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The Lapsus$ data extortion group leaked today a huge collection of confidential data they claim to be from Samsung Electronics, the South Korean giant consumer electronics company. In a note posted earlier today, the extortion gang teased about releasing Samsung data with a snapshot of C/C++ directives in Samsung software.
The pro-Ukraine member of the Conti ransomware gang who promised to eviscerate the extortionists after they pledged support for the Russian government has spilled yet more Conti guts: The latest dump includes source code for Conti ransomware, TrickBot malware, a decryptor and the gang's administrative panels, among other core secrets. On Monday, vx-underground - an internet collection of malware source code, samples and papers that's generally considered to be a benign entity - shared on Twitter a message from a Conti member saying that "This is a friendly heads-up that the Conti gang has just lost all their sht."
Infamous ransomware group Conti is now the target of cyberattacks in the wake of its announcement late last week that it fully supports Russia's ongoing invasion of neighboring Ukraine, with the latest hit being the leaking of its source code for the public to see. The researcher leaked 393 JSON files containing more than 60,000 internal messages that reported were taken from the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gang's private XMPP chat server.
A Ukrainian researcher continues to deal devastating blows to the Conti ransomware operation, leaking further internal conversations, as well as the source for their ransomware, administrative panels, and more.On Monday, the researcher kept leaking more damaging Conti data, including an additional 148 JSON files containing 107,000 internal messages since June 2020, which is around when the Conti ransomware operation was first launched.
Organizations pulling their code from open source will often find themselves in scenarios where they have created a Frankensteined final artifact, with extremely fragmented origins. Organizations must take time to carefully consider their approach to supply chain security to prepare for potential future security incidents, and to gain the full benefits of open source.
Microsoft has revealed a vulnerability in its Azure App Service for Linux allowed the download of files that users almost certainly did not intend to be made public. Microsoft bills the Azure App Service as just the thing if you want to "Quickly and easily create enterprise-ready web and mobile apps for any platform or device, and deploy them on a scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure."
The Microsoft Azure App Service has a four-year-old vulnerability that could reveal the source code of web apps written in PHP, Python, Ruby or Node, researchers said, that were deployed using Local Git. The Azure App Service is a cloud computing-based platform for hosting websites and web applications.
A security flaw has been unearthed in Microsoft's Azure App Service that resulted in the exposure of source code of customer applications written in Java, Node, PHP, Python, and Ruby for at least four years since September 2017. Microsoft said a "Limited subset of customers," adding "Customers who deployed code to App Service Linux via Local Git after files were already created in the application were the only impacted customers."
A security flaw found in Azure App Service, a Microsoft-managed platform for building and hosting web apps, led to the exposure of PHP, Node, Python, Ruby, or Java customer source code deployed on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. Only Azure App Service Linux customers were impacted by the issue discovered and reported by researchers at cloud security vendor Wiz.io, with IIS-based applications deployed by Azure App Service Windows customers not being affected.
The software industry does not currently track the source of all code, nor does it grade the level of security standards applied in these international code factories. Establish a grading scale to rate each piece of code to more effectively determine the risk a company is inheriting from the code.