Introducing WhiteBear

As a part of our Kaspersky APT Intelligence Reporting subscription, customers received an update in mid-February 2017 on some interesting APT activity that we called WhiteBear. Much of the contents of that report are reproduced here. WhiteBear is a parallel project or second stage of the Skipper...

Siemens Fixes Session Hijacking Bug in LOGO!, Warns of Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Administrators who have Siemens’ LOGO! logic module deployed in automation setups are being urged to update its firmware. The German industrial manufacturing giant pushed out an update for its LOGO! 8 BM devices Wednesday morning to fix a vulnerability CVE-2017-12734 that could let an attacker...

Siemens LOGO! (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Siemens Equipment: LOGO! Vulnerabilities: Insufficiently Protected Credentials, Man-in-the-Middle 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled...

Extend Protection to VMWare Cloud on AWS with Trend Micro™ Deep Security™

On August 28th at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, VMware announced initial availability for their unique offering called 'VMware Cloud on AWS' allowing customers to run VMware workloads on the AWS cloud. This means customers can take advantage of agile cloud infrastructure all the while maintaining...

Fraudulent Donations Lead to Disbanding of Hutchins Legal Defense Fund

A legal defense fund established to ease Marcus Hutchins’ attorney costs has been disbanded after a sizable number of fraudulent donations were discovered. Hutchins, known as Malware Tech, is facing six counts for his alleged involvement in creating and distributing the Kronos banking malware. Th...

How do I Integrate XenMobile and SkyCure

Skycure for Citrix XenMobile extends your organization’s mobile security with next-generationMobile Threat Defensecapabilities: proactively detect and automatically remediate known and unknown threats, vulnerabilities and active attacks across all mobile attack vectors. Integrate Skycure with...

Survival of the fastest: evolving defenders with broad security automation

If youve read the news at all lately, you know that we're having some struggles with information security. Everything from elections to hospitals to Westeros is considered a target, and adversaries continue to learn and innovate--often faster than the defense can respond. Its not that they have...

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method

A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association. Th...

Corner-Case Bug Potentially Affecting 10 Cb Response Customers

On Thursday, August 10, Carbon Black discovered a corner-case bug potentially affecting 10 Cb Response customers. The bug was introduced in April 2017 and requires a set of specific conditions to occur in order to be triggered. We have remediated the bug, proactively notified the 10 potentially...

Trend Micro Identified as a Representative Vendor for its Protection Capabilities For Cloud Workloads

We are proud to be included in this year’s Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms report, which included 24 security leaders in Cloud Workload Protection solutions. Trend Micro was identified with 16 out of 21 capabilities listed by Gartner. Trend Micro delivers unique serve...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Able to view Backend Database dur to improper authentication

Vulnerable domain: https://█████████ Endpoint: https://█████████/schema/columns.byTable.html Description: When you visit the above endpoint you will get all the backend database. Its a critical vulnerability and should be patch as soon as possible. Let me know if you want any more details. FInd t...

More on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process

Richard Ledgett -- a former Deputy Director of the NSA -- argues against the US government disclosing all vulnerabilities: Proponents argue that this would allow patches to be developed, which in turn would help ensure that networks are secure. On its face, this argument might seem to make sense ...

The MSRC 2017 list of “Top 100” security researchers

Security researchers play an essential role in Microsoft’s security strategy and are key to community-based defense. To show our appreciation for their hard work and partnership, each year at BlackHat North America, the Microsoft Security Response Center highlights contributions of these...

Revoke-Obfuscation: PowerShell Obfuscation Detection Using Science

Many attackers continue to leverage PowerShell as a part of their malware ecosystem, mostly delivered and executed by malicious binaries and documents. Of malware that uses PowerShell, the most prevalent use is the garden-variety stager: an executable or document macro that launches PowerShell to...

Facebook Security Boss: Empathy, Inclusion Must Come to Security

LAS VEGAS—Twenty years of Black Hat seemed to be the appropriate marker in time for Alex Stamos to remind security professionals of their unique position to affect change, not only in technology and business, but also in geopolitics and human rights. Facebook’s chief security officer delivered th...

Academia's Role in Security Skills Gap Examined

LAS VEGAS—For a long time, there’s been a chorus from employers about the lacked of skilled security professionals to fill available openings. And while it would not be an illogical leap to think universities are adequately preparing tomorrow’s security admins and CISOs, quite the opposite may be...

July 25, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Henry Ford” 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! July 25, 2017 - Headlines UK gov wants teens to practice cybersecurity in their...

Did you see what the Black Hat newsletter said about Trend Micro?

This year’s Black Hat® conference is right around the corner. Now, amazingly, in its 20th year, Black Hat is one of the world’s top gathering of information security professionals. Friends in the industry refer to this as “Security Summer Camp” and it’s true, between the training, briefings,...

Windows Defender Antivirus cloud protection service: Advanced real-time defense against never-before-seen malware

For cybercriminals, speed is the name of the game. It takes newly released malware an average of just four hours to achieve its goal—steal financial information, extort money, or cause widespread damage. In a recent report, the Federal Trade Commission FTC said that cybercriminals will use hacked...

Tomato-Plant Security

I have a soft spot for interesting biological security measures, especially by plants. I've used them as examples in several of my books. Here's a new one: when tomato plants are attacked by caterpillars, they release a chemical that turns the caterpillars on each other: It's common for...