Stealing, Kubernetes, Passkeys, SolarWinds, Intel, Sextortion, and… – SWN #423

Stealing Pencils, Kubernetes, Passkeys, SolarWinds, Intel, North Koreans, Sextortion, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

Air gaps are still not air gapped, making old exploits new again, chaining exploits for full compromise, patching is overrated, SBOMs are overrated, VPNs are overrated, getting root with a cigarette lighter, you can be any user you want to be, in-memory Linux malware, the Internet Archive is back, we still don't know who created Bitcoin, unhackable...

Today’s cyber threat actors are capitalizing on organizations’ identity vulnerabilities, such as MFA. Nearly 75% of cloud security failures now result from mismanaged identities, access, and privileges, and the identity attack surface is becoming more challenging to protect as companies expand their cloud environments and supply chains to meet thei...