InfoSec Week 31, 2018

Reddit got hacked. According to the investigation, it looks like hackers accessed employees 2FA protected accounts.
An attacker “compromised a few of Reddit’s accounts with cloud and source code hosting providers by intercepting SMS 2FA verification codes”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/93qnm5/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_you_need_to/

A non-official French website keepass.fr using an URL similar to the popular password manager KeePass one lets you download a tampered version of the password manager with some adware in it.
https://twitter.com/JusticeRage/status/1021815597972291591

According to The Intercept_, Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest.
One can only wonder whether it is some part of a broader strategy, how to spread channels of influence abroad.
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/

There is a great blog published on a Trail of Bits about the recent invalid elliptic curve point attack against the Bluetooth implementations.
Give it a try if you are interested, it’s really easy to read!
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/08/01/bluetooth-invalid-curve-points/amp/

A borough and a town in Alaska have been hit by a devastating ransomware attack, forcing employees to completely stop using computers and go back to typewriters and hand receipts.
https://mashable.com/2018/08/02/malware-alaska-town

BYOB (Build Your Own Botnet) is an open-source project that provides a framework for security researchers and developers to build and operate a basic botnet to deepen their understanding of the sophisticated malware that infects millions of devices every year and spawns modern botnets, in order to improve their ability to develop countermeasures against these threats.
https://github.com/colental/byob

FireEye wrote article about the internals of a FIN7 hacking group global operation.
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2018/08/fin7-pursuing-an-enigmatic-and-evasive-global-criminal-operation.html

WireGuard, next generation VPN software, is finally submitted for the Linux kernel inclusion. Linus Torvalds commented the pull request:
“I’ve skimmed it, and compared to the horrors that are OpenVPN and IPSec, it’s a work of art.”
https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=153306429108040&w=2
http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2018/08/02/124

Malhunt: automated malware search in memory dumps using volatility and Yara rules.
https://github.com/andreafortuna/malhunt