Protecting customers and evaluating risk

Today, Microsoft triaged a large release of exploits made publicly available by Shadow Brokers. Understandingly, customers have expressed concerns around the risk this disclosure potentially creates. Our engineers have investigated the disclosed exploits, and most of the exploits are already...

Protecting customers and evaluating risk

Today, Microsoft triaged a large release of exploits made publicly available by Shadow Brokers. Understandingly, customers have expressed concerns around the risk this disclosure potentially creates. Our engineers have investigated the disclosed exploits, and most of the exploits are already...

Why You Need a Database Audit Trail

Your ability to answer very detailed questions about what’s going on in your organization’s databases can make or break a compliance audit or security investigation. Aside from the obvious need for this information in the event of a breach, it’s also important because government, financial, and...

Details Around Romanian Phishing Kit Creator, Campaign Revealed

Researchers explained how they traced a cybercriminal’s tracks through a series of proxies, compromised web servers, and poorly secured routers. The suspect hasn’t been apprehended yet, but could be behind a larger campaign, they said. Peter Kruse and Jan Kaastrup, researchers with Denmark’s CSIS...

How Dutch Police Decrypted BlackBerry PGP Messages For Criminal Investigation

The Dutch police have managed to decrypt a number of PGP-encrypted messages sent by criminals using their custom security-focused PGP BlackBerry phones and identified several criminals in an ongoing investigation. PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, an open source end-to-end encryption standard that can...

Slack: Stealing xoxs-tokens using weak postMessage / call-popup redirect to current team domain

@fransrosen discovered a vulnerability which would allow an attacker running a malicious site to steal XOXS tokens. We resolved the postMessage and call-popup redirect issues, and performed a thorough investigation to confirm that this had never been exploited. Thanks @fransrosen for an interesti...

Incident Detection and Investigation - How Math Helps But Is Not Enough

I love math. I am even going to own up to having been a "mathlete" and looking forward to the annual UVM Math Contest in high school. I pursued a degree in engineering, so I can now more accurately say that I love applied mathematics, which have a much different goal than pure mathematics. Taking...

Polish Banks Hacked using Malware Planted on their own Government Site

In what considered to be the largest system hack in the country's history and a massive attack on the financial sector, several banks in Poland have been infected with malware. What's surprising? The source of the malware infection is their own financial regulator, the Polish Financial Supervisio...

Detecting threat actors in recent German industrial attacks with Windows Defender ATP

When a Germany-based industrial conglomerate disclosed in December 2016 that it was breached early that year, the breach was revealed to be a professionally run industrial espionage attack. According to the German press, the intruders used the Winnti family of malware as their main implant, givin...

St. Louis Public Library Recovers from Ransomware Attack

Services are being restored to the St. Louis Public Library computer system after a ransomware attack last Thursday impacted access to machines and data at all 17 branches. Library management refused to pay the $35,000 demanded as ransom, and IT staff wiped affected servers and restored them from...

Police Ask for Amazon Echo Data to Help Solve a Murder Case

Hey, Alexa! Who did this murder? Arkansas police are seeking help from e-commerce giant Amazon for data that may have been recorded on its Echo device belonging to a suspect in a murder case, bringing the conflict into the realm of the Internet of Things. Amazon Echo is a voice-activated smart ho...

Do You See What I CCM?

SCCM Software Metering Reviewing forensic keyword searches can be confusing because it is often difficult for an analyst to determine the source of the various structures that contain string matches. One such structure belongs to Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager's SCCM software...

German Industrial Giant Victim of Cyber Espionage

German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp disclosed last week that technical trade secrets were stolen in a cyberattack that dates back to February. Adversaries, ThyssenKrupp said, engaged in “organized, highly professional hacker activities” and launched their attack from the Southeast Asian...

Tor Project Releases Sandboxed Tor Browser 0.0.2

The non-profit organization behind TOR – the largest online anonymity network that allows people to hide their real identity online – has launched an early alpha version of Sandboxed Tor Browser 0.0.2. Yes, the Tor Project is working on a sandboxed version of the Tor Browser that would isolate th...

Malware Analysis Windows VM: Malboxes

Malware Analysis Windows VM Vagrant box builder and config generator for malware analysis. The malware battle online is far from being over. Several thousands of new malware binaries are collected by antivirus companies every day. Most organizations don’t have the expertise on staff to know if th...

DailyMotion Hack Leaks Emails, Passwords of 87M Users

DailyMotion, a popular video sharing website, said Tuesday it recently suffered an “external security problem” resulting in the compromise of an unspecified number of its users’ data. LeakedSource.com, a repository of breached data, added DailyMotion to its list of “Hacked Sites” on Monday. The...

Anonymous Hacktivist 'Barrett Brown' Released From Prison

Barrett Brown, a journalist, formerly served as an unofficial spokesman for the hacktivist collective Anonymous, finally walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after serving more than four years behind bars. The Dallas-born investigative journalist was arrested in 2012 from his home while he...

A for TP-Link debug Protocol TDDP）vulnerability Mining the story-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

I wrote this article originally in order to simplify the WiFi penetration testing research work. We want to use last year by the Core Security released WIWO, it can be a computer network interface and a WiFi Router between the establishment of a transparent channel. Research the first step is to...

3 Mobile UK Hacked – 6 Million Customers' Private Data at risk

Three, one of UK's biggest mobile operators, has become the latest victim of a massive data breach that reportedly left the personal information and contact details of 6 Million of its customers exposed. The company admitted the data breach late Thursday, saying that computer hackers gained acces...

SWIFT Hack: Bangladesh Bank Recovers $15 Million from a Philippines Casino

Part of the $81 Million stolen from Bangladesh bank's New York Federal Reserve account earlier this year in the wake of the major malware attack on the SWIFT interbank transfer network has been tracked down to a casino in the Philippines. SWIFT, or Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunicatio...