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April 4, 2024
Updated on April 5, 2024
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[CyberSecurity.PH #019] – reported Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data leak; vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers; US agency scolds Microsoft on substandard cloud security; Phishing-as-a-service MFA bypass; Supply chain attack on SSH inserts backdoor via XZ library


Philippines

  • PBBM urges Army forces to bolster cybersecurity capabilities
  • Twitter report of Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data leak

Cybersecurity Threat Landscape

  • German cyber agency warns 37 percent of Microsoft Exchange servers are vulnerable to critical bugs
  • Microsoft told to clean up substandard cloud cybersecurity by US federal review board
  • Apple account “MFA Bombing” targeting users to cause account compromise
  • Phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform “Tycoon 2FA” designed to bypass MFA targets Microsoft 365 and Gmail accounts
  • Free VPN apps on Google Play silently turn Android phones into network proxies
  • Discord Bot Python SDK modified to include a fake Colorama package with malware from a fake typo-squatted PyPi repo

Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

  • Supply chain attack on SSH inserts malicious backdoor code via XZ library
  • Microsoft SharePoint RCE vulnerabilities actively exploited

Cybersecurity Engineering

  • Google Chrome implements “’Device Bound Session Credentials” using TPM to sign session-auth cookies