Threat Source newsletter (July 25, 2019)

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. No one really likes talking about election security. It’s a sticky subject, costs lots of money and doesn’t come with an easy fix...

MGASA-2019-0209 Updated rdesktop packages fix security issues

This is a security release to address various buffer overflow and overrun issues in the rdesktop protocol handling identified by Kaspersky Lab and National Cyber Security Centre. rdesktop will now detect any attempts to access invalid areas and refuse to continue...

Updated rdesktop packages fix security issues

This is a security release to address various buffer overflow and overrun issues in the rdesktop protocol handling identified by Kaspersky Lab and National Cyber Security Centre. rdesktop will now detect any attempts to access invalid areas and refuse to continue...

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security Releases Advisory on Fileless Malware

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security CCCS has released an advisory on an Astaroth fileless malware campaign affecting Microsoft Windows. Astaroth resides solely in memory, and an attacker can use it and other fileless malware to steal information, such as credentials and keystrokes, and obtain...

Microsoft Windows RDP BlueKeep Denial Of Service

Exploit Title: Bluekeep Denial of Service metasploit module Shodan Dork: port:3389 Date: 07/14/2019 Exploit Author: RAMELLA Sebastien https://github.com/mekhalleh/ Vendor Homepage: https://microsoft.com Version: all affected RDP services by cve-2019-0708 Tested on: Windows XP 32-bits / Windows 7...

Addressing the Cyber Security Skills Gap, Part 1

Operating in an adversarial driven world, cyber defenders are faced with many obstacles. In effort to keep pace with our adversarial counterpart, the cyber security skills gap has become the silent oppressor. In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series we will define the implications presented by th...

GHSA-XFHH-RX56-RXCR Path Traversal vulnerability that affects yard

Possible arbitrary path traversal and file access via yard server Impact A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in YARD = 0.9.19 when using yard server to serve documentation. This bug would allow unsanitized HTTP requests to access arbitrary files on the machine of a yard server host unde...

Can lead to millions of player accounts to be hijacked: EA Games account hijacking vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, overview In the past few weeks, Check Point Research and CyberInt common to confirm a series of vulnerabilities, and these vulnerabilities once an attacker might cause the world's second-largest game company EA Games to millions of players accounts being taken over. At the same time, these...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #2

Black Hat USA 2019 is still two months away, but it’s never too early for attendees to start planning their schedule. That’s why each week we’re recommending one session from the scores of research briefings and training courses that will be offered at the conference. Following our first pick las...

Prithvi - Report Generation Tool

Prithvi is a report generation tool specially made for Security Assessment which is free to use and easy to use. It will generate high quality vulnerability assessment report for security controls. It got various features and majorly made for security assessment. You can easily find security...

IRS Warns of New Tax Scams

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has issued a reminder urging consumers to look out for two new variations of tax-related phone and email scams. The phone scam involves pre-recorded messages threatening to suspend or cancel a victim’s Social Security number, and the email phishing scam involves a...

How Carbon Black is Prioritizing Living Off the Land Attacks

What are Living Off the Land LoL Attacks? In recent years, Living off the Land Binaries and Scripts LOLBas have become increasingly popular tools for cybercriminals. These types of attacks leverage native, signed, and often pre-installed applications in malicious ways that their creators never...

Best Cyber Security Certifications 2019

By Owais Sultan Today, Cyber security is one of the fastest growing industry. The increasing numbers of the data breaches and cyber attacks have likewise increased the need for cyber security professionals to take defensive measures against these threats. Organizations are spending more and more ...

POS Malware Found at 102 Checkers Restaurant Locations

The popular Checkers and Rally’s drive-through restaurant chain was attacked by Point of Sale POS malware impacting 15 percent of its stores across the U.S. Checkers is one of the largest drive-through restaurants in the U.S., operating in 28 states and headquartered in Tampa, Florida. The securi...

Hackers Infect 50,000 MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Servers with Rootkit Malware

Cyber Security researchers at Guardicore Labs today published a detailed report on a widespread cryptojacking campaign attacking Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers worldwide. Dubbed Nansh0u, the malicious campaign is reportedly being carried out by an APT-style Chinese hacking group who has...

Top 5 Last-Minute Memorial Day Deals at THN Store → Get 60% Extra OFF

Memorial Day has come and gone, but you still have time to land some of the best deals on some of the best apps and tech training bundles around. Whether you're looking for a world-class VPN or want to begin a career as a high-paid ethical hacker or IT pro, this list of ultra-discounted apps and...

The vulnerability of the GlobalProtect Agent VPN application, related to authentication procedures that are insufficient, allows a hacker to forge a VPN session and gain access under the user’s identity.

The vulnerability of the corporate VPN application GlobalProtect Agent is related to deficiencies in authentication procedures. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to forge a VPN session and gain access under the user’s identity...

Uncovering Linux based cyberattack using Azure Security Center

As more and more enterprises move to the cloud, they also bring their own set of security challenges. Today, almost half of Azure virtual machines VMs are running on Linux, and as the Linux server population grows, so are the attacks targeting them. As detection capabilities advance, attackers ar...

UK launches cyberstrategy with long-term relevance

Like most major global economies, the United Kingdom continues to place cybersecurity issues front and center. The National Cyber Security Strategy: 2016-2021 document—published by the UK Government and released nearly two years ago—describes the plan to make the UK secure and resilient in...

A week in security (May 6 – 12)

Last week on Labs, we discussed what to do when you discover a data breach, how 5G could impact cybersecurity strategy, the top six takeaways for user privacy, vulnerabilities in financial mobile apps that put consumers and businesses at risk, and in our series about vital infrastructure, we...