Malware and Ransomware Detection in M365

Availability Requirement Threat Detection is available to Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 customers with Premium or Advanced plans. Customers must opt in to AI settings to enable this feature. Contact your Veeam account team or see your plan details to confirm availability. Supported Workloads...

Model Context Protocol Threat Modeling and Analyzing Vulnerabilities to Prompt Injection with Tool Poisoning

The Model Context Protocol MCP has rapidly emerged as a universal standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data sources. While MCP simplifies integration between AI applications and various services, it introduces significant security vulnerabilities, particularly on the client...

Faking Receipts with AI

Over the past few decades, it's become easier and easier to create fake receipts. Decades ago, it required special paper and printers--I remember a company in the UK advertising its services to people trying to cover up their affairs. Then, receipts became computerized, and faking them required...

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”...

File-Unpumper - Tool That Can Be Used To Trim Useless Things From A PE File Such As The Things A File Pumper Would Add

file-unpumper is a powerful command-line utility designed to clean and analyze Portable Executable PE files. It provides a range of features to help developers and security professionals work with PE files more effectively. Features PE Header Fixing : file-unpumper can fix and align the PE header...

ScrapPY - A Python Utility For Scraping Manuals, Documents, And Other Sensitive PDFs To Generate Wordlists That Can Be Utilized By Offensive Security Tools

ScrapPY is a Python utility for scraping manuals, documents, and other sensitive PDFs to generate targeted wordlists that can be utilized by offensive security tools to perform brute force, forced browsing, and dictionary attacks. ScrapPY performs word frequency, entropy, and metadata analysis, a...

New Research Delves into the World of Malicious LNK Files and Hackers Behind Them

Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging malicious LNK files as an initial access method to download and execute payloads such as Bumblebee, IcedID, and Qakbot. A recent study by cybersecurity experts has shown that it is possible to identify relationships between different threat actors by...

New Research Delves into the World of Malicious LNK Files and Hackers Behind Them

Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging malicious LNK files as an initial access method to download and execute payloads such as Bumblebee, IcedID, and Qakbot. A recent study by cybersecurity experts has shown that it is possible to identify relationships between different threat actors by...

Following the LNK metadata trail

Adversaries shift toward Shell Link LNK files, likely sparked by Microsofts decision to block macros, provides the opportunity to capitalize on information that can be provided by LNK metadata. Cisco Talos analyzed metadata in LNK files and correlated it with threat actors tactics techniques and...

Deep Packet Inspection vs. Metadata Analysis of Network Detection & Response (NDR) Solutions

Today, most Network Detection and Response NDR solutions rely on traffic mirroring and Deep Packet Inspection DPI. Traffic mirroring is typically deployed on a single-core switch to provide a copy of the network traffic to a sensor that uses DPI to thoroughly analyze the payload. While this...

Sherloq - An Open-Source Digital Image Forensic Toolset

An open source image forensic toolset Introduction "Forensic ImageAnalysis is the application of image science and domain expertise to interpret the content of an image and/or the image itself in legal matters. Major subdisciplines of Forensic Image Analysis with law enforcement applications...

Threat Analysis: Word Documents with Embedded Macros Leveraging Emotet Trojan

Many customers have recently asked how Carbon Black's solutions detect macros and droppers specifically referencing Emotet dropper files. Customers often say that macros and droppers are an ongoing problem in their environments. They are also seen day-to-day by most practitioners. The analysis...

Response Operation Collection Kit: ROCK NSM

MOCYBER’s open source Network Security Monitoring platform ROCK is a collections platform, in the spirit of Network Security Monitoring, designed by members of the Missouri National Guard’s Cyber Team. It’s primary focus is to provide a robust, scalable sensor platform for both enduring security...

Passive Intelligence Gathering: Just-Metadata

Just-Metadata is a tool that gathers and analyzes metadata about IP addresses. It attempts to find relationships between systems within a large dataset. Just-Metadata is a tool that can be used to gather intelligence information passively about a large number of IP addresses, and attempt to...

Study Shows 'Metadata is Highly Sensitive'

The term metadata and the implications of its collection and analysis have been one of the key points in the debate surrounding the NSA’s broad surveillance programs over the last year. Legislators, policy makers and others continue to argue about whether metadata can actually reveal anything abo...

How Dark Mail Plans to Build an Open, Secure Email Platform

The new Dark Mail Alliance formed this week by Lavabit and Silent Circle will offer an open platform for secure email that will use existing protocols and cloud storage as a way to evade surveillance. The new system, which should be available next year, is in some ways a throwback to the...

[Ghiro v0.1] Digital Image Forensic Analyzer

Sometime forensic investigators need to process digital images as evidence. There are some tools around, otherwise it is difficult to deal with forensic analysis with lot of images involved. Images contain tons of information, Ghiro extracts these information from provided images and display them...

JPEGsnoop 1.5.2 <= WriteAV Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits !/usr/bin/perl JPEGsnoop 1.5.2 Vendor URI: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegsnoop/ Vendor Description: JPEGsnoop is a detailed JPEG image decoder and analysis tool. It reports all image metadata and can even help identify if an image has...

JPEGsnoop 1.5.2 Code Execution

!/usr/bin/perl JPEGsnoop 1.5.2 Vendor URI: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegsnoop/ Vendor Description: JPEGsnoop is a detailed JPEG image decoder and analysis tool. It reports all image metadata and can even help identify if an image has been edited. Debug info: Microsoft R Windows Debugger...

Forensic FOCA - Power of Metadata in digital forensics

Forensic FOCA - Power of Metadata in digital forensics Most of the e ort in today's digital forensics community lies in the retrieval and analysis of existing information from computing systems. Metadata is data about data. Metadata plays a number of important roles in computer forensics. It can...