PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Disrupted by Malware Attack

The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics taking place in South Korea was disrupted over the weekend following a malware attack before and during the opening ceremony on Friday. The cyber attack coincided with 12 hours of downtime on the official website for the Winter Games, the collapse of Wi-Fi in the...

Beers with Talos EP 21: How to Hire the Best, Attribution Without Apaches is Useless

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 21 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP21 Show Notes: It is a packed episode this time! We are joined by Edmund from the Talos Outreach Grou...

Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade on APT Fourth-Party Collection

Costin Raiu and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade talk to Mike Mimoso live from Virus Bulletin in Madrid about APTs leveraging one anothers’ attacks and compromised machines as their own. The practice, known as fourth-party collection, is wreaking havoc for researchers with regard to attribution...

The Festive Complexities of SIGINT-Capable Threat Actors

To read the full paper and learn more about this, refer to "Walking in Your Enemy's Shadow: When Fourth-Party Collection Becomes Attribution Hell" Attribution is complicated under the best of circumstances. Sparse attributory indicators and the possibility of overt manipulation have proven enough...

Explained: digital forensics

What is it? Digital forensics is a modern day field of forensic science, which deals with the recovery and investigation of material found in digital devices. When needed, this is often because of a cyber crime, whether suspected or established. The most common reasons for performing digital...

What are the Benefits of Attribution?

Whodunnit? The superior detective dazzles us with brilliance, skill, and patience to unmask the bad guy. The interplay of forensic science and psychological insight have fascinated us from Sherlock Holmes to the CSI television series. Sometimes the answer is completely surprising, as in Murder on...

Linux/x86 - Reverse TCP Shellcode (67 bytes)

/ Tiny Shell Reverse TCP Shellcode - C Language Linux/x86 Written in 2013 by Geyslan G. Bem, Hacking bits http://hackingbits.com email protected This source is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Brazil License. To view a copy of this license, visit...

EternalPetya – yet another stolen piece in the package?

Since June 27th we have been investigating the outbreak of the new Petya-like malware armed with an infector similar to WannaCry. Since day one, various contradicting theories started popping up. Some believed that this malware is a rip-off of the original Petya, while others think that it is...

Dan Geer: Cybersecurity, Humanity's Future "Conjoined"

Given the intertwinement of technology with communication, politics, economies and overall human progress, it seems to go hand-in-hand that cybersecurity must be elevated in parallel. Dan Geer, considered atop the food chain of security thinkers, said during last week’s Source Boston conference...

Setting Expectations Between States on Cyberwar

A a panel of security experts at the RSA Conference on Wednesday said there is a lack of agreement on a definition of cyberwarfare and of the tools used to fight them. “Words matter and it’s important to have definitions. But one of the challenges is the pace of innovation gets in front of doctri...

Nation States Distancing Themselves from APTs

SAN FRANCISCO – Security researchers say a new trend in privateering is gaining traction among nation states, which are increasingly contracting with private companies to carry out state-sponsored attacks. Typically APT attacks have been the work of internal government spy apparatuses, but...

GLSA-201701-56 : zlib: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201701-56 zlib: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in zlib. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : An attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition...

On Russia's Involvement in the US Election, Burlington Electric, Firecrypt, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including on this week’s U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing, the Burlington Electric ‘Hack’ and attribution, FireCrypt, and Security Without Borders. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJanuary62017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Vermont Grid 'Hack' Latest Tumble Down Attribution Rabbit Hole

A Vermont utility was for a brief moment last week at the center of a geopolitical scandal in which the Russian government was implicated in an attack against a U.S. electric grid. As it turns out, a laptop at Burlington Electric Department was infected with the Neutrino Exploit Kit. There was no...

Attributing Advanced Attacks Remains Challenge For Researchers

Amid the connections being made between the Russian government and the attack on the Democratic National Committee DNC, researchers on Tuesday reminded us of the challenges security experts have in correctly attributing advanced attacks. In a wide-ranging Reddit AMA, members of Kaspersky Lab’s...

U.S. developing Technology to Identify and Track Hackers Worldwide

Without adequate analysis and algorithms, mass surveillance is not the answer to fighting terrorism and tracking suspects. That's what President Obama had learned last year when he signed the USA Freedom Act, which ends the bulk collection of domestic phone data by US Intelligence Agencies. There...

Defenders Need to Embrace Offensive Computer Security Skillsets

MIAMI—Defense may win football championships, but it gets steamrolled in computer security arenas. “A dollar of offense beats a dollar of defense,” said Nate Fick, CEO of Endgame Inc., on Thursday during his keynote address at Infiltrate Conference. Fick’s talk in front of an audience of exploit...

CanSecWest 2016 Attack Attribution False Flags

With every APT report there comes the gnawing question of whodunit. Just this week, a Reuters report linked a spree of ransomware attacks against U.S. companies to state-sponsored hacker groups in China. Most reports, however, offer no tangible evidence other than technological footprints that ca...

Content Injection via TileJSON attribute

Overview Versions 1.x prior to 1.6.5 and 2.x prior to 2.1.7 of mapbox.js are vulnerable to a cross-site-scripting attack in certain uncommon usage scenarios. If L.mapbox.map or L.mapbox.tileLayer are used to load untrusted TileJSON content from a non-Mapbox URL, it is possible for a malicious use...

Backdoor credentials found in 4 TOTOLINK router models

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Advisory Information Title: Backdoor credentials found in 4 TOTOLINK router models Advisory URL: https://pierrekim.github.io/advisories/2015-totolink-0x03.txt Blog URL:...