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The supply-chain cyberattack that targeted Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer application has compromised over 963 private and public-sector organizations worldwide. The ransomware group, Cl0p, launched this attack campaign over Memorial Day weekend.
Some higher-profile victims of the hack include Maximus, Deloitte, TIAA, Ernst & Young, Shell, Deutsche Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sony, Siemens, BBC, British Airways, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, and other U.S. government agencies. Thus far, the personal data of over 58 million people is believed to have been exposed in this exploit campaign.
This blog is based on a session we presented at DEF CON 2023 on Sunday, August 13, 2023, in Las Vegas. Privilege escalation is a common attack vector in the Windows OS. There are multiple offensive tools in the wild that can execute code as “NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM” (Meterpreter, CobaltStrike, Potato tools), and they all usually do so by duplicating tokens and manipulating services. This allows them to perform attacks like LSASS Shtinkering.
App Management is a new macOS security feature in Ventura introduced at WWDC last year:
If an app is modified by something that isn't signed by the same development team and isn't allowed by an NSUpdateSecurityPolicy, macOS will block the modification and notify the user that an app wants to manage other apps. Clicking on the notification sends people to System Settings, where they can allow an app to update and modify other apps.