InfoSec Week 41, 2018

Memory corruption bug in WhatsApp’s non-WebRTC video conferencing implementation can screw you. Just answering a call from an attacker could completely compromise WhatsApp.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1654

Great story about the spear phishing scheme against the MacEwan University in Canada. Investigators were able to track stolen money to China and back to the Canadian real estate investments.
https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2018/10/09/how-a-fraudster-got-12-million-out-of-a-canadian-university-they-just-asked-for-it.html

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked. Devices can be discovered because of predictable cloud ID derived from the MAC address, then compromised by using malicious firmware images delivered by fake update server.
https://sec-consult.com/en/blog/2018/10/millions-of-xiongmai-video-surveillance-devices-can-be-hacked-via-cloud-feature-xmeye-p2p-cloud/

US Department of Defense published some findings from the weapons systems pentesting.
Weak passwords, port scans that caused the weapons system to fail, etc.
https://www.gao.gov/mobile/products/GAO-19-128

“Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack” published by researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory is explaining the possible technical aspects behind the recent Bloomberg story about the hardware backdoors shipped from China.
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/10/05/making-sense-of-the-supermicro-motherboard-attack/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

US Police used victims’ Fitbit data to charge 90-Year-Old man in stepdaughter’s killing.
They knew about the suspect, but the Fitbit data made the investigation easier.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/fitbit-murder-arrest.html

New Zealand can now fine travelers who refuse to unlock their digital devices for a search.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-04/nz-customs-can-force-travellers-to-unlock-digital-devices/10338662

Microsoft patches zero day vulnerability (CVE-2018-8453) in the win32k.sys discovered by Kaspersky Lab back in August.
The exploit is used to target victims in the Middle East.
https://securelist.com/cve-2018-8453-used-in-targeted-attacks/88151/

There are multiple severe vulnerabilities reported in the Juniper network devices.
https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&channel=SECURITY_ADVISORIES

Red Hat’s Flatpak used for application distribution on Linux is implementing some questionable security practices.
https://flatkill.org/

Exploit for MikroTik router WinBox vulnerability gives full root access.
https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/router-hacking-exploit.html

Congratulations to ICANN for the first-ever DNSSEC root key signing key rollover that took place on 11 October 2018.
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ksk-rollover

Mozilla decided to delay distrust of the Symantec TLS certification authority from their browsers.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/10/10/delaying-further-symantec-tls-certificate-distrust/

ADAPE-Script - Active Directory Assessment and Privilege Escalation Script can automate your AD recon and pentesting.
https://github.com/hausec/ADAPE-Script