InfoSec Week 28, 2017

Porn spam botnet consisting of more than 80,000 automated female Twitter accounts has been prompting millions of clicks from Twitter users to the various affiliate dating schemes (known as “partnerka”).
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/07/porn-spam-botnet-has-evil-twitter-twin/

Two malware families, NemucodAES ransomware and Kovter trojan are being distributed via email, pretending to be a delivery notice from the United Parcel Service.
https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/NemucodAES+and+the+malspam+that+distributes+it/22614/

Reyptson ransomware is using victim’s configured Thunderbird email account to execute spam distribution campaign against its contacts.
http://www.securitynewspaper.com/2017/07/18/reyptson-ransomware-spams-friends-stealing-thunderbird-contacts/

Android spyware targeting Iranians is using Telegram bot API to exfiltrate data to the remote server.
https://blog.avast.com/spyware-targets-iranian-android-users-by-abusing-messaging-app-telegram-bot-api

Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Humax HG-100R WiFi Router, that could be exploited by attackers to compromise the WiFi credentials and obtain the router console administrative password.
https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/0-Day-Alert–Your-Humax-WiFi-Router-Might-Be-In-Danger/

Proofpoint analyzed Ovidiy Stealer, undocumented credential stealer, which is sold on the Russian-speaking forums.
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/meet-ovidiy-stealer-bringing-credential-theft-masses

Guido Vranken fuzzed FreeRADIUS source code and found 15 issues, four exploitable, and one of which is a remote code execution bug (RCE). Compile and upgrade now.
http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html

Humble Bundle is selling for next 12 days a lots of DRM-free cybersecurity books very cheaply.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cybersecurity-wiley

WireGuard, fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel is now formally verified with the Tamarin equational theorem prover. Really powerful software.
https://www.wireguard.com/formal-verification/

Interesting USENIX paper on the security (and analysis) of bootloaders in mobile devices:
BootStomp: On the Security of Bootloaders in Mobile Devices
http://cs.ucsb.edu/~yanick/publications/2017_sec_bootstomp.pdf

PyREBox is a Python scriptable Reverse Engineering sandbox developed by Cisco Talos. It is based on QEMU, and its goal is to aid reverse engineering by providing dynamic analysis and debugging capabilities from a different perspective.
https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/pyrebox