A week in security (January 9—15)

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The most interesting security related news from the week of January 9—15.

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Fake Proof-of-Concepts used to lure security professionals

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Researchers from Leiden University analyzed many thousands of Proof-of-Concepts and found that 10 percent of those they found on GitHub are malicious

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Update now! GitLab issues critical security release for RCE vulnerability

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GitLab has released important security fixes to patch for an RCE vulnerability, known as CVE-2022-2884.

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Ukraine government and pro-Ukrainian sites hit by DDoS attacks

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:01:46 +0000

We can’t tell which party made the first move, but both the pro-Ukraine and Russian sides have been exchanging DDoS attacks.

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Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:27:35 +0000

When KrebsOnSecurity last month explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. But don’t tell that to Matt Donahue, a former FBI agent who recently quit the agency to launch a startup that aims to help tech companies do a better job screening out phony law enforcement data requests — in part by assigning trustworthiness or “credit ratings” to law enforcement authorities worldwide.

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Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 22:33:21 +0000

Researchers are tracking a number of open-source “protestware” projects on GitHub that have recently altered their code to display “Stand with Ukraine” messages for users, or basic facts about the carnage in Ukraine. The group also is tracking several code packages that were recently modified to erase files on computers that appear to be coming from Russian or Belarusian Internet addresses.

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