Neutralization reaction

Incident Response Guide PDF Despite there being no revolutionary changes to the cyberthreat landscape in the last few years, the growing informatization of business processes provides cybercriminals with numerous opportunities for attacks. They are focusing on targeted attacks and learning to use...

Warning: Two Dangerous Ransomware Are Back – Protect Your Computers

Ransomware has been around for a few years but has become an albatross around everyone's neck—from big businesses and financial institutions to hospitals and individuals worldwide—with cyber criminals making millions of dollars. In just past few months, we saw a scary strain of ransomware attacks...

Serverless, Real-time Malware Detection: BinaryAlert

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline where any file uploaded to an S3 bucket is immediately scanned with a configurable set of YARA rules. An alert will fire as soon as any match is found, giving an incident response team the ability to quickly contain the threat before it spread...

Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.x < 10.6.3-266 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SYM17-004)

According to its self-reported version number, the Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG running on the remote host is 10.x prior to 10.6.3-266. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when handling email attachments involving malformed o...

Updated libytnef packages fix security vulnerabilities

Several issues were discovered in libytnef, a library used to decode application/ms-tnef e-mail attachments. Multiple heap overflows, out-of-bound writes and reads, NULL pointer dereferences and infinite loops could be exploited by tricking a user into opening a maliciously crafted winmail.dat fi...

PT-2017-2152 · Microsoft · Office

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Office affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to the improper handling of data in Microsoft Office, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. The exploitation can occur when a...

Google Docs Phishing Campaign

US-CERT is aware of a phishing campaign that affected Google Docs users. The campaign used spoofed email addresses to target users with emails purporting to share a document for collaboration. Once the targeted users accepted invitations, they were encouraged to allow the phishing program access ...

Easter Holiday Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

As the Easter holiday approaches, US-CERT reminds users to stay aware of holiday scams and cyber campaigns, which may include: unsolicited shipping notifications that may actually be scams by attackers to solicit personal information phishing scams, electronic greeting cards that may contain...

Microsoft Outlook CVE-2017-0106 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Outlook is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of an affected system. Failed exploit attempts may result in a denial of service condition; this can result in the attacker gaining complete...

Cisco Email Security Appliance Filter Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the content scanning engine of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances ESA could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured message or content filters on the device. The vulnerability is due to incomplete input validation of email message...

CVE-2016-6462

A vulnerability in the email filtering functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass Advanced Malware Protection AMP filters that are configured for an affected device. This vulnerability affects all releases...

TrickBot Banking Trojan Adds New Browser Manipulation Tools

The TrickBot banking Trojan, a close relative to Dyre, has a growing target list and new browser manipulation techniques, experts at IBM X-Force said. “We expect to see it amplify infection campaigns and fraud attacks, sharpen its aim on business and corporate accounts,” wrote Limor Kessem,...

The vulnerability of the Microsoft Outlook email client, which allows a hacker to bypass virus or spam detection systems

The vulnerability of the Microsoft Outlook email client is related to the improper implementation of the requirements specified in RFC 2046. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass virus or spam detection systems by using specially crafted MIME data in email attachments...

CVE-2016-3366

Microsoft Outlook 2007 SP3, Outlook 2010 SP2, Outlook 2013 SP1, Outlook 2013 RT SP1, Outlook 2016, and Outlook 2016 for Mac do not properly implement RFC 2046, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus or spam detection via crafted MIME data in an e-mail attachment, aka "Microsoft Office...

MS16-107: Description of the security update for Outlook 2016: September 13, 2016

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MS16-108: Security update for Exchange Server: September 13, 2016

Resolves vulnerabilities in Exchange Server in which the most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution in some Oracle Outside In Libraries that are built into Exchange Server. This issue might occur if an attacker sends an email message with a specially crafted attachment t...

Open-Xchange: OX (Guard): Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Email Attachment

Summary Improper handling of email attachments by "OX Guard" causes a Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability inside the OX "Mail" module. Injected code will be executed when the victim opens the HTML attachment of a decrypted email by using the "Open in browser" link/button. Proof of Conce...

Security Advisory - Improper Input Validation Vulnerability in AnyMail

Huawei AnyMail has an improper input validation vulnerability when opening compressed email attachments. Successful exploit could cause AnyMail to crash and exit. Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-06099 This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE ID: CVE-2016-6826...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID24199: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 11, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 48436 First Published: 2016 August 11 12:48 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID24199 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID24210: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 10, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 48431 First Published: 2016 August 10 15:26 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID24210 may contain the following files: Name |...