Facebook jumped to the top spot in the 20 most impersonated brands by phishers in 2021, representing 14% of phishing pages, according to Vade’s annual Phishers’ Favorites report.
Microsoft, with 13%, placed second, according to the report, which analyzed full-year phishing data captured by Vade, a company that offers an email filtering service for phishing, malware, spear phishing, and spam.
Legislation requiring critical infrastructure operators to report cyber-attacks within 72 hours goes to House
Security researchers find 75% of smart infusion pumps are susceptible to known vulnerabilities
When the server is configured to use trust authentication with a clientcert requirement or to use cert authentication, a man-in-the-middle attacker can inject arbitrary SQL queries when a connection is first established, despite the use of SSL certificate verification and encryption.
Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Alfresco Alfresco Community Edition v5.2.0 via the action parameter in the alfresco/s/admin/admin-nodebrowser API. Fixed in v6.2
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in Intelliants Subrion CMS v4.2.1 via the Members administrator function, which could let a remote unauthenticated malicious user send an authorised request to victim and successfully create an arbitrary administrator user.
Multilple Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Intelliants Subrion CMS v4.2.1 in the Configuration panel.
Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Subrion CMS 4.2.1 via the q parameter in the Kickstart template.
Researchers have found a major encryption flaw in 100 million Samsung Galaxy phones.
From the abstract:
In this work, we expose the cryptographic design and implementation of Android’s Hardware-Backed Keystore in Samsung’s Galaxy S8, S9, S10, S20, and S21 flagship devices. We reversed-engineered and provide a detailed description of the cryptographic design and code structure, and we unveil severe design flaws. We present an IV reuse attack on AES-GCM that allows an attacker to extract hardware-protected key material, and a downgrade attack that makes even the latest Samsung devices vulnerable to the IV reuse attack. We demonstrate working key extraction attacks on the latest devices. We also show the implications of our attacks on two higher-level cryptographic protocols between the TrustZone and a remote server: we demonstrate a working FIDO2 WebAuthn login bypass and a compromise of Google’s Secure Key Import.
Here are the details:
As we discussed in Section 3, the wrapping key used to encrypt the key blobs (HDK) is derived using a salt value computed by the Keymaster TA. In v15 and v20-s9 blobs, the salt is a deterministic function that depends only on the application ID and application data (and constant strings), which the Normal World client fully controls. This means that for a given application, all key blobs will be encrypted using the same key. As the blobs are encrypted in AES-GCM mode-of-operation, the security of the resulting encryption scheme depends on its IV values never being reused.
Gadzooks. That’s a really embarrassing mistake. GSM needs a new nonce for every encryption. Samsung took a secure cipher mode and implemented it insecurely.
News article.
