackers to access sensitive information by sending a specially crafted POST request to the AuUploader component.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a high-severity flaw affecting the ZK Framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2022-36537, the issue impacts ZK Framework versions 9.6.1, 9.6.0.1, 9.5.1.3, 9.0.1.2, and 8.6.4.1, and allows threat actors to retrieve sensitive information via specially crafted requests.
An open source command-and-control framework known as Havoc is being adopted by threat actors as an alternative to other well-known legitimate toolkits like Cobalt Strike, Sliver, and Brute Ratel. Cybersecurity firm Zscaler said it observed a new campaign in the beginning of January 2023 targeting an unnamed government organization that utilized Havoc.
Security researchers are seeing threat actors switching to a new and open-source command and control framework known as Havoc as an alternative to paid options such as Cobalt Strike and Brute Ratel. Among its most interesting capabilities, Havoc is cross-platform and it bypasses Microsoft Defender on up-to-date Windows 11 devices using sleep obfuscation, return address stack spoofing, and indirect syscalls.
Threat actors are leveraging known flaws in Sunlogin software to deploy the Sliver command-and-control framework for carrying out post-exploitation activities. The findings come from AhnLab Security Emergency response Center, which found that security vulnerabilities in Sunlogin, a remote desktop program developed in China, are being abused to deploy a wide range of payloads.
NIST is planning a significant update of its Cybersecurity Framework. At this point, it's asking for feedback and comments to its concept paper.