Cybersecurity

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a new alert highlighting technical approaches to uncovering malicious activity and providing mitigation steps according to best practices. The purpose of the report is to enhance incident response among partners and network administrators along with serving as a playbook for incident investigation. CISA built this report in collaboration with the cybersecurity authorities of four other nations, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

CISA has published an advisory on reflected cross-site scripting, stored cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, hidden functionality, and use of unmaintained third-party components vulnerabilities in Red Lion N-Tron 702-W and 702M12-W. All versions of both products are affected. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information, execute system commands, and perform actions in the context of an attacked user. Red Lion’s 702-W Series was discontinued in 2018 and cannot be updated.

CISA has published an advisory on an inadequate encryption strength vulnerability in Emerson OpenEnterprise. All versions through 3.3.5 are affected. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker access to credentials held by OpenEnterprise used for accessing field devices and external systems. Emerson recommends all users upgrade to OpenEnterprise 3.3, Service Pack 6 (3.3.6), to resolve this issue. CISA also recommends a series of measures to mitigate the vulnerability.

The Avaddon ransomware operators claimed to have breached and leaked stolen data from a concrete formwork construction company involved in water infrastructure projects, including water treatment plants and reservoirs. Through information provided by a trusted third party, WaterISAC is aware that Avaddon is claiming on its darkweb site to have leaked 25% of the data reportedly stolen from EFCO (www[.]efcoforms[.]com). Avaddon is a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) malware and has recently jumped on the data breach bandwagon.