TLDR InfoSec

TLDR INFORMATION SECURITY 2025-02-12

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01GENERAL

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Nudge Security has discovered over 1,000 unique GenAI tools [5] in customer environments to date, with new ones like DeepSeek popping up daily. While GenAI is clearly here to stay, IT and security teams need to take a proactive approach to mitigating AI risks.

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02ATTACKS & VULNERABILITIES

CYBERATTACK ON LEE ENTERPRISES CAUSES DISRUPTIONS AT DOZENS OF NEWSPAPERS

Lee Enterprises experienced a cyberattack on February 3 causing widespread disruptions to newspapers, subscriptions, and internal services. While it is likely it was ransomware, no group has claimed responsibility. Investigations and system restoration are still ongoing.

securityweek.com2 min read

CROOKS USE GOOGLE TAG MANAGER SKIMMER TO STEAL CREDIT CARD DATA FROM A MAGENTO-BASED E-STORES

Threat actors are using Google Tag Manager (GTM) to install credit card skimmer malware on Magento-based e-stores, according to Sucuri researchers. The malware hides in a website's database and steals credit card information entered during the checkout process, sending it to the attackers' server. This sophisticated attack demonstrates how criminals are using legitimate platforms like GTM to deploy malicious code that is difficult to detect.

securityaffairs.com2 min read

NEW HACK USES PROMPT INJECTION TO CORRUPT GEMINI LONG-TERM MEMORY

Many of the major LLMs have protections against basic prompt injection however researcher Johann Rehberger unveiled a new indirect prompt injection technique that utilizes delayed tool injection. In Rehberger's attack, Gemini is instructed to download and summarize a website, the summary that Gemini creates includes a covert request to take specific actions if the user responds with specific trigger words, once the user replies with the trigger word the instruction is saved to Gemini's long term memory. Google has responded that it will not fix the issue.

arstechnica.com5 min read

03STRATEGIES & TACTICS

BUILD YOUR OWN OFFENSIVE SECURITY LAB A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE WITH LUDUS

This is a guide for building a red team security lab using Ludus, which simplifies creating Active Directory environments with XDR/SIEM integration. Ludus' key advantages are its template system and YAML configuration for easy customization and sharing.

xphantom.nl17 min read

SECURE SANITIZATION AND DISPOSAL OF STORAGE MEDIA

Guidance from the UK's NCSC on how to properly sanitize or dispose of storage media for non-classified data. For devices that can be sanitized, if the device is encrypted (such as with FileVault or BitLocker) disposing of the cryptographic keys may be sufficient whereas devices that are unencrypted should be overwritten with a fixed value and then have the value read back after reboot. For devices that cannot be sanitized, they should be physically destroyed to pieces of a size smaller than 6nm.

ncsc.gov.uk5 min read

LEVELDB WAL LOG - EXTRACTING CHATGPT CONVERSATIONS

The ChatGPT desktop app makes use of LevelDB's write ahead log (WAL) to temporarily cache conversation history. This article examines and dissects the binary structure of the WAL file. The author uses the insights that they gained while researching this to create a generic parser for ChatGPT WAL files.

ilyakobzar.com7 min read

04LAUNCHES & TOOLS

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7AI (PRODUCT LAUNCH)

7ai provides autonomous ‘swarming agents' that can categorize threat alerts and then dispatches the appropriate agents that are capable of investigating the threat using data from multiple sources within the enterprise environment.

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GOSEC

Gosec inspects source code for security problems by scanning the Go Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) and Static Single Assignment (SSA) code representation.

github.comGitHub repository

STS SAML DRIVER

STS SAML Driver provides a local server which will receive SAML assertions from an IdP and attempts to assume the role. This allows users to retrieve temporary SAML credentials without interacting with an embedded browser.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

GOOGLE WILL NOW AUTOMATICALLY REVOKE PERMISSIONS FROM HARMFUL ANDROID APPS

Google's Play Protect will now automatically revoke permissions from apps that it detects to be potentially malicious. Users will be able to re-enable the permissions but will need to acknowledge an additional warning. This is part of Google's push to increase Play Protect's capabilities along with capabilities to automatically block known malicious apps.

theverge.com2 min read