Open Source Deception Framework: DejaVU

Deception techniques if deployed well can be very effective for organizations to improve network defense and can be a useful arsenal for blue teams to detect attacks at very early stage of cyber kill chain. But the challenge we have seen is deploying, managing and administering decoys across larg...

Podcast: The Evolution of Deception Technology

Deception technology is an emerging category of cyber defense that is particularly useful when it comes to IoT devices, SCADA systems and medical devices. Threatpost talks to Tony Cole, CTO of Attivo Networks, about how deception technology has evolved, the challenges behind and opportunities of...

Suppressing the Adversary via Threat Hunt Teams

What a brave new world. Global cyber insurgencies continue unabated. Decreasing dwell time is imperative in 2018. In order to achieve this goal, we must embrace the hunt. Every organization should stand up a threat hunt team. The team must be multidisciplinary with experience in e-forensics and...

Information leakage vulnerability in NFC module of multiple Huawei phones

Huawei Mate 9 Pro is a smartphone from Huawei Huawei. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the NFC module of multiple Huawei phones, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause partial information disclosure by tricking the user into performing a specific action and tampering with...

Google Chrome URL Spoofing Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-03789)

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google Inc. in the United States. A URL spoofing vulnerability exists in Google Chrome. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to spoof URLs by tricking users into visiting a specially crafted website...

Gone Phishing For The Holidays

Written by Or Katz and Amiram Cohen Overview: While our team, Akamai's Enterprise Threat Protector Security Research Team, monitored internet traffic throughout the 2017 holiday season, we spotted a wide-spread phishing campaign targeting users through an advertising tactic. During the six week...

Security update for phpMyAdmin (important)

This update for phpMyAdmin to version 4.7.7 fixes a security issue and bugs. The following vulnerability was fixed: - By deceiving a user to click on a crafted URL, it was possible to perform harmful database operations bsc1074066, PMASA-2017-09 This update also contains all upstream improvements...

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:3448-1 Security update for phpMyAdmin

This update for phpMyAdmin to version 4.7.7 fixes a security issue and bugs. The following vulnerability was fixed: - By deceiving a user to click on a crafted URL, it was possible to perform harmful database operations bsc1074066, PMASA-2017-09 This update also contains all upstream improvements...

December 18, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Cats” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! December 18, 2017 - Headlines Our top 7 cyber security predictions for 2018 - C...

CVE-2017-17436

An issue was discovered in the software on Vaultek Gun Safe VT20i products. There is no encryption of the session between the Android application and the safe. The website and marketing materials advertise that this communication channel is encrypted with "Highest Level Bluetooth Encryption" and...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-3157

By exploiting the way Apache OpenOffice before 4.1.4 renders embedded objects, an attacker could craft a document that allows reading in a file from the user's filesystem. Information could be retrieved by the attacker by, e.g., using hidden sections to store the information, tricking the user in...

Bad romance: catphishing explained

You've heard or read about some variant of this story before: Girl meets Boy on a dating website. Girl falls in love. Boy claims he does, too. Girl is excited to meet Boy soon. But at the last minute, Girl finds out that Boy 1 had an accident and broke a hip; 2 has a very sick relative he needs t...

Phony WhatsApp used Unicode to slip under Google’s radar

After a troubling week for Google not so long ago, the company is under the spotlight once more for missing another app that, after further investigations by several members of Reddit, was found laden with adware. This app, which was called "Update WhatsApp Messenger," used the logo and developer...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Taking Healthcare Threat Protection to the Next Level with HITRUST

Healthcare organizations HCOs worldwide continue to be on the receiving end of cyber-attacks. But if we work together we have both the tools and motivation to turn this around. That’s why Trend Micro has been a long-time partner and advocate of the great work HITRUST is doing to help improve...

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Discourse: CSRF-tokens on pages without no-cache headers, resulting in ATO when using CloudFlare proxy (Web Cache Deception)

Hi, I noticed this issue on one of your clients which was using CloudFlare in front of their Discourse. This is not affecting try.discourse.org but the same underlying issue can be seen there as well even though it's not exploitable on that specific domain. The TL;DR of issue is basically:...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-28003)

Microsoft Internet Explorer is a popular WEB browser. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability by presenting a special WEB page and tricking a user into visiting it, which could crash the application or...

HoneypotBuster - Microsoft PowerShell Module to Find HoneyPots and HoneyTokens in the Network

Microsoft PowerShell module designed for red teams that can be used to find honeypots and honeytokens in the network or at the host. CodeExecution Execute code on a target machine using Import-Module. Invoke-HoneypotBuster HoneypotBuster is a tool designed to spot Honey Tokens, Honey Bread Crumbs...

WordPress FTP/SSH Forms Function Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in the WordPress FTP/SSH forms feature. The vulnerability can be used to...