Mobile security—the 60 percent problem

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligence Security Association MISA guest blog series. To learn more about MISA, visit the MISA webpage. Off the top of your head, what percentage of endpoints in your organization are currently protected? Something in the 98 percent+ range? Most...

Secure Remote Endpoints from Vulnerabilities in Video Conferencing & Productivity Applications like Zoom

With millions working, learning and collaborating remotely due to COVID-19 challenges, there's an explosion of remote endpoints running Zoom and other collaboration and productivity applications such as Outlook, Teams, Webex, Slack, Office 365 and more. As remote endpoints are accessing...

Webinar — Autonomous Breach Protection: The New Security Paradigm Shift

Organizations today struggle with multi-product security stacks, that are expensive to purchase and maintain and also require a highly skilled security team to manually integrate and operate. The current Coronavirus crisis that has imposed a strict quarantine on organizations and security teams...

PT-2020-12159 · Chadha · Chadha Phpkb Standard Multi-Language

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language version 9 Description: The issue allows attackers to delete a ticket via a crafted request to the "admin/manage-tickets.php" endpoint. This is made possible by a CSRF weakness. Recommendations: For Chadha...

PT-2020-12171 · Chadha · Chadha Phpkb Standard Multi-Language

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language version 9 Description: The issue allows attackers to edit a department, given the id, via a crafted request to the "admin/manage-departments.php" endpoint. This is made possible by a CSRF weakness...

PT-2020-12166 · Chadha · Chadha Phpkb Standard Multi-Language

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language version 9 Description: The issue allows attackers to edit an article, given the id, via a crafted request to the "admin/edit-article.php" endpoint. This is made possible by a CSRF weakness. Recommendations...

2019: Looking Back at Malware

In 2019, attacker behavior evolved, becoming more evasive. The most common behaviors seen across all attack data—mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK™ Framework—were: Software Packing for Defense Evasion, Hidden Windows for Defense Evasion, Standard Application Layer Protocol for Command and Control C2,...

Symantec Endpoint Protection Multiple Issues

Summary Symantec has released updates to address issues that were discovered in the Symantec Endpoint Protection SEP, Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager SEPM, and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition SEP SBE products. At this time, Symantec is not aware of any exploitations or...

Download Guide — Advanced Threat Protection Beyond the AV

At a certain point, almost every organization reaches the conclusion that there is a need to move past just the standard AV and firewall stack in order to soundly protect their environment. The common practice in recent years is to gain extra protection through implementing either EDR\EPP solutio...

CVE-2020-9363

The Sophos AV parsing engine before 2020-01-14 allows virus-detection bypass via a crafted ZIP archive. This affects Endpoint Protection, Cloud Optix, Mobile, Intercept X Endpoint, Intercept X for Server, and Secure Web Gateway. NOTE: the vendor feels that this does not apply to endpoint-protecti...

CVE-2020-9363

The Sophos AV parsing engine before 2020-01-14 allows virus-detection bypass via a crafted ZIP archive. This affects Endpoint Protection, Cloud Optix, Mobile, Intercept X Endpoint, Intercept X for Server, and Secure Web Gateway. NOTE: the vendor feels that this does not apply to endpoint-protecti...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Sophos AV parsing engine before 2020-01-14 allows virus-detection bypass via a crafted ZIP archive. This affects Endpoint Protection, Cloud Optix, Mobile, Intercept X Endpoint, Intercept X for Server, and Secure Web Gateway. NOTE: the vendor feels that this does not apply to endpoint-protecti...

CVE-2020-9363

The Sophos AV parsing engine before 2020-01-14 allows virus-detection bypass via a crafted ZIP archive. This affects Endpoint Protection, Cloud Optix, Mobile, Intercept X Endpoint, Intercept X for Server, and Secure Web Gateway. NOTE: the vendor feels that this does not apply to endpoint-protecti...

ObliqueRAT: New RAT hits victims' endpoints via malicious documents

By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes malicious Microsoft Office documents maldocs to spread a remote access trojan RAT we're calling "ObliqueRAT." These maldocs use malicious macros to deliver the second stage RAT payload. This campaign appears to target...

Lenovo, HP, Dell Peripherals Face Unpatched Firmware Bugs

Fresh firmware vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi adapters, USB hubs, trackpads and cameras are putting millions of peripheral devices in danger of a range of cyberattacks, according to research from Eclypsium. TouchPad and TrackPoint firmware in Lenovo Laptops, HP Wide Vision FHD camera firmware in HP...

Why Our Customers Love VMware Carbon Black

As the cybersecurity world advances, organizations are starting to change their approach to security. More and more teams are moving to the cloud to maximize their endpoint protection and simplify their security stack. Using VMWare Carbon Black's Cloud platform, our customers are able to...

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-09963)

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager SEPM is a suite of enterprise-grade virus protection software from Symantec USA. The software protects against malicious attacks such as viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager suffers from an information disclosure vulnerabilit...

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager 14.x < 14.2 RU2 MP1 Multiple Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerabilities (SYMSA1505)

The version of Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager SEPM installed on the remote host is 14.x prior to 14.2 RU2 MP1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to read memory outside of the bounds of the memory...

Symantec Endpoint Protection Client 14.x < 14.2.5569.2100 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SYMSA1505)

The version of Symantec Endpoint Protection SEP Client installed on the remote host is 14.x prior to 14.2.5569.2100. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A privilege escalation vulnerability exists. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to compromise the softwa...

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-09962)

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager SEPM is a suite of enterprise-grade virus protection software from Symantec USA. The software protects against malicious attacks such as viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager suffers from an information disclosure vulnerabilit...