Threat Source (April 11)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

RSAC 2019: TLS Markets Flourish on the Dark Web

SAN FRANCISCO – Thriving marketplaces for TLS certificates have emerged on the Dark Web, which are hawking the certs both as individual goods and packaged with an array of malware and other ancillary services. The research, from Venafi, the University of Surrey and the Evidence-based Cybersecurit...

Smart Ski Helmet Headphone Flaws Leak Personal, GPS Data

Researchers have found a slew of vulnerabilities in a pair of smart headphones designed to fit under ski helmets. The flaws could allow a bad actor to view victims’ personal information, track them and even listen to their private conversations via the headphones’ walkie-talkie function, which us...

What to Expect at RSA 2019

Attending RSAC 2019? The week promises to be full of exciting content, useful connections, networking and insights into new security trends. BSides San Francisco The week will start on March 3rd with the amazing BSides event. The BSides community has continuously raised the bar and put the INFO...

250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

More than 250 customers of a popular and powerful online attack-for-hire service that was dismantled by authorities in 2018 are expected to face legal action for the damage they caused, according to Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency. In April 2018, investigators in the U.S., U....

6 Signs of Successful Threat Hunting

When a threat hunting program is established by an organization, their goal is to proactively hunt threats, with a focus on newer, more sophisticated attacks for which reliable signatures or indicators are not yet available. However, without an effective threat hunting program, the attacker is...

Cryptomining Malware Uninstalls Cloud Security Products

Researchers say they have discovered a unique malware family capable of gaining admin rights on targeted systems by uninstalling cloud-security products. Instances of the malicious activity are tied to coin-mining malware targeting Linux servers. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, which published the...

ABB CP400 Panel Builder TextEditor 2.0

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v7.0 Vendor: ABB Equipment: CP400 Panel Builder TextEditor 2.0 Vulnerability: Improper Input Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, and cause a denial-of-service condition within the...

1Password 7.0 - Denial of Service

1Password 7.0 - Denial of Service Description The 1Password application 7.0 for Android is affected by a Denial Of Service vulnerability. By starting the activity com.agilebits.onepassword.filling.openyolo.OpenYoloDeleteActivity or com.agilebits.onepassword.filling.openyolo.OpenYoloRetrieveActivi...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Vivo V7 Android device with a build fingerprint of vivo/1718/1718:7.1.2/N2G47H/compil11021857:user/release-keys contains a platform app with a package name of com.vivo.bsptest versionCode=1, versionName=1.0 containing an exported activity app component named com.vivo.bsptest.BSPTestActivity...

Friday Squid Blogging: Illegal North Korean Squid Fishing

North Korea is engaged in even more illegal squid fishing than previously. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Connecting the dots between recently active cryptominers

Post authored by David Liebenberg and Andrew Williams. Executive Summary Through Cisco Talos' investigation of illicit cryptocurrency mining campaigns in the past year, we began to notice that many of these campaigns shared remarkably similar TTPs, which we at first mistakenly interpreted as bein...

235 members of dark web money counterfeiting gang busted

By Waqas The Dark Web has become a thriving hub of all sorts of criminal activities from selling illegal drugs to the distribution of ransomware and running child porn platforms. To tackle the situation, a wide-scale crackdown was launched by European law enforcement agencies throughout Europe...

Quarterly SPM Support Bulletin 2015 Q4

Question Quarterly SPM Support Bulletin 2015 Q4 Answer SPM Support Bulletin ICM 9.0.2 Released ICM 9.0.2 has been released. You can find the release documentation here. Highlights include; setting scheduler properties per process allowing more flexible on error handling, new charts in Presenter...

6 Signs of Successful Threat Hunting

When a threat hunting program is established by an organization, their goal is to proactively hunt threats, with a focus on newer, more sophisticated attacks for which reliable signatures or indicators are not yet available. Bonus: Check out the "Top 5 Threat Hunting Myths" However, without an...

U.S. Mid-term Elections and Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector

The last few years have witnessed seismic changes in the world's political landscape and the way elections have been conducted. As of yet, there's no conclusive evidence that the results and outcomes of a country's election process have been impacted by the cyber efforts of internal or foreign...

Open Source Network Access Control: PacketFence

PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control NAC system. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices,...

Pentagon Draws Back the Veil on APT Malware with Sudden Embrace of VirusTotal

The Pentagon has suddenly started uploading malware samples from APTs and other nation-state sources to the website VirusTotal, which is essentially a malware zoo that’s used by security pros and antivirus/malware detection engines to gain a better understanding of the threat landscape. The Cyber...

Information security: How Hackers Leverage Stolen Data for Profit

Data theft is inarguably big business for hackers. This has been proven time and time again when big-name companies and their customers are involved in a data breach. As these instances appear to take place more often, and the number of stolen or compromised files continues to rise, it's worth...

The BEC List: Helping Thwart Business Email Compromise through Collaboration

Today, the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group M3AAWG gave the JD Falk Award to the Business Email Compromise BEC List. The BEC List comprises cybersecurity firms, researchers and internet infrastructure companies that help deal with cybercriminal activities and schemes. The JD...