Increased Use of WMI for Environment Detection and Evasion

Introduction Throughout the past few months, FireEye Labs has observed an increased use of Windows Management Instrumentation WMI queries for environment detection and evasion of dynamic analysis and virtualization engines. WMI provides high-level interaction with Windows objects using C/C++,...

Mamba Ransomware Encrypts Hard Drives Rather Than Files

Just when we thought ransomware’s evolution had peaked, a new strain has been discovered that forgoes the encryption of individual files, and instead encrypts a machine’s hard drive. The malware, called Mamba, has been found on machines in Brazil, the United States and India, according to...

Announcing the Third Annual Flare-On Challenge

Let fall be the season for reverse engineering! On Sept. 23, 2016, the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team will be hosting its third annual Flare-On reverse engineering contest with a designated start time of 8pm ET. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring rever...

FDA, DHS Investigating St. Jude Device Vulnerabilities

The U.S. government has entered into the St. Jude-MedSec-Muddy Waters fray with an investigation into claims St. Jude medical devices are vulnerable to cyberattacks. The Food and Drug Administration and Department of Homeland Security also apparently disapprove of the approach taken by MedSec and...

Google.fr Cross Site Scripting

Cross-site scripting vulnerability found on www.google.fr We were able to identify a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the main domain of Google: www.google.fr. Description Cross-site scripting is a kind of vulnerability that allows an attacker to send malicious code, usually in the form ...

How to Leak Data From Air Gapped Computers With USB Devices

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of Negev have found a way to take a run-of-the-mill USB device and use it to leak data from an air-gapped computers via RF signals. Academics with the school’s Cyber Security Research Labs division claim they’ve come up with software, dubbed USBee, that can...

Joshua Drake on Android Security Post-Stagefright

Joshua Drake of Zimperium Labs talks to Mike Mimoso about the last year post-Stagefright, the effectiveness of Google’s monthly patching cycle, and some of the security enhancements forthcoming in Android N. Download: JoshuaDrakeonPost-StagefrightAndroid.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

CloudBees Jenkins Cucumber Reports Plugin Security Bypass Vulnerability

CloudBees Jenkins formerly known as Hudson Labs is the United States CloudBees company's set of Java-based development of continuous integration tools , it is mainly used to monitor the continuous software version of the release/testing project and some of the timed execution of the task . Jenkin...

LastPass Patches Ormandy Remote Compromise Flaw

LastPass has patched a vulnerability in its Firefox add-on found by Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy that allows attackers complete remote compromise of the password manager, . The divisive Ormandy submitted a bug report on Tuesday to LastPass after a series of tweets hinting at serio...

0day vulnerabilities: hackers from the BMW portal tampering with car information-bug warning-the black bar safety net

http://www.zdnet.com/Article/hackers-can-tamper-with-car-registration-through-bmw-connected-car-portal/ ! ConnectedDrive portal and BMW of the domain is very vulnerable,the hacker can not patch the vulnerability to attack. Researchers have recently disclosed the impact of the BMW the BMW website...

NSD (Name Server Daemon) < 4.1.11 AXFR Response DoS Vulnerability

NSD Name Server Daemon is prone to a denial of service DoS vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Automatically Extracting Obfuscated Strings from Malware using the FireEye Labs Obfuscated String Solver (FLOSS)

Introduction and Motivation Have you ever run strings.exe on a malware executable and its output provided you with IP addresses, file names, registry keys, and other indicators of compromise IOCs? Great! No need to run further analysis or hire expensive experts to determine if a file is malicious...

Automatically Extracting Obfuscated Strings from Malware using the FireEye Labs Obfuscated String Solver (FLOSS)

Introduction and Motivation Have you ever run strings.exe on a malware executable and its output provided you with IP addresses, file names, registry keys, and other indicators of compromise IOCs? Great! No need to run further analysis or hire expensive experts to determine if a file is malicious...

Resurrection of the Evil Miner

At FireEye Labs, we recently detected the resurgence of a coin mining campaign with a novel and unconventional infection vector in the form of an iFRAME inline frame – an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a web page that allows users to get content from another separate sourc...

wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities

Wireshark development team reports: The following vulnerabilities have been fixed: wnpa-sec-2016-29 The SPOOLS dissector could go into an infinite loop. Discovered by the CESG. wnpa-sec-2016-30 The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash. Bug 11585 wnpa-sec-2016-31 The IEEE 802.11 dissector could crash...

Lenovo company to inform the user as soon as the uninstall containing the vulnerability the software update program-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Recently,LenovoLenovo, said in a statement,they found that:before the launch of the software update program in the presence of security vulnerabilities. Due to the vulnerability within a short time can not be timely repair,so the requirements of the user as soon as possible in their use,install...

APT Group Sends Spear Phishing Emails to Indian Government Officials

Introduction On May 18, 2016, FireEye Labs observed a suspected Pakistan-based APT group sending spear phishing emails to Indian government officials. This threat actor has been active for several years and conducting suspected intelligence collection operations against South Asian political and...

APT Group Sends Spear Phishing Emails to Indian Government Officials

Introduction On May 18, 2016, FireEye Labs observed a suspected Pakistan-based APT group sending spear phishing emails to Indian government officials. This threat actor has been active for several years and conducting suspected intelligence collection operations against South Asian political and...

OEM Bloatware Security Vulnerabilities Found

Last year’s Superfish and eDellRoot bloatware mishaps exposed the security nightmare that pre-installed software updaters can create on new laptops. And while these two high-profile incidents made the issue public, they’re hardly isolated cases. Many popular consumer and business laptops from...

Sensio Labs Symfony Denial of Service Vulnerability

Sensio Labs Symfony is a free French Sensio Labs company , based on the MVC architecture of the PHP development framework . The framework provides commonly used functional components and tools , can be used to quickly create complex WEB program . A security vulnerability exists in Sensio Labs...