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Joint Cybersecurity Advisory – #StopRansomware: Zeppelin Ransomware

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) on Zeppelin ransomware, providing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) to help organizations defend against this threat. Zeppelin ransomware is a spinoff of the Delphi-based Vega malware family and operates as a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS). From 2019 through at least June 2022, attackers have used this malware to target a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure entities.

What the Twilio Breach Teaches Us About Smishing and Access to Corporate Accounts and Data

As Twilio recently learned, threat actors are able to breach internal corporate systems by stealing employee credentials through SMS phishing (smishing) attacks. The work-from-home paradigm notwithstanding as a potential contributing factor to smishing-based compromises, the incident demonstrates that organizations are not immune from smishing attacks targeting employee devices.

Threat Awareness – Another Microsoft Phishing Campaign Capable of Bypassing Multifactor Authentication

A new large-scale phishing campaign is employing a custom proxy-based phishing kit to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) and a variety of URL obfuscation techniques to circumvent email security software to steal credentials for Microsoft email accounts, according to security researchers at Zscaler. Notably, the campaign has targeted energy companies in the U.S., the U.K., New Zealand, and Australia. Researchers believe the goal of the campaign is to compromise corporate email accounts to carry out BEC (business email compromise) attacks.

Cyber Resilience – CISA’s Cyber Guidance and Free Resources for Small Businesses

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a cybersecurity action plan and resource guide for small organizations that may not have the maturity or financial resources of larger firms. In the guide, CISA lays out an action plan informed by the way cyber attacks actually happen. According to CISA, “we break the tasks down by role, starting with the CEO. We then detail tasks for a Security Program Manager, and the Information Technology (IT) team.

CISA ICS Vulnerability Advisories and Alerts, Updates, and Bulletins - August 4, 2022

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the following ICS vulnerability advisories, as well as alerts, updates, and bulletins:

ICS Vulnerability Advisories:

Alerts, Updates, and Bulletins:

Security Awareness – Trustworthy Brands Make for Convincing Scams

When it comes to phishing and other scams, as a society, we’ve largely grasped the age-old “don’t click on things you don’t recognize” advice. However, threat actors turned that age-old advice against us years ago when they began leveraging well-known brands to trick us into clicking on their malicious links and attachments. The success of social engineering based cyber attacks relies on trust and it’s the trust those brands have already engendered that give scams the air of credibility.

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