Despite the fact that it is not a 'real' vulnerability, escaping privileged Docker containers is nevertheless pretty funny. And because there will always be people who will come up with reasons or excuses to run a privileged container (even though you really shouldn't), this could really be handy at some point in the future
If you use an Apple Macbook, it’s likely that you have a secret enclave for important secrets — such as your encryption keys. These keys define the core of the trust infrastructure on the device — and protect applications from stealing these secrets. The TEE also allows isolation between code which is fully trusted, and code that cannot be fully trusted. If this did not happen, we could install applications on our computer which would discover our login password and steal the encryption used used to key things secret and trusted.
On Feb. 4, Linux announced CVE-2022-0492, a new privilege escalation vulnerability in the kernel. CVE-2022-0492 marks a logical bug in control groups (cgroups), a Linux feature that is a fundamental building block of containers. The issue stands out as one of the simplest Linux privilege escalations discovered in recent times: The Linux kernel mistakenly exposed a privileged operation to unprivileged users.
Earlier today, I received a scam email that impersonates the Ukrainian Red Cross. It attempts to solicit donations via Bitcoin. The email is almost certainly not related to any valid Red Cross effort.
There are some legitimate efforts to collect donations for Ukraine using crypto-currencies. This scam may take advantage of these efforts.
Researchers have disclosed details of a new security vulnerability in GitLab, an open-source DevOps software, that could potentially allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to recover user-related information.
Les tensions internationales actuelles causées par l’invasion de l’Ukraine par la Russie s’accompagnent d’effets dans le cyberespace. Si les combats en Ukraine sont principalement conventionnels, l’ANSSI constate l’usage de cyberattaques dans le cadre du conflit. Dans un espace numérique sans frontières, ces cyberattaques peuvent affecter des entités françaises et il convient sans céder à la panique de l’anticiper et de s’y préparer. Aussi, afin de réduire au maximum la probabilité de tels événements et d’en limiter les effets, l’ANSSI partage des bonnes pratiques de sécurité ainsi que des éléments sur la menace et invite l’ensemble des acteurs à s’en saisir. A cette fin, ce bulletin centralise et diffuse les éléments d’intérêt cyber en lien avec le contexte actuel pour favoriser le renforcement du niveau de protection de l’ensemble des entités françaises. Il sera mis à jour régulièrement.
A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti, an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million…
Actions to Take Today: • Set antivirus and antimalware programs to conduct regular scans. • Enable strong spam filters to prevent phishing emails from reaching end users. • Filter network traffic. • Update software. • Require multifactor authentication. Leading up to Russia’s unprovoked attack against Ukraine, threat actors deployed destructive malware against organizations in Ukraine to destroy computer systems and render them inoperable.