Stopping Active Directory attacks and other post-exploitation behavior with AMSI and machine learning

When attackers successfully breach a target network, their typical next step is to perform reconnaissance of the network, elevate their privileges, and move laterally to reach specific machines or spread as widely as possible. For these activities, attackers often probe the affected network’s...

Dopple-Ganging Up on Facial Recognition

ARCHIVED STORY Dopple-ganging up on Facial Recognition Systems By Steve Povolny · August 25, 2020 Co-authored with Jesse Chick, OSU Senior and Former McAfee Intern, Primary Researcher. Special thanks to Dr. Catherine Huang, McAfee Advanced Analytics Team Special thanks to Kyle Baldes, Former McAf...

A week in security (August 17 – 23)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare cybersecurity, dug into some pandemic stats in terms of how workforces coped with going remote, and served up a crash course on malware detection. Our most recent Lock and Code podcast explored the safety of parenta...

NCR SelfServ ATMs APTRA XFS Encryption Issue Vulnerability

NCR SelfServ ATMs is a self-service ATM machine device. A cryptographic issue vulnerability exists in NCR SelfServ ATMs APTRA XFS, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to sign arbitrary files and CAB archives used to update the BNA software, bypass the application whitelist, and execute...

CVE-2020-7710

This affects all versions of package safe-eval. It is possible for an attacker to run an arbitrary command on the host machine...

Command injection

This affects all versions of package safe-eval. It is possible for an attacker to run an arbitrary command on the host machine...

CVE-2020-7710 Sandbox Escape

This affects all versions of package safe-eval. It is possible for an attacker to run an arbitrary command on the host machine...

Brave Software: Arbitrary file download via "Save .torrent file" option can lead to Client RCE and XSS

Summary: An attacker can use the "Save .torrent file" option in WebTorrent to smuggle malicious files onto the client's machine. Description Brave allows users to download the ".torrent" via WebTorrent. WebTorrent decides whether a file is torrent or not based on the following headers...

Automate Virtual Machine Creation in Azure DevOps

See how you can enable more automation in your Microsoft® Azure® virtual machine infrastructure builds, deployments, and security implementation...

ATM Hackers Have Picked Up Some Clever New Tricks

So-called jackpotting attacks have gotten increasingly sophisticated—while cash machines have stayed pretty much the same...

CVE-2020-16087

An issue was discovered in Zalo.exe in VNG Zalo Desktop 19.8.1.0. An attacker can run arbitrary commands on a remote Windows machine running the Zalo client by sending the user of the device a crafted file...

Advantech WebAccess HMI Designer Type Obfuscation Vulnerability

Advantech WebAccess HMI Designer is an integrated HMI development tool from Advantech, Taiwan, China. The product is equipped with features such as data transfer, menu editing and text editing. A type confusion vulnerability exists in Advantech WebAccess HMI Designer version 2.1.9.31 and prior...

Directory Traversal

ceph is vulnerable to directory traversal. An unauthenticated attacker is able to exploit the vulnerability to cause information disclosure on the host machine running the Ceph dashboard...

Docker Privileged Container Escape

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework POC modified from https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/19/understanding-docker-container-escapes/ class MetasploitModule 'Docker Privileged Container Escape',...

Black Hat 2020: In a Turnaround, Voting Machine Vendor Embraces Ethical Hackers

Voting machine-maker Election Systems & Software ES&S has formally announced a vulnerability disclosure policy, Wednesday, during a Black Hat USA 2020 session. The move, which comes with the U.S. presidential elections looming in November, shows that voting-machine vendors are beginning to take t...

Repurposing Neural Networks to Generate Synthetic Media for Information Operations

FireEye’s Data Science and Information Operations Analysis teams released this blog post to coincide with our Black Hat USA 2020 Briefing, which details how open source, pre-trained neural networks can be leveraged to generate synthetic media for malicious purposes. To summarize our presentation,...

novnc: XSS vulnerability via the messages propagated to the status field

An XSS vulnerability was discovered in noVNC in which arbitrary HTML could be injected into the noVNC web page. An attacker having access to a VNC server could use target host values in a crafted URL to gain access to secure information such as VM tokens...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: RHV Manager (ovirt-engine) 4.4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated ovirt-engine packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

Kubevirt Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Kubevirt is a virtual machine manager. A security vulnerability exists in kubevirt 0.29 and earlier versions. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain privileges to a VM process on a host system to read and modify any file on a system running VMI, affecting data confidentiality and...

Security Bulletin: Watson Machine Learning Service is impacted by security vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 11

Summary Security vulnerabilities in OpenJDK impacts Watson Machine Learning Service. These vulnerabilities are now addressed. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-2964 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Concurrency component could allow an unauthenticated attacke...