InfoSec Week 7, 2018

Posted Feb 15, 2018

The Fidelis Cybersecurity researcher Jason Reaves demonstrated how covertly exchange data using X.509 digital certificates. The proof of concept code is using SubjectKeyIdentifier and generating certificates on the fly.
https://www.fidelissecurity.com/threatgeek/2018/02/exposing-x509-vulnerabilities

The “UDPoS” Point of Sale malware is using DNS traffic to exfiltrate stolen credit card data.
https://blogs.forcepoint.com/security-labs/udpos-exfiltrating-credit-card-data-dns

Talos analyzed malware threat targeting Olympic computer systems during the opening ceremony. The main purpose was information gathering and destroying the system.
http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/02/olympic-destroyer.html

Zero-day vulnerability in the Bitmessage messaging client was exploited to steal Electrum cryptocurrency wallet keys.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/69100/hacking/bitmessage-zero-day.html

Trustwave analyzed multi-stage Microsoft Word attack which is NOT using macros. Really creative technique.
https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Multi-Stage-Email-Word-Attack-without-Macros/

Microsoft can’t fix Skype privilege escalation bug without the massive code rewrite, so they postponed it for a while.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Feb/33

Facebook is advertising their Onavo VPN application, but there are a few reasons why it is really not a good idea to use it.
https://gizmodo.com/do-not-i-repeat-do-not-download-onavo-facebook-s-vam-1822937825

Facebook is spamming users via SMS registered for two factor authentication (2FA). Then posts their responses on a wall.
https://twitter.com/Gabriel__Lewis/status/963121814166630400

(Not only) Performance analysis of a Retpoline mitigation for Spectre vulnerability.
https://cyber.wtf/2018/02/13/in-debt-to-retpoline/

A guide on how to brutefoce Linux Full Disk Encryption (LUKS) volumes using Hashcat software.
https://blog.pnb.io/2018/02/bruteforcing-linux-full-disk-encryption.html

Proof of concept of LibreOffice remote arbitrary file disclosure vulnerability. It is possible to silently send any files. All operating systems affected before 5.4.5/6.0.1 versions.
https://github.com/jollheef/libreoffice-remote-arbitrary-file-disclosure