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CISA: Russian Threat Actors Exploiting TeamCity Flaw

U.S. government agencies warn that Russian threat actors have been exploiting a known vulnerability in TeamCity since late September.

Russia

CISOs Gear Up For Compliance With SEC Cyber Regulations

The compliance deadlines for the SEC's cyber rules are this week, and CISOs have spent the last few months preparing in various ways.

CISO, SEC

Memory Safe: Phil Venables

In Decipher’s latest Memory Safe episode, Phil Venables, CISO at Google Cloud, talks about how he came to work in the cybersecurity space, how CISOs can help prop up potential future CISOs, and “striving for secure products, not security products.”

Memory Safe

New Initiative Seeks to Bring Collaboration to AI Security

The new AI Safety Initiative from the Cloud Security Alliance involves Amazon, Microsoft, and OpenAI in an effort to build a collaborative framework for AI security.

AI

Lazarus Group Log4j Attacks Spread New Malware Families

The campaign indicates a “definitive shift” in the threat group’s tactics as it continues to rely on non-traditional technologies and frameworks for developing its malware.

Malware, Lazarus

Apache Fixes Critical Struts Flaw

The Apache Software Foundation has released updates to address a critical file upload vulnerability (CVE-2023-50164) in Struts.

Apache

Decipher Podcast: Source Code 12/8

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher's weekly news wrap podcast with input from our sources.

Source Code

U.S., UK Sanction Russian APT Members

The NSA, UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Microsoft detailed recent changes in TTPs from a known Russian threat group.

Russia, Government Agencies

Decipher Podcast: Nathan Hamiel

Nathan Hamiel, senior director of research at Kudelski Security, talks about the intersection between AI and cybersecurity.

AI

Researchers Detail Sierra Wireless Router Bugs

Researchers are detailing 21 recently patched vulnerabilities that impact certain Sierra Wireless routers, including one critical-severity and nine high-severity flaws.

Flaw

ColdFusion Exploit Used to Access Federal Agency

In two separate intrusions, attackers exploited a ColdFusion vulnerability (CVE-2023-26360) to compromise an unnamed federal government agency.

Government

Russian Group Targeting Exchange Flaw

Fancy Bear, also known as APT28 and Forest Blizzard, has been targeting a Microsoft Exchange flaw (CVE-2023-23397) against targets in Poland.

Russia, Microsoft

VMware Patches Critical Authentication Bypass Bug

The patch is available two weeks after the vulnerability was first disclosed on Nov. 14.

Vmware

Apple Fixes Two Actively Exploited WebKit Bugs

The bugs (CVE-2023-42916 and CVE-2023-42917) enable sensitive information disclosure and arbitrary code execution.

Apple

U.S. and Allies Sanction Kimsuky Actors

The US and several allies have sanctioned eight North Korean nationals, including alleged members of the Kimsuky APT group.

North Korea