InfoSec Week 36, 2018

Posted Sep 7, 2018

USB media shipped with the Schneider Electric Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor solar products were infected with malware.
https://www.schneider-electric.com/en/download/document/SESN-2018-236-01/

Two days after the proof-of-concept exploit for the Windows Task Scheduler vulnerability appeared online, malware developers have started using it.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-task-scheduler-zero-day-exploited-by-malware/

Five Eyes, an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, officially warns the tech world that they should build interception capabilities voluntarily or governments will legislate.
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/646059/five-eyes-tech-industry-make-access-online-communications-possible-else/

Security researchers from the Kaitiaki Labs presented exploitation techniques against the automation in the LTE mobile networks.
https://gsec.hitb.org/materials/sg2018/D1%20-%20Exploiting%20Automation%20in%20LTE%20Mobile%20Networks%20-%20Altaf%20Shaik%20&%20Ravishankar%20Borgaonkar.pdf

.NET Framework remote code injection vulnerability (CVE-2018-8284) enables low privileged SharePoint users to execute commands on the server.
https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/our-research/technical-advisory-bypassing-workflows-protection-mechanisms-remote-code-execution-on-sharepoint/

A good blog post by a bug hunter Steven Seeley - Analyzing and Exploiting an Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Docker for Windows (CVE-2018-15514).
https://srcincite.io/blog/2018/08/31/you-cant-contain-me-analyzing-and-exploiting-an-elevation-of-privilege-in-docker-for-windows.html

Thousands of MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers.
https://blog.netlab.360.com/7500-mikrotik-routers-are-forwarding-owners-traffic-to-the-attackers-how-is-yours-en/

A great insight into the world of WW2 women code breakers who unmasked the Soviet spies.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-code-breakers-unmasked-soviet-spies-180970034/

ProtonMail released a major new version (4.0) of OpenPGPjs which introduces streaming cryptography.
https://protonmail.com/blog/openpgpjs-4-streaming-encryption/

Bruce Schneier announced the publication of the latest book with the name “Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World”.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/09/new_book_announ.html

There is a new collection of botnet source codes on GitHub.
https://github.com/maestron/botnets