Cyber Bites

* Thousands of Websites Exposed AWS Credentials, Leading to Large-Scale Extortion Campaign

* Mac Users Beware: Microsoft Apps May Have Allowed Hackers to Spy on You

* Ransomware on Track for Record Year Despite Fewer Victims Paying

* FlightAware Data Breach Exposes User Information for Years

* GitHub Actions Exposing Authentication Tokens in Popular Open-Source Projects

Special Thanks to Justin Butterfield once again for contributing some of the interesting stories for this week’s cyber bites.

* Background Check Company National Public Data Hit by Massive Data Breach Affecting Nearly 3 Billion People

* Trojan Malware Campaign Hijacks Browsers, Steals Data of Over 300,000 Users (https://reasonlabs.com/research/new-widespread-extension-trojan-malware-campaign)

* Australian Gold Miner Evolution Hit by Ransomware Attack

* Critical Browser Flaw Exposes Local Networks to Attack via "0.0.0.0"

* Hackers Breaches Educational Security Software Company and Wipes 13,000 students’ iPads and Chromebooks

* Australia to Mandate Ransomware Payment Disclosure

* Hackers Abuse Free Cloudflare Tunnels to deliver Remote Access Trojans

* Stack Exchange Used by Threat Actors to Promote Malicious Open Source Components

* Hackers Poison Software Updates Through ISP Breach

* New Podcast Aims to Unlock Secrets of Application Security

* SBOMs: A Crucial Tool Hampered by Standardization Issues

* Mysterious Rings and QR Codes: The Emergence of Brushing Scams

* France Battles Cyberespionage Ahead of Olympics

* GitHub's Dark Secret: Deleted Data Never Really Dies

The recent CrowdStrike update that led to a global IT outage and the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) on millions of Windows machines. This incident has brought to light critical lessons in DevSecOps and the importance of Business Continuity Planning (BCP).

Joining me today is a very special guest, Denny Wan who is the Founder of the Reasonable Security Institute, an expert in cybersecurity and risk quantification. We’re going to speak about lessons learned in DevSecOps and BCP and get his thoughts and insights.

A video recording of the interview is also available below.

Show Notes

Denny Wan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wandenny/

FAIR Institute - https://www.fairinstitute.org/

* Hackers Capitalize on CrowdStrike Outage with Phishing and Malware Attacks

* Massive Data Breach at Australian Prescription Service MediSecure

* 20 Million Domains at Risk from New Email Spoofing Attacks

* Google U-Turns on Third-Party Cookie Phaseout

* North Korean Hacker Poses as IT Worker in Attempted Cyberattack

Are there a lot more assumed trust in global cybersecurity vendors that security professionals assess them with less rigor compared to other vendors?

This week, we'll be covering five major stories:

1. AT&T's massive data breach affecting 109 million customers

2. Key findings from the 2024 SANS SOC Survey

3. Cloudflare's report on the rapid exploitation of vulnerabilities

4. A new ransomware gang targeting unpatched Veeam software

5. A leaked GitHub token that exposed Python to potential tampering

This week we're looking at leaked Ticketmaster tickets, major security flaw affecting almost every Apple Device, booking.com scams, US government failure to investigate SolarWinds and Hackers having second thoughts after crippling Indonesian government systems.

* Hackers Leak Ticketmaster Print-at-Home Tickets, Threatening Fans and Event* Major Security Flaw in CocoaPods Exposes Millions of Apple Devices to Supply Chain Attacks* Booking.com Scams: How to Avoid Getting Stung During Vacation Booking* US Govt Board Failed to Investigate Major Cyberattack Despite Presidential Order* Hackers Apologize After Crippling Indonesian Government Systems, Release Encryption Key

My recent conference presentation on open-source security revealed a common theme. Audience members didn’t realize how pervasive open-source is. Everyone in the audience knew that their organization uses a fair number of open-source components, but they thought that it only makes up a small percentage of their applications, at around 30% or less.