2017 - The Year Everyone Got Hacked

2017 was a big year for malware, hacks, and data breaches. Voting machines proved to be easily hackable, Uber was caught paying off cybercriminals, and of course, Equifax experienced a breach that affected 140 million Americans. On the latest episode of Decoding Security, security analysts Jessica Ortega, Ramuel Gall, and producer/security analyst Topher Tebow count down the top ten cybersecurity issues of the past year.

Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats of 2017
2017 - The Year Everyone Got Hacked

2017 was a big year for malware, and data breaches. We even discovered new information about old data breaches, like the Yahoo breach that resulted in more account credentials being leaked than there were users on the Internet at the time. This being our last episode of 2017, we are going to go over the top ten cybersecurity issues that hit this year.

Recent News

Net Neutrality

Thursday, December 14th, the FCC voted to end net neutrality in a 3-2 vote. Now it’s up to the senate to block this, or let this decision stand.

WordPress

WP Keylogger

https://www.scmagazine.com/wordpress-hit-with-keylogger-5400-sites-infected/article/712733/

Null themes

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wp-vcd-wordpress-malware-spreads-via-nulled-wordpress-themes/

https://blog.barkly.com/ransomware-statistics-2017

http://www.businessinsider.com/with-2017-poised-to-be-the-year-of-ransomware-more-cyber-spending-is-on-the-way-2017-5ess-malware-spreads-via-nulled-wordpress-themes/

ROBOT attack

https://robotattack.org

2017 Top 10

10 Freedom Hosting II

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/55990/deep-web/freedom-hosting-ii-hack.html

Took down a significant chunk of the dark web - including child abuse content

9 CCleaner Hack

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/18/16325202/ccleaner-hack-malware-security

Hackers hid malware in legitimate CCleaner software

8 Defcon Hacks Voting Machines

https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/10/defcon-event-reveals-ease-of-hacking-voting-systems/

Voting machines were hacked in under 90 minutes

7 Cloudbleed

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/cloudbleed-bug-everything-you-need-to-know/

Patched super fast, but gave Cloudflare users access to other users' data

6 KRACK

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/how-the-krack-attack-destroys-nearly-all-wi-fi-security/

KRACK rendered nearly all wifi security vulnerable

5 Uber Coverup

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/uber-hack.html

Don’t negotiate with cyber terrorists

4 Leaky S3 Buckets

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/04/ussecurityclearanceawsbreach/

https://threatpost.com/experts-warn-too-often-aws-s3-buckets-are-misconfigured-leak-data/126826/

https://blog.detectify.com/2017/07/13/aws-s3-misconfiguration-explained-fix/?utmsource=labs&utmcampaign=s3_buckets

Verizon and US Military data leaked due to mis-configured Amazon S3 buckets

3 EternalBlue/Shadow Brokers

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/nsa-leaking-shadow-brokers-just-dumped-its-most-damaging-release-yet/

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-eternal-blue-exploit-vulnerability-patch

Enabled much of the ransomware we saw in 2017

2 Equihax

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/09/equifax-data-breach-what-do

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/equifax-breach-setting-the-record-straight/

How not to handle a breach

Apache Struts

1 Ransomware

https://blog.barkly.com/ransomware-statistics-2017
http://www.businessinsider.com/with-2017-poised-to-be-the-year-of-ransomware-more-cyber-spending-is-on-the-way-2017-5

Petya/NotPetya/Goldeneye/Netya/BadRabbit/WannaCry

Final Tip

Watch out for malvertising. If you aren’t already familiar with the term, malvertising is the practice of placing an ad with a large ad network, then changing the code to direct you to malicious content. You’ll come across this even on trusted sites, like Facebook and Spotify.