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CASE: ATLASSIAN CONFLUENCE

After Veloxity identified a zero-day vulnerability, DIVD, DTC, and NSM cooperated to reach out to notify 18.469 vulnerable ISPs.

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NEWS: INGE BRYAN NIEUWE BESTUURSVOORZITTER DIVD

Met trots en plezier maken we bekend dat Inge Bryan de nieuwe bestuursvoorzitter is van het Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure. Ze neemt deze rol over van Astrid Oosenbrug. Astrid legt de voorzittershamer neer om zich meer te gaan richten op de ontwikkeling van de DIVD Academy.

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CASE: GLOBAL VMWARE ESXI RANSOMWARE ATTACKS

In cooperation with DIVD, NCSC-NL and several EU govcerts, 14,986 global vulnerable hosts were found and notified.

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CASE : AUTHENTICATION BYPASS IN JETBRAINS TEAMCITY

A critical security issue was recently identified in TeamCity On-Premises. If abused, the flaw may enable an unauthenticated attacker with HTTP(S) access to a TeamCity server to perform bypass authentication checks and gain administrative control of that TeamCity server.

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NEWS: Veel gemeenten reageren nog niet adequaat op beveiligingslekken

Veel gemeenten reageren te traag of niet adequaat genoeg op meldingen over beveiligingslekken. Deze zogenoemde Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosures (CVD meldingen) worden vaak gedaan door ethische hackers die zo het internet veiliger willen maken. Dit proces is de laatste jaren wel verbeterd, maar er blijft nog steeds een wereld te winnen voor de gemeenten. Dat blijkt uit een recent uitgevoerd onderzoek van de Universiteit Twente en Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) onder 114 Nederlandse gemeenten.

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CASE: KASEYA VSA, BEHIND THE SCENES

In April 2021 Dutch hackers found a number of vulnerabilities in software used by Kaseya, a business that makes tools for system managers working remotely. This is a translation of a chapter from the book Hackers by Gerard Janssen. This chapter starts after the story of Dutch hacker Victor Gevers discovered that two-factor authentication of Donald Trump’s Twitter account was disabled and guessed his Twitter password, in November 2020.

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CASE: APACHE LOG4J2

Apache reported a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Log4j2, the vulnerability in the Log framework of Apache makes it possible to misuse the record log information feature. This makes it possible for an attacker to construct special data request packets through this vulnerable component, and ultimately trigger remote code execution.

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CASE: SOLARWINDS ORION

On December 8, 2020, FireEye announced that the company had fallen victim to a hack. DIVD scanned for Supernova and found around 700 vulnerable Solarwinds Orion systems facing the internet, worldwide, including systems of foreign defense units and satellite communication. Eight of these systems used IP addresses from the Netherlands.

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CASE: LEAKED PHISHING CREDENTIALS (ZOOM)

At the end of November 2020, criminals conducted a phishing campaign that mimicked Zoom message invites and notifications about mail quarantine. On January 1, 2021, email notifications were sent to the victims of this phishing scheme. In total, 370 emails were distributed.

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CASE: FACEBOOK LEAK

On April 4 several news platforms reported personal data of 533 million Facebook users was leaked. This is actually a non-report, but it demonstrates where we draw the boundaries on what we can and cannot do according to our code of conduct.

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CASE: SMBv3 SERVER COMPRESSION TRANSFORM HEADER MEMORY CORRUPTION

On March 10, 2020, Microsoft published information about a serious vulnerability in Microsoft’s Server Block Protocol version 3. The vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) is a remote code execution vulnerability that exists in the way that the Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 (SMBv3) protocol handles certain requests.