3 Ways to Hunt for the ZeroLogon Vulnerability on Your Windows Servers

Vulnerability assessment and patch management can be painful time-consuming processes. From the Security team looking at vulnerability reports and prioritizing the riskiest ones for their environment to the IT or Infrastructure team determining exactly which machines need to be patched and...

Querying Windows Event Logs for Faster Investigation and Response

With this week’s release on the VMware Carbon Black Cloud, users can now remotely inspect Windows devices’ event logs to pull back information that could be helpful during an investigation or response scenario. This new capability comes as part of an update to the Live Query functionality provide...

DeepBlueCLI - a PowerShell Module for Threat Hunting via Windows Event Logs

DeepBlueCLI - a PowerShell Module for Threat Hunting via Windows Event Logs Eric Conrad, Backshore Communications, LLC deepblue at backshore dot net Twitter: @ericconrad http://ericconrad.com Sample evtx files are in the .\evtx directory Usage: .\DeepBlue.ps1 See the Set-ExecutionPolicy Readme if...

Windows TCPIP Finger Command - C2 Channel and Bypassing Security Software

Title: Windows TCPIP Finger Command - C2 Channel and Bypassing Security Software Author: John Page aka hyp3rlinx Date: 2020-09-16 Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WindowsTCPIPFingerCommandC2ChannelandBypassingSecuritySoftware.txt...

Target Device running on VMware going into hung state with Event - Too many retries Initiate reconnect

Please consider below scenarios and symptoms: VMware6.7 hosts the Target devices. VMXNet3 is attached to the Target devices. Intermittently the Target Devices go into a hung state. Review of the Wireshark trace shows that the Target Device is constantly reconnecting with the Citrix Provisioning...

Audix - A PowerShell Tool To Quickly Configure The Windows Event Audit Policies For Security Monitoring

Audix will allow for the SIMPLE configuration of Windows Event Audit Policies. Window's Audit Policies are restricted by default. This means that for Incident Responders, Blue Teamers, CISO's & people looking to monitor their environment through use of Windows Event Logs, must configure the audit...

"Description cannot be found" error in event logs in Event Viewer in Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2012

"Description cannot be found" error in event logs in Event Viewer in Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2012 Introduction This article describes an issue in which the "Description cannot be found" error message is displayed in the event logs in Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 20...

OSSEM - Open Source Security Events Metadata

The Open Source Security Events Metadata OSSEM is a community-led project that focuses primarily on the documentation and standardization of security event logs from diverse data sources and operating systems. Security events are documented in a dictionary format and can be used as a reference fo...

Storefront | Unable To Join Secondary Storefront Server To Server Group.

ERROR: Unable to join server in existing server group. Add server failed - Add of server XYZ to server group failed. In event logs we could see 'access is denied' exception while running the command : 'Add-DSCertificateToDSStore'...

Storefront 3.12 CU5 Error: Propagation failed on one or more Servers

PROBLEM: When administrator launches Storefront Management Console and attempts to perform "Propagate Changes" on Servers , the process fails with the following error: Error: Propagation failed on one or more Servers Event logs on Primary Server shows the following event: Event ID 31 An error has...

Our Experiences Participating in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere Bounty Program | McAfee Blogs

CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part II Christiaan Beek · FEB 20, 2020 In our first article we discussed the growing pattern of targeted ransomware attacks where the first infection stage is often an info-stealer kind of malware used to gain credentials/access to...

CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks - Part II | McAfee Blogs

CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part II Christiaan Beek · FEB 20, 2020 In our first article we discussed the growing pattern of targeted ransomware attacks where the first infection stage is often an info-stealer kind of malware used to gain credentials/access to...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: SatanCryptor Ransomware

In early January 2020, a new ransomware named ‘SatanCryptor’ was discovered. After it performs file encryption, it will drop a ransom note named “ SATAN CRYPTOR .hta” and append ‘.satan’ as a file extension to the encrypted files. In addition, SatanCryptor will delete itself after the execution t...

Attack Monitor - Endpoint Detection And Malware Analysis Software

Attack Monitor is Python application written to enhance security monitoring capabilites of Windows 7/2008 and all later versions workstations/servers and to automate dynamic analysis of malware. Current modes mutually exclusive: Endpoint detection ED Malware analysis on dedicated Virtual Machine...

DetectionLab - Vagrant And Packer Scripts To Build A Lab Environment Complete With Security Tooling And Logging Best Practices

DetectionLab is tested weekly on Saturdays via a scheduled CircleCI workflow to ensure that builds are passing. Purpose This lab has been designed with defenders in mind. Its primary purpose is to allow the user to quickly build a Windows domain that comes pre-loaded with security tooling and som...

SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server 8.3.52 - (Kiwi Syslog Server) Unquoted Service Path Vulnerability

Exploit Title: SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server 8.3.52 - 'Kiwi Syslog Server' Unquoted Service Path Exploit Author: Carlos A Garcia R Vendor Homepage: https://www.kiwisyslog.com/ Software Link: https://www.kiwisyslog.com/downloads Version: 8.3.52 Tested on: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3...

SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server 8.3.52 - 'Kiwi Syslog Server' Unquoted Service Path

Exploit Title: SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server 8.3.52 - 'Kiwi Syslog Server' Unquoted Service Path Date: 2019-11-08 Exploit Author: Carlos A Garcia R Vendor Homepage: https://www.kiwisyslog.com/ Software Link: https://www.kiwisyslog.com/downloads Version: 8.3.52 Tested on: Windows XP Professional...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.38 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.38 includes updates and new features for AssetView, Web Application Firewall, and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. AssetView Azure Instance State search token and Dynamic Tag Support – A new search token "azure.vm.state" is added...

Ransomware or Wiper? LockerGoga Straddles the Line

Executive Summary Ransomware attacks have been in the news with increased frequency over the past few years. This type of malware can be extremely disruptive and even cause operational impacts in critical systems that may be infected. LockerGoga is yet another example of this sort of malware. It ...

Information Disclosure

Ansible is vulnerable to information disclosure. On Windows platforms, passwords are logged in plaintext in the event logs when PowerShell ScriptBlock and Module logging are enabled. A local user with administrator privileges will be able to view these logs and discover plaintext passwords...