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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#9): 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social “attack on the complainer”, “Ford’s method” for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities

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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#9): 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social “attack on the complainer”, “Ford’s method” for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities. The competition for the best question on the topic of VM continues. 😉🎁

📹 Video on YouTube, LinkedIn
🗞 Post on Habr (rus)
🗒 Digest on the PT website

Content:

🔻 00:37 Elevation of Privilege – Microsoft Streaming Service (CVE-2024-30090)
🔻 01:46 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel-Mode Driver (CVE-2024-35250)
🔻 02:38 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43573)
🔻 03:43 Remote Code Execution – XWiki Platform (CVE-2024-31982)
🔻 04:44 The scandal with the removal of Russian maintainers at The Linux Foundation, its impact on security and possible consequences.
🔻 05:22 Social “Attack on the complainer“
🔻 06:35 “Ford’s method” for motivating IT staff to fix vulnerabilities: will it work?
🔻 08:00 About the digest, habr and the question contest 🎁
🔻 08:29 Backstage

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September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses

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September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses. Starting this month, we decided to slightly expand the topics of the videos and increase their duration. I cover not only the trending vulnerabilities of September, but also social engineering cases, real-world vulnerability exploitation, and practices of vulnerability management process. At the end we announce a contest of questions about Vulnerability Management with gifts. 🎁

📹 Video “In The Trend of VM” on YouTube
🗞 A post on Habr (rus) a slightly expanded script of the video
🗒 A compact digest on the official PT website

Content:

🔻 00:51 Elevation of Privilege – Windows Installer (CVE-2024-38014) and details about this vulnerability
🔻 02:42 Security Feature Bypass – Windows Mark of the Web “LNK Stomping” (CVE-2024-38217)
🔻 03:50 Spoofing – Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43461)
🔻 05:07 Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812)
🔻 06:20 Remote Code Execution – Veeam Backup & Replication (CVE-2024-40711), while the video was being edited, data about exploitation in the wild appeared
🔻 08:33 Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383)
🔻 09:31 SQL Injection – The Events Calendar plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-8275)
🔻 10:30 Human vulnerabilities: fake reCAPTCHA
🔻 11:45 Real world vulnerabilities: еxplosions of pagers and other electronic devices in Lebanon and the consequences for the whole world
🔻 14:42 Vulnerability management process practices: tie annual bonuses of IT specialists to meeting SLAs for eliminating vulnerabilities
🔻 16:03 Final and announcement of the contest
🔻 16:24 Backstage

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Attack on the complainer

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Attack on the complainer

Attack on the complainer. Let’s say you ordered a product or service from some organization (marketplace, online store, service center – it doesn’t matter) and something went wrong. It’s quite natural to find the official community of this organization on a social network and write a complaint. Communication with the support team is good, but with some public stimulation it’s even better, right? 😉

Only since the complaint is public, it can be read not only by the organization’s employees, but also by attackers. 🤷‍♂️ They can write to you in a private message, posing as a representative of the organization, and promise to resolve all issues.

You just need to
🔻 go to the website (a phishing one 🪝)
🔻 fill out the form (with personal and card data 💳)
🔻 enter SMS code (2FA from Government Services website 🛂)
🔻 download and run the “helper application” (malware 👾)

There can be many attack scenarios. And there is only one way to resist them – vigilance.

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Fake reCAPTCHA

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Fake reCAPTCHA

Fake reCAPTCHA. Probably the most interesting example of exploitation of human vulnerability in the last month. This trick works for two reasons:

🔹 Various captcha services have taught people to do the strangest things: click on pictures with certain content, retype words, solve some puzzles. Many people do not even think when they see another window “prove that you are not a robot” and just do what they are asked. 🤷‍♂️

🔹 Websites have the ability to write arbitrary text to the site visitor’s clipboard. 😏

Fake captcha asks the user to launch the Run window in Windows (Win + R), then paste a malicious command from the clipboard into this window (Ctrl + V) and run the command (Enter). Very primitive, but it works! 🤩 This is how attackers trick victims into running malicious PowerShell scripts and HTA applications. 👾

John Hammond recreated the code of such a “captcha”. You can use it in anti-phishing training.

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