Cybersecurity Weekly Briefing — July 5, 2024

Executive briefing: The week ending July 5, 2024 forced security, infrastructure, and privacy teams to respond in parallel. OpenSSH disclosed CVE-2024-6387—nicknamed “RegreSSHion”—bringing back a remote code execution flaw that had been dormant for nearly two decades. Oregon began enforcing its comprehensive consumer privacy law, and U.S. cyber agencies published fresh intelligence on People’s Republic of China state-sponsored living-off-the-land operations.

Week of July 1 developments

July 1 — CVE-2024-6387 (“RegreSSHion”). OpenSSH 9.8p1 patched a signal handler race condition that lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on glibc-based systems when LoginGraceTime is disabled or set high. Distros including Debian, Red Hat, and Ubuntu issued urgent updates.
July 1 — Oregon Consumer Privacy Act enforcement. ORS 646A.520 became effective, granting residents rights to access, delete, correct, and opt out of targeted advertising or data sales. The Attorney General may impose civil penalties after a 30-day cure period that sunsets January 1, 2026.
July 2 — Volt Typhoon hunting guide. CISA, FBI, NSA, and allied agencies released AA24-184A, detailing how PRC operators persist via stolen credentials, remote services, and built-in Windows tools across communications, energy, water, and transportation sectors.

Response priorities

Patch or backport OpenSSH 9.8p1, enforce LoginGraceTime 30, and monitor for abnormal sshd crashes that can indicate exploitation attempts.
Review Oregon data inventories, honoring opt-out requests within 45 days and documenting processor contracts that meet ORS 646A.535 requirements.
Deploy detections for credential theft and lateral movement patterns highlighted in AA24-184A, including abnormal use of schtasks, wmic, and Remote Desktop Services.

Control alignment

NIST CSF 2.0 PR.PS & DE.CM. Harden secure configuration baselines for SSH and expand continuous monitoring for identity abuse.
CIS Controls v8 4.6 & 16.12. Verify patch deployment status and enforce centralized log collection for remote access tooling.
ISO/IEC 27701:2019 7.3.1. Update privacy governance artifacts to reflect Oregon Consumer Privacy Act rights handling.

Enablement moves

Run tabletop exercises covering simultaneous SSH exploitation and privacy complaints so response teams practice dual-track communications.
Augment vendor questionnaires with Oregon-specific contractual clauses and evidence that processors can process opt-out flows.
Instrument OT environments with deep packet inspection or allow-listing for remote management channels targeted by Volt Typhoon.

Sources

Zeph Tech is coordinating emergency OpenSSH patch runbooks, Oregon privacy readiness workshops, and Volt Typhoon threat hunting packages for regulated operators.