https://pwn.watch/t/espionage Live security incidents worldwide: CVEs, patch status, fixed versions, advisories and the posts that broke them. en Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://pwn.watch/i/beyondtrust-remote-support-us-treasury-breach-cve-2024-12356 https://pwn.watch/i/beyondtrust-remote-support-us-treasury-breach-cve-2024-12356 Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT critical <p>Attackers stole a BeyondTrust infrastructure API key for its Remote Support SaaS service and used it to reset local passwords and access 17 customer instances. The US Treasury, one of the customers, said a China state-sponsored actor accessed some Departmental Offices workstations and unclassified documents. During the investigation BeyondTrust found a critical command injection in Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access (CVE-2024-12356, CVSS 9.8) and patched it on 2024-12-16. Added to the CISA KEV catalog on 2024-12-19.</p> <p><strong>Status:</strong> closed · <strong>Patch:</strong> patched · <strong>Fixed in:</strong> Patches BT24-10-ONPREM1 / BT24-10-ONPREM2 (BeyondTrust); cloud instances patched 2024-12-16</p> <p><strong>Latest updates:</strong></p><ul><li>2024-12-30: Treasury tells Congress of a 'major incident' attributed to a China state-sponsored APT (<a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25472698/letter-from-treasury-re-december-2024-cyberattack.pdf">source</a>)</li><li>2024-12-19: CISA added CVE-2024-12356 to the KEV catalog (federal deadline 2024-12-27) (<a href="https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog">source</a>)</li><li>2024-12-17: CVE-2024-12356 published (<a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12356">source</a>)</li></ul> <p><strong>CVEs:</strong> CVE-2024-12356</p> https://pwn.watch/i/salt-typhoon-us-telecom-breaches https://pwn.watch/i/salt-typhoon-us-telecom-breaches Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT critical <p>PRC-affiliated actors (publicly called Salt Typhoon) compromised networks at multiple US telecommunications companies. The FBI and CISA said they stole customer call records, got into the private communications of a limited number of people mainly involved in government or political activity, and copied information subject to US law enforcement wiretap requests. Allied agencies then published hardening guidance for communications infrastructure.</p> <p><strong>Status:</strong> closed · <strong>Patch:</strong> no-fix-needed</p> <p><strong>Latest updates:</strong></p><ul><li>2024-12-04: CISA, NSA, FBI and Five Eyes partners release hardening guidance for communications infrastructure (<a href="https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/enhanced-visibility-and-hardening-guidance-communications-infrastructure">source</a>)</li><li>2024-11-13: FBI and CISA joint statement on PRC targeting of commercial telecommunications (<a href="https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/joint-statement-fbi-and-cisa-peoples-republic-china-prc-targeting-commercial-telecommunications">source</a>)</li></ul> https://pwn.watch/i/cisco-asa-ftd-arcanedoor-cve-2024-20353-20359 https://pwn.watch/i/cisco-asa-ftd-arcanedoor-cve-2024-20353-20359 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT high <p>Cisco Talos disclosed ArcaneDoor, a state-sponsored campaign against perimeter devices that exploited two Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense zero-days: a denial of service (CVE-2024-20353) and a persistent local code execution bug (CVE-2024-20359), used to plant the Line Dancer and Line Runner implants. Added to the CISA KEV catalog on 2024-04-24.</p> <p><strong>Status:</strong> closed · <strong>Patch:</strong> patched · <strong>Fixed in:</strong> See vendor advisory linked in sources</p> <p><strong>Latest updates:</strong></p><ul><li>2024-04-24: CVE-2024-20353 published (<a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20353">source</a>)</li><li>2024-04-24: CVE-2024-20359 published (<a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20359">source</a>)</li><li>2024-04-24: CISA added CVE-2024-20353 to the KEV catalog (federal deadline 2024-05-01) (<a href="https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog">source</a>)</li></ul> <p><strong>CVEs:</strong> CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359</p> https://pwn.watch/i/microsoft-midnight-blizzard-corporate-email-breach https://pwn.watch/i/microsoft-midnight-blizzard-corporate-email-breach Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT high <p>Russia's Midnight Blizzard (APT29) password-sprayed a legacy, non-production Microsoft test tenant without MFA, then abused an OAuth app to read email of Microsoft senior leadership and security staff. Microsoft detected the attack on 2024-01-12. Stolen emails included correspondence with US federal agencies, so CISA issued Emergency Directive 24-02 ordering agencies to analyze the exposed emails and reset any compromised credentials.</p> <p><strong>Status:</strong> closed · <strong>Patch:</strong> no-fix-needed</p> <p><strong>Latest updates:</strong></p><ul><li>2024-04-02: CISA issues Emergency Directive 24-02 for agencies whose email with Microsoft was exposed (<a href="https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-24-02-mitigating-significant-risk-nation-state-compromise-microsoft-corporate-email-system">source</a>)</li><li>2024-01-25: Microsoft publishes guidance for responders on the Midnight Blizzard attack (<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/01/25/midnight-blizzard-guidance-for-responders-on-nation-state-attack/">source</a>)</li><li>2024-01-12: Microsoft detects a nation-state attack on its corporate systems (<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/01/25/midnight-blizzard-guidance-for-responders-on-nation-state-attack/">source</a>)</li></ul>