Dexphot Malware Hijacks 80K+ Devices to Mine Cryptocurrency

Microsoft is warning of malware, Dexphot, that has infected more than 80,000 machines, sucking up their CPU power in order to mine cryptocurrency. Researchers first discovered Dexphot in October 2018 and saw its activity peak during July. They said that the malware has a complex attack chain and...

The vulnerability of the software detection mechanism in Cisco Firepower System Software allows attackers to circumvent the configured security policies for detecting malicious programs and files with extensions .RTF and .RAR.

The vulnerability of the Cisco Firepower System Software’s malware detection mechanism exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass established security policies without being detected as carrying malware. The detected files...

The vulnerability of the software detection mechanism in Cisco Firepower System Software allows attackers to circumvent the configured security policies for detecting malicious programs and files with extensions .RTF and .RAR.

The vulnerability of the Cisco Firepower System Software’s malware detection mechanism exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass established security policies without being detected as carrying malware. The detected files...

This Week in Security News: APT33 Botnets Used for Extreme Narrow Targeting and Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Arrives with A Patch for An IE Zero-Day

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the APT33 threat group that is using live C&C servers for extremely narrow targeting. Also, read about Trend Micro’s complete...

CVE-2019-3636 File masquerade attack vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection

A File Masquerade vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection MTP version 16.0.R21 and earlier in Windows client allowed an attacker to read the plaintext list of AV-Scan exclusion files from the Windows registry, and to possibly replace excluded files with potential malware without being detected...

Time for day 2 of briefings at BlueHat Seattle!

We hope you enjoyed the first day of our BlueHat briefings and the Bytes of BlueHat reception in our glamping tent complete with toasted marshmallows. Yesterday, we learned a lot about how XboxOne hardware security has advanced the state of hardware security elsewhere, we heard some surprising...

Time for day 2 of briefings at BlueHat Seattle!

We hope you enjoyed the first day of our BlueHat briefings and the Bytes of BlueHat reception in our glamping tent complete with toasted marshmallows. Yesterday, we learned a lot about how XboxOne hardware security has advanced the state of hardware security elsewhere, we heard some surprising...

Gustuff Android Banker Switches Up Technical Approach

An Instagram-initiated campaign using the Gustuff Android mobile banking trojan has rolled out in October, featuring an updated version of the malware that lowers its detection profile. How the cybercriminals are rolling out the campaign is the same as a previous offensive seen in June, according...

Definitive Dossier of Devilish Debug Details – Part Deux: A Didactic Deep Dive into Data Driven Deductions

In Part One of this blog series, Steve Miller outlined what PDB paths are, how they appear in malware, how we use them to detect malicious files, and how we sometimes use them to make associations about groups and actors. As Steve continued his research into PDB paths, we became interested in...

Microsoft Windows NTFS - Privileged File Access Enumeration

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT-WINDOWS-NTFS-PRIVILEGED-FILE-ACCESS-ENUMERATION.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec Vendor www.microsoft.com Product Windows NTFS NTFS is a proprietary journaling file system...

The Shady Secrets of Shadow Networks

Shadow networks are side channels to traditional networks, undetected and working quietly in the background alongside what the traditional network was designed to do. Command and Control sometimes referred to as C2 servers maintain links with compromised end points IoT, PCs, Printers etc within a...

OSXCollector - A Forensic Evidence Collection & Analysis Toolkit For OS X

OSXCollector is a forensic evidence collection & analysis toolkit for OSX. Forensic Collection The collection script runs on a potentially infected machine and outputs a JSON file that describes the target machine. OSXCollector gathers information from plists, SQLite databases and the local file...

Partner Perspectives: From Alert to Action: How VMRay Provides Carbon Black with Detail-Rich Threat Intelligence

Good things happen when two leaders in their respective fields bring together their complementary capabilities. That’s the case with Carbon Black’s deep expertise in endpoint detection and response EDR and VMRay’s singular focus on dynamic malware analysis. The sum ends up being even greater than...

Caution: Misuse of security tools can turn against you

We have a saying in Greece: "They assigned the wolf to watch over the sheep." In a security context, this is a word of caution about making sure the tools we use to keep our information private don't actually cause the data leaks themselves. In this article, I will be talking about some cases tha...

Project TajMahal – a sophisticated new APT framework

Executive summary 'TajMahal' is a previously unknown and technically sophisticated APT framework discovered by Kaspersky Lab in the autumn of 2018. This full-blown spying framework consists of two packages named 'Tokyo' and 'Yokohama'. It includes backdoors, loaders, orchestrators, C2...

phpMussel - PHP-based Anti-Virus Anti-Trojan Anti-Malware Solution

phpMussel is an ideal solution for shared hosting environments, where it's often not possible to utilize or install conventional anti-virus protection solutions, phpMussel is a PHP script designed to detect trojans, viruses,malware and other threats within files uploaded to your system wherever t...

This Week in Security News: Security Vulnerabilities

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn what critical approaches can protect your enterprise business from software vulnerabilities. Also, learn about vulnerabilities in IoT...

IoT-Home-Guard - A Tool For Malicious Behavior Detection In IoT Devices

IoT-Home-Guard is a project to help people discover malware in smart home devices. For users the project can help to detect compromised smart home devices. For security researchers it is also useful in network analysis and malicious hehaviors detection. In July 2018 we had completed the first...

Major Android ad fraud scam campaign drains battery & eats data

By Waqas Presence of infected games and apps that are costing innocent users financial and data losses is not a new phenomenon. However, it is indeed surprising that a firm that promises to fight app piracy is itself involved in this horrendous act. According to the latest research from Oracle,...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.37 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.37 includes updates and new features for Security Assessment Questionnaire and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Security Assessment Questionnaire Manager access to all active campaigns – Questionnaire Manager role now has access ...