GHSA-4363-X42F-XPH6 Malicious Package in hw-trnasport-u2f

All versions of this package contained malware. The package was designed to find and exfiltrate cryptocurrency wallets. Recommendation Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated...

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...

‘Just tell me how to fix my computer:’ a crash course on malware detection

Malware. You’ve heard the term before, and you know it’s bad for your computer—like a computer virus. Which begs the question: Do the terms “malware” and “computer virus” mean the same thing? How do you know if your computer is infected with malware? Is "malware detection" just a fancy phrase for...

Microsoft launches free Linux memory forensics tool for detecting malware

By Sudais Asif Microsoft's project Freta is focused on detecting both... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft launches free Linux memory forensics tool for detecting malware...

VirusTotal Adds Cynet's Artificial Intelligence-Based Malware Detection

VirusTotal, the famous multi-antivirus scanning service owned by Google, recently announced new threat detection capabilities it added with the help of an Israeli cybersecurity firm. VirusTotal provides a free online service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs to detect malware and...

Secure Your Global Remote Workforce

Update June 9, 2020: Qualys adds Malware Detection to Free 60-Day Remote Endpoint Protection offering. This post has been updated to reflect this new Malware Detection capability. IT organizations around the world are responding to the challenge posed by COVID-19 by ensuring that employees are ab...

Protecting against coronavirus themed phishing attacks

The world has changed in unprecedented ways in the last several weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. While it has brought out the best in humanity in many ways, as with any crisis it can also attract the worst in some. Cybercriminals use people’s fear and need for information in phishing attack...

Behavioral blocking and containment: Transforming optics into protection

In today’s threat landscape—overrun by fileless malware that live off the land, highly polymorphic threats that mutate faster than traditional solutions can keep up with, human-operated attacks that adapt to what adversaries find on compromised machines, and other sophisticated threats—behavioral...

HTTP Asynchronous Reverse Shell - Asynchronous Reverse Shell Using The HTTP Protocol

Today there are many ways to create a reverse shell in order to be able to remotely control a machine through a firewall. Indeed, outgoing connections are not always filtered. However security software and hardware IPS, IDS, Proxy, AV, EDR... are more and more powerful and can detect these attack...

CVE-2020-3181

A vulnerability in the malware detection functionality in Cisco Advanced Malware Protection AMP in Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances ESAs could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust resources on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient...

CVE-2020-3181 Cisco Email Security Appliance Uncontrolled Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the malware detection functionality in Cisco Advanced Malware Protection AMP in Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances ESAs could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust resources on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient...

CVE-2020-3181

CVE-2020-3181 : Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESA) contains an uncontrolled resource-exhaustion vulnerability in the malware detection/AMP path due to insufficient control over memory allocation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a crafted email to exhaust device re...

Firefox Enables DNS over HTTPS

This is good news: Whenever you visit a website -- even if it's HTTPS enabled -- the DNS query that converts the web address into an IP address that computers can read is usually unencrypted. DNS-over-HTTPS, or DoH, encrypts the request so that it can't be intercepted or hijacked in order to send...

Introduction and Application of Model Hacking

ARCHIVED STORY Introduction and Application of Model Hacking By Steve Povolny · Febraury 19, 2020 Catherine Huang, Ph.D., and Shivangee Trivedi contributed to this blog. The term “Adversarial Machine Learning” AML is a mouthful! The term describes a research field regarding the study and design o...

Introduction and Application of Model Hacking

ARCHIVED STORY Introduction and Application of Model Hacking By Steve Povolny · Febraury 19, 2020 Catherine Huang, Ph.D., and Shivangee Trivedi contributed to this blog. The term “Adversarial Machine Learning” AML is a mouthful! The term describes a research field regarding the study and design o...

DrSemu - Malware Detection And Classification Tool Based On Dynamic Behavior

Dr.Semu runs executables in an isolated environment, monitors the behavior of a process, and based on Dr.Semu rules created by you or the community, detects if the process is malicious or not. whoami:@qazqaz With Dr.Semu you can create rules to detect malware based on dynamic behavior of a proces...

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - February 2020 (KB890830)

After the download, this tool runs one time to check your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom and helps remove any infection that is found. If an infection is found, the tool will display a status report the next time that you sta...

Acunetix v13 - Web Application Security Scanner

Acunetix, the pioneer in automated web application security software, has announced the release of Acunetix Version 13. The new release comes with an improved user interface and introduces innovations such as the SmartScan engine, malware detection functionality, comprehensive network scanning,...

Abusing DLL Misconfigurations — Using Threat Intelligence to Weaponize R&D

DLL Abuse Techniques Overview Dynamic-link library DLL side-loading occurs when Windows Side-by-Side WinSxS manifests are not explicit about the characteristics of DLLs being loaded by a program. In layman’s terms, DLL side-loading can allow an attacker to trick a program into loading a malicious...

Why DNS Visibility Matters in Education

My colleague in Spain recently wrote an informative article about DNS Protection and why it's a must-have security solution for any company. Building out on this topic, I would like to look specifically at the Education market and what the consequences can be if DNS Visibility is not taken...