CVE-2019-2656

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.2.28 and prior to 6.0.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox...

CVE-2019-2656

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 5.2.28 and prior to 6.0.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox...

CVE-2019-2619

Vulnerability in the Portable Clusterware component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.1 and 18c. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker having Grid Infrastructure User privilege with logon to the infrastructure...

Partner Perspectives: Blending Analytics with Endpoint Detection and Response Better Defends the Modern Worker

Ryan Stolte is the co-founder and CTO for Bay Dynamics. There are clearly many reasons why Endpoint Detection and Response EDR has materialized into such a hotbed of interest, investment and emerging best practices - endpoint security must continually evolve within the context of threats and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: atomic-reactor-1.6.36.1-3.fc29

Simple Python tool with command line interface for building Docker images. It contains a lot of helpful functions which you would probably implement if you started hooking Docker into your infrastructure...

Weather Channel Knocked Off-Air in Dangerous Precedent

On Thursday, The Weather Channel – a trusted cable network source of meteorological data across the U.S. – was knocked off the air by what it said was a “malicious software attack” on its network. The Weather Channel hack – not to be confused with the Weather Channel’s own hacks – affected its li...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: atomic-reactor-1.6.36.1-3.fc28

Simple Python tool with command line interface for building Docker images. It contains a lot of helpful functions which you would probably implement if you started hooking Docker into your infrastructure...

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2.x < 5.2.28 / 6.0.x < 6.0.6 (Apr 2019 CPU)

The version of Oracle VM VirtualBox running on the remote host is 5.2.x prior to 5.2.28 or 6.0.x prior to 6.0.6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as noted in the April 2019 Critical Patch Update advisory : - Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Core component of Oracl...

ICSJWG Spring Meeting April 23–25

The Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group ICSJWG—a collaborative and coordinating body operating under the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council framework—will hold the 2019 ICSJWG Spring Meeting in Kansas City, MO, April 23–25, 2019. ICSJWG facilitates information sharing...

More on the Triton Malware

FireEye is releasing much more information about the Triton malware that attacks critical infrastructure. It has been discovered in more places. This is also a good -- but older -- article on Triton. We don't know who wrote it. Initial speculation was Iran; more recent speculation is Russia. Both...

Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Ukraine Government and Military; Infrastructure Reveals Potential Link to So-Called Luhansk People's Republic

In early 2019, FireEye Threat Intelligence identified a spear phishing email targeting government entities in Ukraine. The spear phishing email included a malicious LNK file with PowerShell script to download the second-stage payload from the command and control C&C server. The email was received...

Why Asset Management is so important for Vulnerability Management and Infrastructure Security?

When people ask me how should they start building Vulnerability Management process in their organization well, sometimes it happens, I advice them to create an effective Asset Management process first. Because it's the foundation of the whole Infrastructure Security. The term "Asset Management" h...

North Korea's Hidden Cobra Strikes U.S. Targets with HOPLIGHT

A never-before-seen spyware variant called HOPLIGHT is targeting U.S. companies and government agencies in active attacks, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In an advisory this week, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team US-CERT said that there are nine differen...

Encrypted Messaging Project "Matrix" Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack

Matrix—the organization behind an open source project that offers a protocol for secure and decentralized real-time communication—has suffered a massive cyber attack after unknown attackers gained access to the servers hosting its official website and data. Hackers defaced Matrix's website, and...

The Ping is the Thing: Popular HTML5 Feature Used to Trick Chinese Mobile Users into Joining Latest DDoS Attack

DDoS attacks have always been a major threat to network infrastructure and web applications. Attackers are always creating new ways to exploit legitimate services for malicious purposes, forcing us to constantly research DDoS attacks in our CDN to build advanced mitigations. We recently...

Do High Vanity Bitrates Choke Your Live OTT Service Out of the Gate?

Studies show that video consumption demand is growing faster than capacity. While capacity overhead does exist, current trends suggest that we'll see more bottlenecking on last-hop connectivity, especially with regionally targeted content. By pushing "vanity bitrates" -- those topmost speeds that...

Gustuff banking botnet targets Australia

Vitor Ventura authored this post. Executive summary Cisco Talos has uncovered a new Android-based campaign targeting Australian financial institutions. As the investigation progressed, Talos came to understand that this campaign was associated with the "ChristinaMorrow" text message spam scam...

TRITON Actor TTP Profile, Custom Attack Tools, Detections, and ATT&CK Mapping

Overview FireEye can now confirm that we have uncovered and are responding to an additional intrusion by the attacker behind TRITON at a different critical infrastructure facility. In December 2017, FireEye publicly released our first analysis on the TRITON attack where malicious actors used the...

ICSA-19-099-02 Siemens Spectrum Power 4.7

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 10.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Siemens Equipment: Spectrum Power 4.7 Vulnerability: Command Injection 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability in versions of Spectrum Power 4 using the user-specific...

Adobe Releases Security Updates

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Ado...