InfoSec Week 29, 2018
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The academics have mounted a successful GPS spoofing attack against road navigation systems that can trick humans into driving to incorrect locations. The novel part is that they are using real map data to generate plausible malicious instructions.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-mount-successful-gps-spoofing-attack-against-road-navigation-systems/
Folks from Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple during a hackaton implemented Encrypted Server Name Indication (SNI). There are implementations in BoringSSL, NSS and picotls.
https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/1018566026320019457
Good insight on how credit card thieves use free-to-play apps to steal and launder money from the credit cards.
https://kromtech.com/blog/security-center/digital-laundry
Chromium recently introduced Cross-Origin Read Blocking (CORB) that helps mitigate the threat of side-channel attacks (including Spectre).
https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/corb-for-developers
For anybody interested in reverse engineering, nice write up about the Smoke Loader malware bot unpacking mechanism and communication with the C&C.
https://www.cert.pl/en/news/single/dissecting-smoke-loader/
A research on how to bypass memory scanners using Cobalt Strike’s beacon payload and the gargoyle memory scanning evasion technique.
https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/experimenting-bypassing-memory-scanners-with-cobalt-strike-and-gargoyle/
Eset researchers analyzed ongoing espionage campaign against the Ukrainian government institutions.
https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ESET_Quasar_Sobaken_Vermin.pdf
The intercept summarized what the public has learned about Russian and U.S. spycraft from the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of hackers.
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/18/mueller-indictment-russian-hackers/
Security researchers have uncovered a highly targeted mobile malware campaign that has been operating since August 2015 and found spying on 13 selected iPhones in India.
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/07/Mobile-Malware-Campaign-uses-Malicious-MDM.html
There is an exploit for Ubuntu Linux (up to 4.17.4) where other users coredumps can be read via setgid directory and killpriv bypass.
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45033/