TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 17, 2017

If you conduct a search on the Web for the number of languages spoken around the world, you’ll see numbers ranging anywhere from 6,000-7,000. I figure I’m doing okay since I can speak English and Spanish, sign the English alphabet, recite the Greek alphabet, and read music. There are roughly over...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Fusion Middleware BI Publisher (CNVD-2017-17501)

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a comprehensive middleware product family consisting of SOA and middleware products.BI Publisher is one of the reporting components. Oracle BI Publisher version 11.1.1.7.0 contains a security vulnerability in the implementation of the Web Server component, which can be...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Fusion Middleware BI Publisher (CNVD-2017-17500)

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a comprehensive middleware product family consisting of SOA and middleware products.BI Publisher is one of the reporting components. Oracle BI Publisher version 11.1.1.7.0 contains a security vulnerability in the implementation of the Web Server component, which can be...

PyREBox, a Python Scriptable Reverse Engineering Sandbox

This post was authored by Xabier Ugarte PedreroIn Talos, we are continuously trying to improve our research and threat intelligence capabilities. As a consequence, we not only leverage standard tools for analysis, but we also focus our efforts on innovation, developing our own technology to...

Security for a Rapidly Changing World: Why XGen™ is Our Formula for Success

Right now, we’re living through a period of almost unprecedented technological change. It can be easy sometimes to get caught up in the excitement of this change and miss the bigger picture; the wider themes that tie our past to our future. That’s why at Trend Micro we’re proud to have been able ...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 3, 2017

It has been quoted by Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and others that insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” I could say that in our world of cyber security, despite all the headlines about data breaches and ransomware, there is no “insanity.”...

Thousands of Security Experts Work Together to Collectively Combat Petya / NotPetya Ransomware Attack

On Tuesday, Carbon Black’s community of security experts began working together with Carbon Black Threat Research to rapidly analyze the new ransomware family that was hitting organizations from Russia to Britain. More than 100 customers and partners communicated IOCs as the attack hit. “I heard...

Microsoft Adding Artificial-Intelligence Based Advanced Antivirus to Windows 10

Microsoft is making every effort to make its Windows operating system more secure and advanced than ever before by beefing up its security practices and hardening it against hackers and cyber attacks in its next release. With the launch of its Windows 10 Creator Update also known as RedStone 3,...

Akamai Launches New Solution to Help Enterprise Security Teams Address the Impact of Malware, Ransomware, and DNS-based Data Exfiltration

Today, we are proud to introduce Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector ETP. ETP is designed to provide customers quick-to-deploy and easy-to-manage cloud-based protection against the impact of complex, targeted threats such malware, ransomware, phishing, and DNS‑based data exfiltration. One...

New EU Privacy Laws Will Complicate B2B Data Sharing

NEW YORK – United States companies doing business abroad are grumbling over new European privacy laws set to take effect in less than one year. The EU privacy rules are far more stringent than U.S. laws, and are meant to give consumers the upper hand when it comes to controlling what data is stor...

Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App, Says It Was Used By Terrorists

Russia has threatened to ban Telegram end-to-end encrypted messaging app, after Pavel Durov, its founder, refused to sign up to the country's new data protection laws. Russian intelligence service, the FSB, said on Monday that the terrorists that killed 15 people in Saint Petersburg in April had...

Open Source OSINT Assistant: datasploit

Open Source OSINT Assistant Utilizing various Open Source Intelligence OSINT tools DataSploit correlates the raw data captured and gives the user, all the relevant information about the domain / email / phone number / person, etc. It allows you to collect relevant information about a target which...

NSA Advocates Data Sharing Framework

NEW YORK–The economics of cybersecurity are skewed in favor of attackers, who invest once and can launch thousands of attacks with a piece of malware or exploit kit. That’s why Neal Ziring, technical director for the NSA’s Capabilities Directorate, wants to flip the financial equation on bad guys...

Siemens XHQ Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

XHQ Production Operations Intelligence is Siemens Energy's flagship solution, widely deployed by the world's largest oil & gas and chemical companies. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Siemens XHQ 4 and XHQ 5. It allows an authenticated remote user with low privileges to gain read...

NSA Opens Github Account — Lists 32 Projects Developed by the Agency

The National Security Agency NSA — the United States intelligence agency which is known for its secrecy and working in the dark — has finally joined GitHub and launched an official GitHub page. The NSA employs genius-level coders and brightest mathematicians, who continually work to break codes,...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of June 12, 2017

“What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?” This was the question posed to Steve Martin’s character C.D. Bales in the 1987 movie Roxanne. In a modern take of Edmond Rostand's 1897 verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, the movie centers around C.D.’s attempt to win the love of a woman whi...

Data vs. Analysis in Counterterrorism

This article argues that Britain's counterterrorism problem isn't lack of data, it's lack of analysis...

Deep dive in Lexmark Perceptive Document Filters Exploitation

This post authored by Marcin Noga with contributions from Nick BiasiniIntroductionTalos discovers and releases software vulnerabilities on a regular basis. We don't always publish a deep technical analysis of how the vulnerability was discovered or its potential impact. This blog will cover these...

Live Threat-Driven Vulnerability Prioritization

We often hear that security teams are overwhelmed by the number of vulnerabilities in their environments: every day they are finding more than they can fix. It doesnt help when rating schemes used for prioritization, like the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS, dont really work at scale or...

FIRST and Beyond – a History of Elevating Research through Partnerships

At the FIRST conference in San Juan, Trend Micro’s Forward-looking Threat Research team will be presenting four sessions on a wide range of topics. These sessions will demonstrate a sliver of the research going on at Trend Micro, and some of the partnerships that elevate the research to benefit t...