InfoSec Week 8, 2018

Posted Feb 22, 2018

Fraudsters are impersonating authors and publishing computer generated books so they can launder money via Amazon.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon/

Crooks made over $3 million by installing cryptocurrency miners on Jenkins Servers by exploiting Java deserialization RCE vulnerability (CVE-2017-1000353) in the Jenkins.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/69232/malware/jenkinsminer-targets-jenkins-servers.html

Tesla’s Kubernetes installed in the Amazon AWS infrastructure was compromised by hackers.They have set up private cryptocurrency mining pool there.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tesla-internal-servers-infected-with-cryptocurrency-miner/

The co-founder of WhatsApp, Brian Acton, has given $50 millions to support Signal messenger and create a self-sustaining foundation. Very good news for this donation funded privacy technology.
https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/

Hackers are exploiting the CISCO ASA vulnerability (CVE-2018-0101) in attacks in the wild.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/68959/hacking/cve-2018-0101-cisco-asa-flaw.html

Security Researcher Troy Hunt published half a billion passwords collected and processed from various breaches. There is also API for this dataset, and some statistics about the password usage.
https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/

There is a critical vulnerability in Mi-Cam baby monitors that let attackers spy on infants. At least 52k users are affected.
https://www.sec-consult.com/en/blog/2018/02/internet-of-babies-when-baby-monitors-fail-to-be-smart/index.html

Public key cryptography explained in the form of Ikea instructions. Check other images as well!
https://idea-instructions.com/public-key/