InfoSec Week 15, 2018

The U.S. Secret Service is warning about a new scam scheme where the crooks are intercepting new debit cards in the mail and replace the chips on the cards with chips from old cards. Once owners activate the cards, crooks will use stolen chips for their financial gain.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/secret-service-warns-of-chip-card-scheme/

Russian state regulator Roskomnadzor have ordered to block the Telegram messaging application 48 hours after it missed a deadline to give up encryption keys to the online conversations of its users. I am not sure whether the Telegram protocol is actually blocked in Russia now.
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-russian-block-telegram-messaging-app.html

A new Android P version will enforce applications to communicate over TLS secured connection by default.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/protecting-users-with-tls-by-default-in.html

Kudelski Security published a walk-through guide about Manger’s attack against RSA OAEP. 1-bit leak from oraculum suffices to decrypt ciphertexts.
https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2018/04/05/breaking-rsa-oaep-with-mangers-attack/

In depth article about stealing FUZE credit card content via Bluetooth.
https://blog.ice9.us/2018/04/stealing-credit-cards-from-fuze-bluetooth.html

Understanding Code Signing Abuse in Malware Campaigns. Pretty good statistics.
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/understanding-code-signing-abuse-in-malware-campaigns/

There is a vulnerability that results in a bypass of a tamper protection provided by the Sophos Endpoint Protection v10.7. Protection mechanism can be bypassed by deleting the unprotected registry key.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Apr/6

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the Apache HTTPD server. Update now.
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2018/Apr/6

Microsoft Windows tool certutil.exe for displaying certification authority information can be used to fetch data from the internet in the similar fashion like WGET or CURL.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/23517

There is a paper about breaking 256-bit security (NIST post-quantum candidate) WalnutDSA in under a minute.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/318

Snallygaster - a Tool to Scan for Secrets on Web Servers
https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/892-Introducing-Snallygaster-a-Tool-to-Scan-for-Secrets-on-Web-Servers.html

Nice map of the ongoing Linux kernel defenses. The map shows the relations between the vulnerability classes, current kernel defenses and bug detection mechanisms.
https://github.com/a13xp0p0v/linux-kernel-defence-map