Behind the CARBANAK Backdoor

In this blog, we will take a closer look at the powerful, versatile backdoor known as CARBANAK aka Anunak. Specifically, we will focus on the operational details of its use over the past few years, including its configuration, the minor variations observed from sample to sample, and its evolution...

Cisco Elastic Services Controller Authentication Request Processing Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the esclistener.py script of Cisco Elastic Services Controllers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as the tomcat user on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of arguments that are passed while...

Distributed, Search Optimized Full Packet Capture System: PCAPDB

Distributed, Search Optimized Full Packet Capture System PcapDB is a distributed, search-optimized open source packet capture system. It was designed to replace expensive, commercial appliances with off-the-shelf hardware and a free, easy to manage software system. Captured packets are reorganize...

Introducing InsightOps: A New Approach to IT Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Today we are announcing the general availability of a brand new solution: Rapid7 InsightOps. This latest addition to the Insight platform continues our mission to transform data into answers, giving you the confidence and control to act quickly. InsightOps is Rapid7s first IT-specific solution,...

Access Control Deficiencies and Remote Shared Buffer Leakage Vulnerabilities in the Southern Automated Monitoring System (SAMS)

South Deformation Monitoring System SMOS is a deformation monitoring system for monitoring various structures. The SMOS suffers from an Access Control Deficiency and Remote Shared Buffer Leakage vulnerability. An attacker could exploit the vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information...

7 Steps to Protect Your Data From Insider Threats

Like it or not, your greatest risk is already on the payroll. When internal users with trusted access to data are careless, become compromised or have malicious intent, enterprise data is exposed. Just ask the CIA. Detecting insider threats, however, is challenging for organizations due to the...

Weak Password Vulnerability in Android APP of Intelligent Cold Chain Monitoring Cloud Platform

Intelligent cold chain monitoring cloud platform adopts advanced cloud platform + mobile terminal / cell phone APP method to build the whole process of controllable and scalable monitoring cloud platform. There is a weak password in the Android APP system of Intelligent Cold Chain Monitoring Clou...

PowerSCADA Photovoltaic Power Generation Automation Monitoring System APP suffers from SQL Injection Vulnerability

PowerSCADA PV power generation automation monitoring system APP is a power monitoring system that realizes real-time monitoring of all aspects of power, viewing of historical data, and real-time response to alarm messages in mobile terminals. PowerSCADA PV automation monitoring system APP has SQL...

Low Interaction Honeypot: honeytrap

Honeytrap is a low-interaction honeypot and network security tool written to catch attacks against TCP and UDP services. In its default configuration, it runs as a daemon and starts server processes on demand when a connection attempt to a port is made. Different modes of operation are available...

Heroku Dynos Explained

What are Heroku Dynos? If youve ever hosted an application on Heroku, the popular platform as a service, youre likely at least aware of the existence of "Dynos". But what exactly are Heroku Dynos and why are they important? As explained in Herokus docs, Dynos are simply lightweight Linux containe...

Active vs. Passive Server Monitoring

Server monitoring is a requirement, not a choice. It is used for your entire software stack, web-based enterprise suites, custom applications, e-commerce sites, local area networks, etc. Unmonitored servers are lost opportunities for optimization, difficult to maintain, more unpredictable, and mo...

Conexant Systems MicTray64 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Conexant Systems MicTray64 is an application that Conexant Systems USA installs with the Conexant Audio Driver package and registers as a Microsoft Scheduled Task to run after each user logs on. The program monitors all keystrokes taken by the user to capture and respond to functions such as...

Eyes Of Network (EON) Detection (HTTP)

HTTP based detection of Eyes Of Network EON. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 ifdescription...

PlaySMS 1.4 Remote Code Execution

Exploit Title: PlaySMS 1.4 Remote Code Execution to Poisoning admin log Date: 19-05-2017 Software Link: https://playsms.org/download/ Version: 1.4 Exploit Author: Touhid M.Shaikh Contact: http://twitter.com/touhidshaikh22 Website: http://touhidshaikh.com/ Category: webapps 1. Description Remote...

No More Tears: WannaCry Highlights Importance of Prompt Vulnerability Detection, Remediation

It didn’t have to happen. That’s the simple yet profound lesson from WannaCry’s ransomware rampage that has infected 300,000-plus systems in more than 150 countries, disrupting critical operations across industries, including healthcare, government, transportation and finance. If vulnerable syste...

WordPress adsense-click-fraud-monitoring phpwhois cross-site scripting vulnerability

WordPress is a blogging platform developed by the WordPress Software Foundation using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers. adsense-click-fraud-monitoring is one of the malicious click monitoring plugins. phpwhois is a package containing Whois libraries fo...

PlaySMS 1.4 - Remote Code Execution

PlaySMS 1.4 - Remote Code Execution Exploit Title: PlaySMS 1.4 Remote Code Execution to Poisoning admin log Date: 19-05-2017 Software Link: https://playsms.org/download/ Version: 1.4 Exploit Author: Touhid M.Shaikh Contact: http://twitter.com/touhidshaikh22 Website: http://touhidshaikh.com/...

CVE-2015-3998

phpwhois version 4.2.5 used in the WordPress adsense-click-fraud-monitoring plugin version 1.7.5 is documented to have a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker can inject arbitrary script or HTML via the query parameter to whois.php. The linked reports confirm the affected componen...

WannaCry Update: Vulnerable SMB Shares Are Widely Deployed And People Are Scanning For Them

WannaCry Overview Last week the WannaCry ransomware worm, also known as Wanna Decryptor, Wanna Decryptor 2.0, WNCRY, and WannaCrypt started spreading around the world, holding computers for ransom at hospitals, government offices, and businesses. To recap: WannaCry exploits a vulnerability in the...

Average Logon Duration Is Not Available In Citrix Director

When an administrator logs in Citrix Director and goes to "trends" to look for Average Logon Duration, the information is not available. Logon Duration in MonitorData.Session Table in Monitoring Database also shows "Null" value for "Logon Duration" Restarting the Monitoring Service on Delivery...