The past few years have seen a dramatic shift in how organizations protect themselves against attackers. The hybrid working model, fast-paced digitalization, and increased number of ransomware incidents have changed the security landscape, making CISOs’ jobs more complex than ever.
This convoluted environment requires a new mindset to defend, and things that might have held true in the past might no longer be useful. Can digital certificates’ expiration dates still be managed in a spreadsheet? Is encryption ‘magic dust’? And are humans actually the weakest link?
Security experts weigh in the 22 cybersecurity myths that we finally need to retire in 2022.
The past few years have seen a dramatic shift in how organizations protect themselves against attackers. The hybrid working model, fast-paced digitalization, and increased number of ransomware incidents have changed the security landscape, making CISOs’ jobs more complex than ever.
This convoluted environment requires a new mindset to defend, and things that might have held true in the past might no longer be useful. Can digital certificates’ expiration dates still be managed in a spreadsheet? Is encryption ‘magic dust’? And are humans actually the weakest link?
Security experts weigh in the 22 cybersecurity myths that we finally need to retire in 2022.
The Qualys Research Labs discovered two vulnerabilities in util-linux’s
libmount. These flaws allow an unprivileged user to unmount other users’
filesystems that are either world-writable themselves or mounted in a
world-writable directory
(CVE-2021-3996), or to unmount FUSE filesystems that belong to certain other
users
(CVE-2021-3995).
Zhuowei Zhang discovered a bug in the EAP authentication client code of
strongSwan, an IKE/IPsec suite, that may allow to bypass the client and in some
scenarios even the server authentication, or could lead to a denial-of-service
attack.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime,
which may result in denial of service, bypass of deserialization
restrictions or information disclosure.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime,
which may result in denial of service, bypass of deserialization
restrictions or information disclosure.
Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium, which could result
in the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service or information
disclosure.
Researchers uncovered a stealthy UEFI rootkit that’s being used in highly targeted campaigns by a notorious Chinese cyberespionage group with suspected government ties. The group is known for using software supply-chain attacks in the past. Dubbed MoonBounce by researchers from Kaspersky Lab, the implant’s goal is to inject a malicious driver into the Windows kernel during the booting stages, providing attackers with a high level of persistence and stealthiness.
While MoonBounce is not the first UEFI rootkit found in the wild — LoJax, MosaicRegressor are two examples– these types of implants are not common because they require knowledge of low-level firmware programming. They are typically found in the arsenal of well-resourced and sophisticated attacker groups.
A backdoor has been discovered in WordPress AccessPress plugins and themes, which could allow an attacker access to a targeted website. AccessPress plugins and themes are used to provide website functionality and design options to website administrators. Successful exploitation of this backdoor could allow an attacker to redirect users to malicious sites as well as access to the vulnerable website.
