Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Discovery, (Sat, Oct 30th)

I have noticed a surge in probe against the RDP service in the past 2 weeks. In August, a remote code execution (RCE) critical patch was released to fix an exploit related to CVE-2021-34535 which include a POC to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability is also affecting Microsoft Hyper-V Manager “Enhanced Session Mode” [5] and Microsoft Defender’s Application Guard (WDAG) [6].

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Multiple Apple Patches for October 2021, (Thu, Oct 28th)

With the recent release of macOS Monterey 12.0.1, multiple security vulnerabilities were addressed [1]. For users who were not keen to update to macOS Monterey either due to personal or operational reasons, security updates for macOS Catalina [2] and macOS Big Sur [3] were also made available.

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Decrypting Cobalt Strike Traffic With a “Leaked” Private Key, (Mon, Oct 25th)

Cobalt Strike C2 traffic is encrypted with AES. The AES key is randomly generated by the beacon, and communicated to the team server via RSA encrypted metadata. The beacon contains the public RSA key, and the team server the private RSA key.

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