Apple Updates Everything: MacOS 12.3, XCode 13.3, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, iPadOS 15.4 and more, (Mon, Mar 14th)

Apple today released one of its massive “surprise” updates for all of its operating systems. This includes updates for Safari as well as stand-alone security updates for older operating systems like macOS Big Sur and Catalina. As so often, this also includes feature updates for the respective operating systems.

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Keep an Eye on WebSockets, (Fri, Mar 11th)

It has been a while that I did not spot WebSockets used by malware. Yesterday I discovered an interesting piece of Powershell. Very small and almost undetected according to its Virustotal score (2/54)&#;x26;#;x5b;1&#;x26;#;x5d;. A quick reminder for those that don&#;x26;#;39;t know what a “WebSocket” is. When you perform a classic HTTP request to a server, it replies with some data and closes the connection. WebSockets make the client/server push messages at any time without any relation to a previous request. Compared to HTTP, they allow bi-directional protocols, full-duplex and, over a single TCP connection.

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Credentials Leaks on VirusTotal, (Thu, Mar 10th)

A few weeks ago, researchers published some information about stolen credentials that were posted on Virustotal[1]. I’m keeping an eye on VT for my customers and searching for data related to them. For example, I looking for their domain name(s) inside files posted on VT. I may confirm what researchers said, there are a lot of passwords leaks shared on VTI but yesterday, there was a peak of files uploaded on this platform.

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