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2018-02-14 | Mutating malware targets the Olympics, U.S. midterm vote-protection effort update, and One does not simply fix a Skype bug
Wednesday, February 14
TOP STORY
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Olympic Destroyer modifies itself to include harvested credentials. Talos updated their initial blog post to reflect the new finding. Endgame wrote a brief overview on their analysis and how to stop #OlympicDestroyer.
HACKTIVITY
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Improper markup sanitisation in Simplenote Android application. [8 upvotes] - $300 bounty for this report to WordPress by @edoverflow.
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Prototype pollution attack (Hoek) [2 upvotes] - no bounty for this report to Node.js third party modules by @holyvier.
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TWEET OF THE DAY
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Yes, let's - @helenvholmes
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
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Skype bug too hard to fix. Technical security debt is so fun.
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Georgia State Senate passed S.B 315 (without Senator Jennifer Jordan’s improvements)
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How goes the vote-protection efforts? Not as good as one would hope.
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Intel’s bug bounty goes public (and ups bounties)
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Lukasz Olejnik analyzes the French cybersecurity strategy
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Equifax: More private data was stolen in 2017 breach than first revealed
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The credentials have not been hardcoded into the binary by the attackers themselves. The malware dynamically updates this list after using the password stealers. A new version of the binary is generated with the newly discovered credentials. This new binary will be used on the new infected systems via the propagation. This feature explains why we discovered several samples with different sets of credentials that were collected from previously infected systems.
