Security Week in Review–from WatchGuard

This is a text-version of last week’s security news summary. If you’re interested in the important and interesting security stories you may have missed last week, check out the bulleted-list below.  

• Shamoon malware wipes HD and MBR - An Israeli security firm called Seculert discovered a malware variant that steals info, then erases your hard drive (HD) and wipes your master boot record (MBR), preventing your computer from booting. Though the malware has infected at least one Middle Eastern energy company, experts do not think Shamoon comes from the same authors as other APTs.
• Citadel trojan seems to target airline employees - A security company found a version of the Citadel botnet trojan that seems to target airlines, by attempting to steal employees’ VPN credentials. The malware specifically tries to capture some of the additional authentication tokens certain VPN clients require.
• Blizzard credential breach - Blizzard is the latest victim of yet another password/credential breach. Though Blizzard salts their hash, you should still change your Blizzard credentials
• Anonymous claims another PSN hack; Sony says no - In a tweet and Pastebin post, Anonymous claims they breached Sony PSN network again, and stole the information from 10 million PSN users. Sony says the breach didn’t happen. Chalk this one up to an Anonymous hoax.
• Tridium releases ICS software patches – Tridium creates automation software for lighting and HVAC systems. US-CERT warned of many vulnerabilities in their software, and Tridium released updates to fix them this week. Just more evidence of how digital attacks can affect physical infrastructure.
• Android malware triples in a quarter - One of WatchGuard’s partners, Kaspersky, released a security report last week that included some interesting facts about mobile malware. They found that Android malware has increased three-fold, and mostly focuses on SMS trojans that steal money.
• Wikileaks Trapwire release and DDoS attack- A few weekends ago, Wikileaks released information about how certain agencies are leveraging video surveillance systems to track people (codenamed Trapwire). Shortly after this release, the Wikileaks site suffered DDoS attacks from a group called Antileaks. Antileaks says the incidents are unrelated.