Software: IBM SAN Volume Controller, IBM Storwize, IBM FlashSystem and IBM Storage Virtualize products Affected versions: 8.3 Vendor page: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7064976 CVE Reference: CVE-2023-43042 Published: 08/12/2023 CVSS 3.0 Score: 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Attack Vector: Network Credit: Max Corbridge Summary JUMPSEC’s Head of Adversarial Simulation (@CorbridgeMax) discovered that an unauthenticated user can determine whether the default superuser password...
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Red Teaming the Cloud: A Shift in Perspective
Having delivered entirely cloud red teams, JUMPSEC experts discuss the shifts in perspective necessary for red teamers when targeting cloud environments.
Advisory: IDOR in Microsoft Teams Allows for External Tenants to Introduce Malware
TL;DR Max Corbridge (@CorbridgeMax) and Tom Ellson (@tde_sec) of JUMPSEC’s Red Team recently discovered a vulnerability in the latest version of Microsoft Teams which allows for the possible introduction of malware into any organisations using Microsoft Teams in its default configuration. This is done by bypassing client-side security controls which prevent external tenants from sending files (malware in this case) to staff in your organisation. JUMPSEC has detailed remediation options, as...
Hunting the Snake: An Overview of Threat Hunting with Velociraptor
In May 2023 the NCSC and CISA released a joint cyber security advisory addressing a piece of Russian malware called Snake. According to them, this malware has been gathering intelligence for the FSB in more than 50 countries for the last 20 years. Off the back of this advisory JUMPSEC decided to perform a number of threat hunts to provide assurance for some of our clients. Whilst conducting these hunts, we thought it would be beneficial to share the high-level methodology for this in the form...
Ligolo: Quality of Life on Red Team Engagements
In recent months we, JUMPSEC’s red team, have been using a nifty little tool that we would like to share with you in this blog post. Ligolo-ng is a versatile tool that has been aiding our covert, and slightly-less-covert, engagements with regards to tunnelling, exfiltration, persistence, and widely improving the operators’ “quality of life” when carrying out assessments involving beaconing from within an internal network. This highly-useful tool is developed by Nicolas Chatelain and can be...
Hunting for ‘Snake’
Following the NCSC and CISA’s detailed joint advisory on the highly sophisticated ‘Snake’ cyber espionage tool, JUMPSEC threat intelligence analysts have provided a condensed blueprint for organisations to start proactively hunting for Snake within their network, contextualising key Indicators of Compromise (IoC), and providing additional methods to validate the effectiveness of Snake detections. Snake’s capabilities The implant dubbed ‘Snake’ has been attributed to Centre 16 of Russia’s state...
Advisory CVE-2023-30382 – Half-Life Local Privilege Escalation
Software: Half-Life Affected versions: Latest (<= build 5433873), at the time of writing Vendor page: www.valvesoftware.com CVE Reference: CVE-2023-30382 Published: 23/05/2023 CVSS 3.1 Score: 8.2 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H Attack Vector: Local Credit: Ryan Saridar Summary An attacker can leverage a stack-based buffer overflow via Half-Life’s command line arguments to compromise the account of any local user who launches the game. Technical details hl.exe does not adequately perform...
Butting Heads with a Threat Actor on an Engagement
After compromising a sensitive external server JUMPSEC’s Red Team found that they were not the first ones there…
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