Ghosts in the Endpoint

We would like to introduce the first of our “Ghosts in the Endpoint” series, a report prepared by FireEye Labs that documents malicious software not being detected in the wild by traditional signature-based detections. In this study, all the families identified are samples from VirusTotal VT with...

Ghosts in the Endpoint

We would like to introduce the first of our “Ghosts in the Endpoint” series, a report prepared by FireEye Labs that documents malicious software not being detected in the wild by traditional signature-based detections. In this study, all the families identified are samples from VirusTotal VT with...

community.fireeye.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://community.fireeye.com/community/training/tags?tags=%22%3E%3C/option%3E%3C%20/select%3E%3Cbody/onpageshow=prompt%28%29%3E%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=prompt%28/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%29%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:|...

POS Malware Tool "Treasurehunt' Targets Small US-Based Banks, Retailers

As more US companies snuff out point of sale malware by deploying chip-and-PIN bankcard technology, attackers are rushing to exploit existing magnetic strip card systems still vulnerable to malware. A group of hackers that go by the name Bears Inc. are behind the latest barrage of attacks with a...

TREASUREHUNT: A Custom POS Malware Tool

Since early 2015, FireEye Threat Intelligence has observed the significant growth of point-of-sale POS malware families in underground cyber crime forums. POS malware refers to malicious software that extracts payment card information from memory and usually uploads that data to a command and...

FireEye - Malware Input Processor (uid=mip) Privilege Escalation

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=670 The mip user is already quite privileged, capable of accessing sensitive network data. However, as the child process has supplementary gid contents, there is a very simple...

FireEye - Malware Input Processor Privilege Escalation

FireEye - Malware Input Processor Privilege Escalation Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=670 The mip user is already quite privileged, capable of accessing sensitive network data. However, as the child process has supplementary gid contents, there is a very simple...

FireEye - Malware Input Processor Privilege Escalation

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=670 The mip user is already quite privileged, capable of accessing sensitive network data. However, as the child process has supplementary gid contents, there is a very simple privilege escalation to root. This is because the snort...

Stop Scanning My Macro

FireEye Labs detected an interesting evasion strategy in two recent, large Dridex campaigns. These campaigns changed the attachment file-type and location of malicious logic in an attempt to avoid scanners. Overview Both campaigns used an invoice theme and came from a wide variety of sending...

Stop Scanning My Macro

FireEye Labs detected an interesting evasion strategy in two recent, large Dridex campaigns. These campaigns changed the attachment file-type and location of malicious logic in an attempt to avoid scanners. Overview Both campaigns used an invoice theme and came from a wide variety of sending...

Relational Learning Tutorial

At FireEye, we apply machine learning techniques to a variety of security problems. Malware detection and categorization is a great use of the technology, and we believe that it can also play a role in security challenges that extend beyond malware. In one such R&D effort, the Innovation & Custom...

FireEye Operating System Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote host is running a version of FireEye Operating System FEOS that is missing a vendor-supplied security patch. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists in the Virtual Execution Engine VXE during the handling of file names that were previously flagged for t...

Microsoft Releases Update for EMET

US-CERT is aware of a vulnerability in Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET versions prior to 5.5. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to bypass or disable EMET to take control of an affected system. US-CERT recommends users and administrators visit the...

Maimed Ramnit Still Lurking in the Shadow

Newspapers have the ability to do more than simply keep us current with worldly affairs; we can use them to squash bugs! Yet, as we move from waiting on the newspaper delivery boy to reading breaking news on ePapers, we lose the subtle art of bug squashing. Instead, we end up exposing ourselves t...

FLARE Script Series: flare-dbg Plug-ins

Introduction This post continues the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE script series. In this post, we continue to discuss the flare-dbg project. If you haven’t read my first post on using flare-dbg to automate string decoding, be sure to check it out! We created the flare-dbg Pytho...

Thousands of App Store games and App Store security vulnerability susceptible to hacker attacks-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A leading network security company released research report, Apple's App Store has more than 1 0 0 0 app there is a security vulnerability, susceptible to hack attacks. A product called JSPatch used to help developers modify the application software, a security vulnerability exists, which makes i...

Dridex Botnet Resumes Spam Operations After the Holidays

FireEye Labs observed that Dridex operators were active during the holiday season. However, during the post-Christmas and New Year weeks, we observed a slowdown in their spam campaigns. Interestingly, their breaks were short. Over the past few weeks they have resumed operations and are building...

Hot or Not? The Benefits and Risks of iOS Remote Hot Patching

Introduction Apple has made a significant effort to build and maintain a healthy and clean app ecosystem. The essential contributing component to this status quo is the App Store, which is protected by a thorough vetting process that scrutinizes all submitted applications. While the process is...

Holiday Season 2015 Email Campaign

The holiday season is a time when many people go on vacation or at least get much-needed downtime from work, but that is not always the case with attackers. To better understand the threats we face during “the most wonderful time of the year,” FireEye Labs has been collecting data on the most...

SlemBunk Part II: Prolonged Attack Chain and Better-Organized Campaign

Introduction Our follow-up investigation of a nasty Android banking malware we identified at the tail end of last year has not only revealed that the trojan is more persistent than we initially realized – thus making for a much more dangerous threat – but that it is also being used as part of an...