Supply chain

Such a vulnerability stems from impacted devices' usage of an American Megatrends International-generated Platform Key with the "DO NOT TRUST" tag that the vendors should have replaced, according to a report from the Binarly Research Team.

"While there were significant outages, disruption and loss of business, and an overall lack of system resilience, I am very encouraged overall by how everyone responded."

Such exposed information may have been exfiltrated from a compromised Diligent Corp. system leveraged by Leidos for internal investigation data hosting, noted a source close to the matter.

Doug and the Security Weekly crew talk about vulnerabilities, are we patching the right things? This is the burning question. We will try to answer it. Segment Resources: https://blog.sonicwall.com/en-us/2024/04/patch-tuesday-which-vulnerabilities-really-need-prioritizing/

The incident highlights update management, supply chain and resilience challenges.

Attackers leveraged an updated version of the Demodex kernel-level rootkit with more advanced tools and obfuscation techniques to compromise an unnamed organization's network.

An attempted rebound by LockBit and rise of fresh groups like RansomHub led to a 20% increase in claimed victims.