Security: MuddyWater, DJI, Updates, Reproducible Builds and Excel
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MuddyWater: Hackers target Middle Eastern nations using fake NSA, Kaspersky documents
An unknown hacker group has been targeting Middle Eastern countries as well as others such as India, Pakistan, US and Georgia as part of what appears to be a massive cyber-espionage campaign. On Monday (20 November), the Saudi Arabian government's national cyber security center reportedly confirmed that the kingdom had been targeted by hackers since February.
The hacker group, dubbed MuddyWater, used fake documents, purporting to be from the NSA, Russian cybersecurity firm Kasperksy and the Iraqi government, among others, to trick victims into clicking on malicious documents. Security experts at Palo Alto Networks, who uncovered the campaign, said that the hackers are making use of a PowerShell-based first-stage backdoor called "POWERSTATS".
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Drone-Maker DJI Offers Bug Bounty Program, Then Threatens Bug-Finder With The CFAA
Far too many companies and industries out there seem to think that the best way to handle a security researcher finding security holes in their tech and websites is to immediately begin issuing threats. This is almost always monumentally dumb for any number of reasons, ranging from the work these researchers do actually being a benefit to these companies issuing the threats, to the resulting coverage of the threats making the vulnerabilities more widely known than they would have been otherwise.
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Security updates for Monday
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Reproducible builds folks: Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #133
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Windows, Mac and Linux all at risk from flaws in Excel file reader library
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