VPNFilter’s Arsenal Expands With Newly Discovered Modules

Researchers have discovered new modules in VPNFilter – the malware behind the widespread campaign in May that infected 75 router brands – revealing that its capabilities are much more widespread and sophisticated than previously thought. After reverse-engineering seven additional third-stage...

Capability Manager Enhanced <= 1.5.8 - Authenticated SQLi

The PublishPress Capabilities: Manage WordPress Permissions and Edit User Roles WordPress plugin was affected by an Authenticated SQLi security vulnerability...

New Malware Combines Ransomware, Coin Mining and Botnet Features in One

Windows and Linux users need to beware, as an all-in-one, destructive malware strain has been discovered in the wild that features multiple malware capabilities including ransomware, cryptocurrency miner, botnet, and self-propagating worm targeting Linux and Windows systems. Dubbed XBash, the new...

Microsoft and Imperva Collaboration Bolsters Data Compliance and Security Capabilities

This article explains how Imperva SecureSphere V13.2 has leveraged the latest Microsoft EventHub enhancements to help customers maintain compliance and security controls as regulated or sensitive data is migrated to Azure SQL database instances. Database as a Service Benefits Platform as a Servic...

Using MITRE ATT&CK When Researching Attacker Behavior in a Post-Compromise World

MITRE ATT&CK is arguably one of the best assets available to security professionals who want to dive into the intricacies of detecting and preventing adversary behaviors. Why is that? It’s a great knowledge base of known adversarial behaviors overlayed with attacker TTPs and their state in the...

Practical application of artificial intelligence that can transform cybersecurity

As I write this blog post, Im sitting by the beach on my computer in a sunny destination while my family plays in the water. Were on vacation, but we all have our own definition of fun. For me its writing blogs on the beachreally! The headspace is outstanding for uninterrupted thinking time and...

Cb Response Named Leader in EDR Space by Forrester

Last quarter, Forrester created a report assessing the state of the EDR market and how vendors stack up against one another. A variety of companies were evaluated in three key areas: The strengths and weaknesses of their current offerings. Forrester cited key criteria to include: alerting...

Threat Roundup for August 24-31

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed this week — covering the dates between Aug. 24 and 31. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, we will summarize the threats we’ve observed by...

Security Bulletin: Official Statement On Spectre and Meltdown

Summary IBM Security statement on the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities Vulnerability Details As many clients are likely aware of by now, 2 major security flaws impacting chipsets across the PC and mobile spectrums have unfolded over the last day or so. Meltdown Intel only and Spectre...

Partner Perspectives: Creating Your Own Threat Hunting Army

Idan Bellayev is the head of security research for empow. Cyber intelligence is one of the strongest tools that can be used to combat a potential attacker. Accessing the information needed to build cyber intelligence from a reliable source is typically difficult and very expensive - but it doesn’...

VPNFilter botnet

On May 23, 2018, Talos disclosed in a blog post the discovery of a modular malware system they deemed "VPNFilter", affecting multiple network devices wordwide, and embedding Botnet capabilities...

Triout Malware Carries Out Extensive, Targeted Android Surveillance

A mobile spyware for Android was disclosed today, with extensive, advanced surveillance capabilities that suggest that a sophisticated actor is pulling the strings. Using a recently discovered malware dubbed Triout, bad actors are tapping into the proliferating footprint of Android-based...

Partnering with the industry to minimize false positives

Every day, antivirus capabilities in Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP protect millions of customers from threats. To effectively scale protection, Windows Defender ATP uses intelligent systems that combine multiple layers of machine learning models, behavior-based...

openSUSE Security Update : znc (openSUSE-2018-819)

This update for znc fixes the following issues : - Update to version 1.7.1 - CVE-2018-14055: non-admin user could gain admin privileges and shell access by injecting values into znc.conf bnc1101281 - CVE-2018-14056: path traversal in HTTP handler via ../ in a web skin name. bnc1101280 - Update to...

Security update for znc (moderate)

This update for znc fixes the following issues: - Update to version 1.7.1 CVE-2018-14055: non-admin user could gain admin privileges and shell access by injecting values into znc.conf bnc1101281 CVE-2018-14056: path traversal in HTTP handler via ../ in a web skin name. bnc1101280 - Update to...

Unspecified vulnerability in ARM mbed TLS (CNVD-2021-59608)

ARM mbed TLS formerly PolarSSL is a product from ARM UK that provides secure communication and encryption capabilities for mbed products. A security vulnerability exists in ARM mbed TLS versions prior to 2.12.0, prior to 2.7.5, and prior to 2.1.14, which stems from an incorrect fix for the...

Highly Sophisticated Parasite RAT Emerges on the Dark Web

Researchers are tracking a remote access trojan RAT on underground markets that, so far, has only been attributed to one small malicious email campaign. However, the RAT, dubbed Parasite HTTP by the Proofpoint researchers that discovered it, has an impressive list of sophisticated features –...

Authentication flaw

There are few web pages associated with the genie app on the Netgear WNDR4500 running firmware version V1.0.1.401.0.6877. Genie app adds some capabilities over the Web GUI and can be accessed even when you are away from home. A remote attacker can access genieping.htm or genieping2.htm or...

CentOS Update for libvirt CESA-2018:1997 centos7

Check the version of libvirt SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882917";...

PT-2018-10144 · Red Hat · Podman

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: podman versions prior to 0.6.1 Description: The issue arises from podman not dropping capabilities when a container is executed as a non-root user, resulting in unnecessary privileges being granted to the container. Recommendations: For...