4 Predictions for the Cybersecurity Landscape in 2018

Targeted attacks are on the rise, and the dark web isn’t helping curb that trend. To compound this, the recent revelations on Shadow Brokers and CIA Vault 7, as well as burgeoning nation-state cyber capabilities aren’t helping either. It’s only a matter of time before more attack methods are...

Yet Another FBI Proposal for Insecure Communications

Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein has given talks where he proposes that tech companies decrease their communications and device security for the benefit of the FBI. In a recent talk, his idea is that tech companies just save a copy of the plaintext: Law enforcement can also partner with private...

libvirt security update

0.10.2-62.0.1.el69.1 - Replace docs/et.png in tarball with blank image 0.10.2-62.el69.1 - util: Implement virFileReadHeaderFD CVE-2017-5715 - util: add virFileReadHeaderQuiet wrapper around virFileReadHeaderFD CVE-2017-5715 - util: introduce virHostCPUGetMicrocodeVersion CVE-2017-5715 - conf:...

Linux Expl0rer - Easy-To-Use Live Forensics Toolbox For Linux Endpoints

Easy-to-use live forensics toolbox for Linux endpoints written in Python & Flask. Capabilities ps View full process list Inspect process memory map & fetch memory strings easly Dump process memory in one click Automaticly search hash in public services VirusTotal AlienVault OTX users users list...

Mitigating and eliminating info-stealing Qakbot and Emotet in corporate networks

The threat to sensitive financial information is greater than ever. Data breaches, phishing attacks, and other forms of information theft are all too common in today’s threat landscape. Point-of-sale systems and ATMs have been targeted by hackers. Information-stealing trojans pose a risk to data...

PT-2017-3918

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions tcpdump versions prior to 4.9.3 Description The issue is related to a buffer over-read in the BGP parser of the tcpdump utility, specifically in the bgp capabilities print function. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial ...

Significant FormBook Distribution Campaigns Impacting the U.S. and South Korea

We observed several high-volume FormBook malware distribution campaigns primarily taking aim at Aerospace, Defense Contractor, and Manufacturing sectors within the U.S. and South Korea during the past few months. The attackers involved in these email campaigns leveraged a variety of distribution...

Insights into Iranian Cyber Espionage: APT33 Targets Aerospace and Energy Sectors and has Ties to Destructive Malware

When discussing suspected Middle Eastern hacker groups with destructive capabilities, many automatically think of the suspected Iranian group that previously used SHAMOON – aka Disttrack – to target organizations in the Persian Gulf. However, over the past few years, we have been tracking a...

Python Network Hacking Toolkit: Habu

These are basic functions that help with some tasks for Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing. Much of the functions are really basic like get our public IP address, but are really useful in some cases. Installation To install Habu, simply: $ pip install habu Dependencies Habu requires: Click...

Partner Perspective: Integrated Endpoint Protection and Response

Editor's Note: The post originally appeared on LogRhythm.com Maintaining visibility of hundreds—if not thousands—of endpoints and then taking corrective actions to the discovered abnormalities is a critical security challenge many organizations face today. Most organizations dedicate substantial...

Petya expands its scope: A global ransomware threat

Ransomware remains a formidable threat for individual users and businesses alike, particularly as new sample families continue to be discovered by security researchers. What makes ransomware so dangerous is the fact that victims are denied access to their most important files and data - a problem...

Artificial Inteligent Packet Inspection Engine: AIEngine

AIEngine is a next generation interactive/programmable Python/Ruby/Java packet inspection engine with capabilities of learning without any human intervention, NIDS Network Intrusion Detection System functionality, DNS domain classification, network collector, network forensics and many others...

Unenforced Capability

Moodle has unenforced capabilities. The moodle/site:accessallgroups capability isn't enforced for outside-group users in the SEPARATEGROUPS configuration. Leveraging this flaw, authenticated attackers can perform login as actions through a direct request...

smb2-capabilities NSE Script

Attempts to list the supported capabilities in a SMBv2 server for each enabled dialect. The script sends a SMB2COMNEGOTIATE command and parses the response using the SMB dialects: 2.0.2 2.1 3.0 3.0.2 3.1.1 References: Script Arguments randomseed, smbbasic, smbport, smbsign See the documentation f...

macOS Fruitfly Backdoor Analysis Renders New Spying Capabilities

LAS VEGAS—The FruitFly backdoor became a known entity in January, but it’s a good bet that for years it had been in the wild, undetected by analysts and security software. The macOS and OS X malware has a number of insidious spying capabilities that would make anyone uneasy, and a variant recentl...

FBI Releases Article on Privacy Risks Associated with Internet-Connected Children's Toys

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on the privacy risks associated with Internet-connected children's toys. FBI warns that Internet-connected toys may contain "sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, and other multimedia capabilities - including speech...

What is the hype around Firewall as a Service?

Admit it. Who would not want their firewall maintenance grunt work to go away? For more than 20 years, companies either managed their edge firewall appliances or had service providers rack-and-stack appliances in their data centers and did it for them. This was called a managed firewall — an...

Announcing the July ‘17 Release of Cb Defense

Editor's Note: If you are looking for the May 2017 Cb Defense release content, please scroll to the bottom of this page. This week, we’re happy to announce the rollout of the July ‘17 update of Cb Defense. Following the May ‘17 release, we heard a tremendous amount of positive feedback on the new...

Running an Effective Incident Response Tabletop Exercise

Are you ready for an incident? Are you confident that your team knows the procedures, and that the procedures are actually useful? An incident response tabletop exercise is an excellent way to answer these questions. Below, Ive outlined some steps to help ensure success for your scenario-based...

New ransomware, old techniques: Petya adds worm capabilities

Note: We have published a follow-up blog entry on this ransomware attack. We have new findings from our continued investigation, as well as platform mitigation and protection information: Windows 10 platform resilience against the Petya ransomware attack. Read our latest comprehensive report on...