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Incident alertCrowdStrike Outage
On July 19, 2024, a flawed software update issued by the security company CrowdStrike for their Falcon platform triggered a “negative interaction” between the update and Microsoft’s operating system, which then caused computers and servers to crash across the globe. Although a fix was quickly identified, this incident led to organizations experiencing a significant amount of operational disruption, lost productivity, negative customer experience and financial losses.
It may take weeks or months to completely return to normal.
Verizon recommends that organizations evaluate their immediate and mid-to-longer term software and patch management processes as well as cyber security programs.
Threat alert
CL0P MOVEit Campaign
A campaign orchestrated by CL0P commenced in late May 2023, leveraging a then unknown SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-34362) in MOVEit Transfer. This led to the installation of a web shell named LEMURLOOT, enabling unauthorized access to the MOVEit Transfer databases.
Threat alert
Social Engineering: Smishing
The Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center has recently observed a significant rise in smishing attacks against organizations. These attacks manipulate individuals, through fraudulent text messaging, into disclosing sensitive information or performing actions that compromise an organization's security.
Past threat alert
Killnet
DDoS attacks
Killnet, a Russia aligned threat actor group, recently claimed responsibility for a series of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks against U.S. airport websites. The group has called for DDoS attacks on other U.S. infrastructure targets, in retaliation for the U.S. government's support for Ukraine in its war with Russia.
Past threat alert
Russian escalations
in cyberspace
The global risk of cyber attacks has increased since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Capable of delivering destructive malware, Russia is believed to possess cyber espionage and offensive cyber operations capabilities. Critical infrastructure, financial, energy and public sector organizations should maintain a heightened state of readiness.
Past threat alert
Log4Shell: Remote code execution vulnerability
In December 2021, Apache released a security advisory disclosing multiple zero-day exploits identified in Log4j—an open-source Java logging library. The vulnerabilities, also known as Log4Shell, allowed threat actors to execute unauthorized remote code execution (RCE) and/or unauthorized Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
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Intelligence Advisory
DHS Cyber Safety Review Board public report on Log4j event
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