Bluepurple Pulse: week ending April 24th
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Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit (and my wider reading).
Operationally this week two things, the first was the campaign involving stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party integrators against Github. The second was that Java’s implementation of the cryptography signature algorithm ECDSA was broken allowing the spoofing of digital signatures in various situations - there will be a long tail of vulnerability as a result (see vulnerabilities section).
In the high-level this week:
The US put up a $5 million reward for information on North Korea individuals for amongst other things their cyber activity.
🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇦🇳🇿🇬🇧 Put out a joint alert on Russian State-Sponsored and Criminal Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure - Evolving intelligence indicates that the Russian government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks. I do stress exploring here..
U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals rules that Web Scraping is Legal and does not Breach…
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