Sans News Bites for February 1, 2022: 3.47TB DDOS attack stopped, the winter games, Samba gets updated, and more

Hello folks,

Welcome to Sans News Bites. I’m really going to try and look at these newsletters and keep myself up to date. Even if we don’t talk about these in the show, the news that this agency has is something you might find of interest as they scower the web for information and bring it to you.

Here is the web page for this newsletter.

Top of the news

  • • Commerce OIG Report Finds Deficiencies in System Security Assessment and Continuous Monitoring Program
  • • QNAP Pushes Out NAS Firmware Update
  • • FBI Cybersecurity Warning for 2022 Olympics and Paralympics

The Rest of the News

  • • FBI Considered Using Pegasus Spyware
  • • Malicious Hybrid Cloud Campaign
  • • Microsoft Stopped Massive DDoS Late Last Year
  • • Finland Says Diplomats Phones Infected with Pegasus Spyware
  • • CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog Additions
  • • Samba Addresses Critical RCE Flaw
  • • Andorra Experiences Widespread Internet Outages Due to DDoS Attack

Its sad that the only ISP in Andora, a small country that borders France and Spain was attacked because there is the chance everyone could be affected in one way or another.

Microsoft got lucky and stopped a 3.47TB DDOS attack. According to the newsletter, this is the biggest to date.

There may be more, please read through it and if you want to talk about something, let me know.


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