April 14

Apr 14, 2022

China is fucking around with US satellites. I thought Space Force was supposed to be protecting them?

“China ‘Decodes’ An Orbiting US Satellite; Claims Expertise In Automatically Detecting & Fixing Security Flaws In Outer Space”

https://eurasiantimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/eurasiantimes.com/china-decodes-an-orbiting-us-satellite-claims-expertise-in-automatically-detecting-fixing-security-flaws-in-outer-space/

There is a chance that, like… maybe vigilantes are going too far.

Hacking Russia space agency’s monitoring systems and bricking them seems not at all nice.

Chris Wysopal @WeldPond

Western hackers have turned RU's own ransomware against it in a cyber attack on the country's space agency. Network Battalion 65 posted images of server info that it claimed to show it had shut down a monitoring system used by the Russian space agency.

telegraph.co.ukRussia’s space programme hit by western cyber attackA group linked to the cyber hackers Anonymous have admitted to stealing files from the Russian space agency, Roscosmos

An interesting thread on cyberwar and infrastructure hacking within the context of war. There is some lumping together of the… cyberwar is like nuclear people, and the rest of us. But I’ll overlook that.

Sean Lawson 🇺🇦🌻 @seanlawson

There's a lot of buzz in the cyberwar twitterverse the last 24 hours about the thwarted Russian power grid hack. It's reported that if it had succeeded, it could have impacted up to 2 million people. That would not be good. It's good that it was stopped. BUT... 1/

A Russian naval vessel was involved in an anti-ship missile incident. The ship’s ammunition underwent a rapid state transition into hot gas, leading to a promotion from large cruiser to large semi-submersible.

The Moskva, blew up. There is actually room for debate over whether this is the result of enemy action, or just Russia’s poor track record of naval vessels randomly self destructing.

Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux

Amazing that when a key Russian warship blows up in a war zone, sober commentators have to admit that, given the Russian record on naval safety and maintenance, it might not have been attacked at all. Could have blown itself up. Picked an unwise fight with a drydock. 🤷‍♂️

The time the IRA botched a hit on an informer hiding in New York City.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/nyregion/cruxy-oconnor-ira-spy-wednesday.html

A REcon talk from 2018 on amazing hackery.

Travis Goodspeed @travisgoodspeed

Holy hell was this a good lecture. Elias made Starcraft Remastered backward compatible with memory corruption exploits that targeted the original game, at a commercial scale!

Elias Bachaalany @0xeb

At last, my talk "StarCraft Remastered: Emulating a buffer overflow" @ REcon 2018 (Brussels) is now available: https://t.co/Sw1Odw3CFf

Elias Bachaalany @0xeb

At last, my talk "StarCraft Remastered: Emulating a buffer overflow" @ REcon 2018 (Brussels) is now available:

youtube.comREcon 2018 - StarCraft Remastered: Emulating a buffer overflow for fun and profit.Turning a buffer overflow bug back into a feature. Slides: https://recon.cx/2018/brussels/resources/slides/RECON-BRX-2018-Starcraft-Emulating-a-buffer-overfl...

Lots more excitement over ICS malware. Dragos is involved. There is the usual behind the scenes drama. Interesting to note that this malware is not the stuff that was pulled off the electrical substation on April 8th. It is, instead, a new in box malware. A real collectors item now.

Selena @selenalarson

Now that is quite an assessment: "INCONTROLLER poses the greatest threat to Ukraine, NATO member states, and other states actively responding to Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

mandiant.comINCONTROLLER: New State-Sponsored Cyber Attack Tools Target Multiple Industrial Control SystemsThis ICS threat represents an exceptionally rare and dangerous cyber attack capability.

Sample available here

https://samples.vx-underground.org/APTs/2022/2022.04.13/

You would think that the DoD head of counterintelligence getting fired for having multiple affairs would be a bigger story. You would like to think that…

https://thedebrief.org/sex-lies-and-ufos-pentagons-head-of-counterintelligence-and-security-ousted/

Delicious serendipity. A postage stamp with “Russian warship, go fuck yourself!” and a picture of said warship, was released on the day the very same ship was sunk.