Blowing the Whistle on Bad Attribution

The New York Times this week published a fascinating story about a young programmer in Ukraine who'd turned himself in to the local police. The Times says the man did so after one of his software tools was identified by the U.S. government as part of the arsenal used by Russian hackers suspected ...

Spammer's Arrest Puts End to Kelihos Botnet

The alleged Russian botmaster behind the Kelihos botnet was arrested while on vacation in Spain, putting an end to a seven-year cybercrime operation that foisted hundreds of millions of spam messages on consumers, as well as a dangerous array of banking malware and ransomware. Pyotr Levashov, als...

Immunity Canvas: MS17_010

Name| ms17010 ---|--- CVE| CVE-2017-0143, CVE-2017-0146 Exploit Pack| CANVAS Description| MS17-010 Notes| CVE Name: CVE-2017-0143, CVE-2017-0146 VENDOR: Microsoft NOTES: https://github.com/worawit/MS17-010 https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/badrabbit-ms17-010-exploitation-part-one-leak-and-control/...

FBI-DHS Report Links Fancy Bear Gang to Election Hacks

In a report released Thursday the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Department of Homeland Security implicated Russian hacking group Fancy Bear in attacks against several election-related targets. According to the Joint Analysis Report, the hacking group Fancy Bear, believed to have ties...

Automated Security Response: Falcon Orchestrator

CrowdStrike Falcon Orchestrator is an extendable Windows-based application that provides workflow automation, case management and security response functionality. The tool leverages the highly extensible APIs contained within the CrowdStrike Falcon Connect program. Falcon Orchestrator has only be...

Windows 8.1 kernel exploit—CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 3 vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 1. Case description: 2 0 1 4 years 1 0 month 1 4 day, CrowdStrike and FireEye, two IT companies each publish a blog post, in which are invariably introduced a Windows-based system to the new kernel privilege elevation vulnerability. CrowdStrike, the company mentioned in the article: they are on...

AdGholas Malvertising Campaign Leveraged Steganography, Filtering

For over a year attackers were able to carry out a malvertising campaign that managed to draw between one and five million client hits a day, according to researchers. The scam infected thousands a day using a one-two-punch of filtering and steganography, the art of hiding information inside...

DNC Hacked, Research on Trump Stolen

Two separate APT groups believed to have ties to the Russian government have been fingered in attacks against the Democratic National Committee resulting in the theft of research done by the DNC on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Researchers at Crowdstrike, called in to investigate b...

Xen Patches VM Escape Flaw

The Xen Project has patched a serious vulnerability that could allow an attacker in a guest virtual machine to escape and gain the ability to run arbitrary code on the host machine. The vulnerability is in the QEMU open source machine emulator that ships as part of the Xen hypervisor. The problem...

CentOS Update for kmod-kvm CESA-2015:1003 centos5

Check the version of kmod-kvm SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882193";...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

RHEL 6 / 7 : rhev-hypervisor (RHSA-2015:1011)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1011 advisory. The rhev-hypervisor packages provide a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization...

Oracle Patches VENOM Vulnerability

Oracle, whose virtualization software VirtualBox is among those affected by the VENOM vulnerability, on Saturday joined the litany of VM providers that have patched the bug. Oracle was one of the first vendors notified by Crowdstrike, whose researcher Jason Geffner found the bug and disclosed it...

VENOM venom vulnerability analysis qemu kvm CVE‐2 0 1 5‐3 4 5 6-the vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Vulnerability description CrowdStrike, Jason Geffner found open source computer emulator QEMU in the presence of a and a virtual floppy disk controller associated with the security vulnerability, code-named VENOM, the CVE number for CVE-2 0 1 5-3 4 5 6 The. Using this vulnerability an attacker ca...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor security update

Updated rhev-hypervisor packages that fix one security issue are now available. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the...

Venom Vulnerability Exposes Most Data Centers to Cyber Attacks

Just after a new security vulnerability surfaced Wednesday, many tech outlets started comparing it with HeartBleed, the serious security glitch uncovered last year that rendered communications with many well-known web services insecure, potentially exposing Millions of plain-text passwords. But...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

Updated qemu-kvm-rhev packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severi...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kvm security update

Updated kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from t...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

Updated qemu-kvm-rhev packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0. Red Hat Product Security has...