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Internal Threats

New Malware Miner Sneakily Hides When Task Manager Is Open - Meet “Norman” – a new
variant of monero-mining malware that employs crafty tricks to avoid being spotted. The
malicious code was identified by researchers at data security firm Varonis when investigating a
crypto-miner infestation at a “mid-size company." Almost every server and workstation was
infected with malware. Most were generic variants of cryptominers. Some were password
dumping tools, some were hidden PHP shells, and some had been present for several years,” the
firm said.

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/malware-miner-sneakily-hides-task-
133003762.html/

4 New BlueKeep-like 'Wormable' Windows Remote Desktop Flaws Discovered - If you are using
any supported version of the Windows operating system, stop everything and install the latest
security updates from Microsoft immediately.Windows operating system contains four new critical
wormable, remote code execution vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services, similar to the
recently patched 'BlueKeep' RDP vulnerability.Discovered by Microsoft's security team itself, all
four vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-1181, CVE-2019-1182, CVE-2019-1222, and CVE-2019-1226, can be
exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to take control of an affected computer system
without requiring any user interaction.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2019/08/windows-rdp-wormable-flaws.html

Firefox fixes “master password” security bypass bug - Firefox just pushed out an update to fix a
security glitch……in its password manager. Mozilla delivers a new major version every six weeks on
what we jocularly call fortytwosday, given that it always comes out on a Tuesday (and that 6 × 7 =
42).Point releases, mainly to fix security issues, often come out between the main fortytwosday
versions, as in this case, taking the full version number of the current 68-flavoured release from
68.0.1 to 68.0.2.
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/08/15/firefox-fixes-master-password-
security-bypass-bug/

Critical updates for Microsoft Patch Tuesday may cause testing headaches - This is a huge month
for Patch Tuesday as Microsoft attempts to address 93 unique vulnerabilities spanning Windows
desktop and server platforms, Microsoft Office and core development tools. Without the pressure
of a publicly reported vulnerability and with no Zero-days to urgently address, we recommend a
measured pace of testing before deployment for the Windows and Office updates, with a more
rapid pace for the IE and development tools patches. Do yourself a favor and reference this handy
infographics on the status of each update group.

Source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3432169/critical-updates-for-microsoft-
patch-tuesday-may-cause-testing-headaches.html
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