Cyware Weekly Cyber Threat Intelligence October 15 -19, 2018

Weekly Threat Briefing • October 19, 2018
Weekly Threat Briefing • October 19, 2018
Every week, cybercrime is becoming rampant as attacks get fiercer and hackers more sophisticated. Still, this week saw some new initiatives being taken in the field of cyber technology. Researchers from the MIT created a new system to protect against Meltdown and Spectre attacks. Shanghai’s International Airport introduced a new facial recognition technology based system to check-in passengers. This technology may have a huge impact in shaping the security industry in the future. The Army started working towards a new strategy that would leverage Artificial Intelligence.
This week, numerous data breaches came to light including exposure of US Voter records that impacted around 35 million people. Furthermore, a misconfigured AWS server operated by the Tea Party resulted in the leakage of sensitive details of around half a million people. In another incident, a water company already dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence was attacked by a ransomware campaign resulting in one-of-its-kind a joint physical and a cyber disaster.
A fresh batch of nasty vulnerabilities was unearthed this week including the simple RID hijacking technique that allows a hacker to cause privilege escalation. In another incident, Libssh library was found vulnerable to a flaw that put thousands of servers vulnerable to attacks. Finally, a new data reconnaissance campaign leveraging attack techniques dating back to the year 2010 and first used by APT1 was discovered.