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According to the U.S Department of Commerce, e-commerce sales in the first quarter of 2022 accounted for 14.3% of total sales. Secure web applications are essential for modern retailers, but many are still struggling to combat common web application risks, including ones such as cross-site scripting and code injection that have been around for years,…

On November 1, 2022, OpenSSL developers released details of two vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602. Context In an accompanying blog post, OpenSSL explained that they downgraded the severity of the vulnerabilities to high from the originally announced critical level due to technical barriers to exploitation. No in the wild exploits or proofs of concept (POCs) are…

WAFs, or web application firewalls, have been around since the late 1990s, becoming popular in the early 2000s when OWASP formalized its top 10 list of application vulnerabilities. WAFs are designed to monitor and block suspicious HTTP traffic from reaching your web applications. This is typically done based on a series of rules that block…

Key Takeaways On October 25, 2022, Cisco Talos Incident Response (CTIR) researchers published their Quarterly Report: Incident Response Trends in Q3 2022. Key findings include: Ransomware was the top threat this quarter, a slight change from last quarter where commodity trojans surpassed ransomware by a narrow margin. Several high-profile ransomware groups appeared in CTIR engagements…

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are essential to the functioning of the cloud. APIs are what allow access to and management of cloud services. They also are frequently used to connect microservices, such as containers, within the cloud. In the last decade, application development has moved away from the creation of one monolithic application in favor…

Context On October 22, 2022, Bleeping Computer reported the technical details of a new Windows zero-day vulnerability that “allows threat actors to use malicious stand-alone JavaScript files to bypass Mark-of-the-Web security warnings.” Bleeping Computer assesses that the zero-day was leveraged by ransomware threat actors to deliver the Magniber ransomware in a recent campaign. Technical Details…

DevSecOps is an approach to application development that emphasizes collaboration between the development, security, and operations teams. Security is introduced early and is continuously monitored throughout the development lifecycle so a secure application can be rapidly released with fewer security-related bottlenecks when it reaches production. Companies that adopt a DevSecOps approach need tools that can…

Context On October 18, 2022, Symentec researchers reported an extension to the Operation CuckooBees campaign leveraging the Spyder Loader to target government organizations in Hong Kong. Community Impact Operation CuckooBees is publicly attributed to APT41 (also known as Winnti), a Chinese state-backed threat group based on tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). The campaign was initially…

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an opportunity for organizations to spend a little extra effort educating their non-security staff on security best practices. This training generally focuses on basics such as enabling MFA, strengthening passwords, and teaching the warning signs of phishing. While these actions can improve your security posture when successfully adopted, training is…

The RH-ISAC is officially launching a community Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP) instance for our core members. By utilizing an open-source threat intelligence platform (TIP) like MISP, we can share, store, enrich, vet, correlate, and analyze our shared intelligence. MISP includes many galaxy clusters containing the MITRE ATT&CK framework, Threat Actors, and Tools, to name…