[email protected] to the win!

I didn’t know about that tool. Apparently, it is a CDR, which I like very much. I’m not aware of any good open-source implementations.

Very nice approach!

Some points about the article:

Nature of the Vulnerability: The vulnerability is a security flaw that allows leaking the email associated with a YouTube channel by exploiting endpoints from both YouTube and Google Pixel Recorder.

Impact: It allows an attacker to obtain the email associated with any YouTube channel, which can lead to phishing attacks, privacy invasion, and other malicious activities. This potentially affects all YouTube users who own a channel.

Fix Status: The vulnerability has been fixed by Google. Both parts of the exploit were resolved by 02/09/2025, and the report was disclosed on 02/12/2025.

Apparently was not related to a cyber attack, as stated in status page (https://status.proton.me/)

We have resolved all service outages, and the situation has been stable for some time. We have identified the root cause of the problem, implemented a fix, and are now monitoring the results. Jan 09, 2025 - 19:27 CET

Original research: https://www.jamf.com/blog/tcc-bypass-steals-data-from-icloud/

For now, the threat actor is just claiming that they hacked BT. No prove whatsoever. Groups usually post a sample of the data when they claim a victim, but that is not the case, for now.

If you are asking if the main attack vector was phishing, they are not clear on that:

According to statements released by Brain Cipher, they have exploited critical weaknesses within Deloitte UK’s cybersecurity infrastructure.

Welcome! I dont know you background, but I would suggest get into selfhosting. There are several projects related to cybersecurity, fun and useful. Ex: MISP, Pihole, The Hive.

Nevertheless: https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-fortinet-partnership-unifies-endpoint-firewall-protection/

That’s why I don’t use Kaspersky :)

In my opinion, you will always be at the mercy of a government in this context: US, China, Russia. In the end it’s a matter of choosing which one. FOSS maybe a little less, but in the end it’s almost the same. That’s my view, of course. That doesn’t mean you can’t give them a hard time ;)

This one does not spark joy.

Update: Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-hezbollah-pagers-explosives.html)

You can use https://tails.net/ booting from another flash drive in memory only.

Take that with a grain of salt.

Agreed

I like to use the 2013 Target breach case. They lost $1 billion due to the attack, their stocks dropped significantly after the attack, had several lawsuits, they closed a few stores, and changed the CEO and CIO. But a few months later, all was forgiven, their stocks recovered, and life went on.

Don’t get me wrong, the risks of a cyber attack have to be taken seriously. But I feel that I have overestimated the impacts of reputational damage my whole life, as an infosec professional. My thinking was always like this: if you get reputational damage, you are done, no chance to recover, it is the end of it.

I’m following the Crowdstrike case, but I would bet that they will lose some market share (mostly prospects), perhaps some layoffs, but stocks will come up eventually.

Not as much as if it contained passwords, for sure. Bu it gives a nice mailing list for phishing and so on.

Depends of the country. Disrupt with Internet/communications may be a crime in some countries.

Kudos to SOC team.