Partner Perspectives: ThreatConnect and Carbon Black: Incorporating Threat Intel for Quicker Incident Response

Megan Horner is the Director of Product Marketing for ThreatConnect. When it comes to incident response, there’s typically a focus on three main stages: investigation, containment, and remediation. Moving from one stage to the next as efficiently as possible is critical to expediting response...

Clever Tool Uses Apple’s Videogame Logic Engine to Protect Macs

A new Mac security service called GamePlan uses a system's own indicators, and some videogame magic, to keep a lookout...

Threat Roundup for Feb. 15 to Feb. 22

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 15 and Feb. 22. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

TROMMEL - Sift Through Embedded Device Files To Identify Potential Vulnerable Indicators

TROMMEL sifts through embedded device files to identify potential vulnerable indicators. TROMMEL identifies the following indicators related to: Secure Shell SSH key files Secure Socket Layer SSL key files Internet Protocol IP addresses Uniform Resource Locator URL email addresses shell scripts w...

Threat Roundup for Jan. 25 to Feb. 1

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Jan. 25 and Feb. 01. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

Threat Roundup for Jan. 18 to Jan. 25

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Jan. 18 and Jan. 25. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

Improved Fallout EK comes back after short hiatus

Edit 2019-01-24 Fallout EK introduces a new dropper to facilitate the final payload retrieval. This update replaces the plain MZ we saw for a little while. -- After a short hiatus in early January, the Fallout exploit kit is back in business again with some new features for the new year. During i...

CVE-2018-15466

A vulnerability in the Graphite web interface of the Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF of Cisco Policy Suite CPS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access the Graphite web interface. The attacker would need to have access to the internal VLAN where CPS is deployed. The...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in the Graphite web interface of the Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF of Cisco Policy Suite CPS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access the Graphite web interface. The attacker would need to have access to the internal VLAN where CPS is deployed. The...

CVE-2018-15466 Cisco Policy Suite Graphite Unauthenticated Read-Only Access Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Graphite web interface of the Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF of Cisco Policy Suite CPS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access the Graphite web interface. The attacker would need to have access to the internal VLAN where CPS is deployed. The...

Pylocky Unlocked: Cisco Talos releases PyLocky ransomware decryptor

This tool was developed by Mike Bautista. PyLocky is a family of ransomware written in Python that attempts to masquerade as a Locky variant. This ransomware will encrypt all files on a victim machine before demanding that the user pay a ransom to gain access to their decrypted files. To combat...

Cisco Policy Suite Access Control Error Vulnerability

Cisco Policy Suite CPS is the United States Cisco Cisco company's set of next-generation policy management solutions. The program provides user-based business rules, applications and real-time management of network resources and other functions. policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF is one of t...

Cisco Policy Suite Graphite Unauthenticated Read-Only Access Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Graphite web interface of the Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF of Cisco Policy Suite CPS could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access the Graphite web interface. The attacker would need to have access to the internal VLAN where CPS is deployed. The...

MISP - Malware Information Sharing Platform and Threat Sharing

The objective of MISP is to foster the sharing of structured information within the security community and abroad. MISP provides functionalities to support the exchange of information but also the consumption of the information by Network Intrusion Detection System NIDS, LIDS but also log analysi...

Threat Roundup for Dec. 14 to Dec. 21

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Dec. 14 and Dec. 21. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

Threat Roundup for Dec. 7 to Dec. 14

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Dec. 07 and Dec. 14. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

The Origin of the Term Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)

I am an historian. I practice digital security, but I earned a bachelor's of science degree in history from the United States Air Force Academy. 1 Historians create products by analyzing artifacts, among which the most significant is the written word. In my last post, I talked about IOCs, or...

HASSH - A Network Fingerprinting Standard Which Can Be Used To Identify Specific Client And Server SSH Implementations

"HASSH" is a network fingerprinting standard which can be used to identify specific Client and Server SSH implementations. The fingerprints can be easily stored, searched and shared in the form of an MD5 fingerprint. What can HASSH help with: Use in highly controlled, well understood environments...

Managing the Risk of IT-OT Convergence

A few years ago, it wasn’t easy getting executives on board with the concept of operational technology OT security. Having finally come around to acknowledging the need for information technology IT security, boards and C-suite executives at industrial enterprises were then faced with the...

sqlserver is malware

The sqlserver package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real security conce...