Partner Perspectives: Awake Security and Carbon Black Deliver Comprehensive Threat Detection and Response

Rudolph Araujo is the Vice President of Awake Security. Even relatively unsophisticated attackers today use tools, tactics and techniques that make them difficult to uncover. For instance, the use of non-malware tools, such as PowerShell, psexec and Python, places a burden on security teams to...

3 Infosec Reflections to Kick off 2019 & Finally Shift the Balance of Power Back to Defenders

Wow. It's already 2019. Talk about a year in 2018 that flew by! I won’t spend this entire blog talking about 2018 but, needless to say, a lot happened in 2018 and it doesn’t look to slow down anytime soon. This time of year, I like to stop and reflect on the previous year and think about moving...

Exploit for CVE-2018-8581

CVE-2018-8581 This is a mailbox-level lateral penetration an...

Marriott breach impacts 500 million customers: here’s what to do about it

Today Marriott disclosed a large-scale data breach impacting up to 500 million customers who have stayed at a Starwood-branded hotel within the last four years. While details of the breach are still sparse, Marriott stated that there was unauthorized access to a database tied to customer...

TrickBot takes over as top business threat

Last quarter brought with it a maddening number of political ads, shocking and divisive news stories on climate change and gun laws, and mosquitoes. We hate mosquitoes. In related unpleasant news, it also apparently ushered in an era of banking Trojans that, as of this moment, shows no signs of...

Media File Manager <= 1.4.2 - Authenticated Multiple Vulnerabilities

Following the PoC you can combine the vulnerabilities to obtain PHP code execution and read sensitive file. By default the File Manager can only be used by Administrator users, however, any user role can be configured to use it. Diretory Trasversal: POST /wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1....

Time to Eliminate Traditional VPNs

It is time to stop trusting your endpoints implicitly and reduce the complexity and risk associated with traditional VPN access and flat networks. Varied digital ecosystems, cloud migration, and workforce mobility have created a climate where the network perimeter no longer exists. This is eviden...

Carbon Black Report: An Evolution of Cyberattacks

Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report An Evolution of Cyberattacks From Grab-and-Go Breaches to Long-Term Campaigns The data in this report reveals that today’s cyberattacks manifest as increasingly complex, long-term campaigns. Employing high-level tools and techniques, attackers set out to...

LuckyMouse signs malicious NDISProxy driver with certificate of Chinese IT company

What happened? Since March 2018 we have discovered several infections where a previously unknown Trojan was injected into the lsass.exe system process memory. These implants were injected by the digitally signed 32- and 64-bit network filtering driver NDISProxy. Interestingly, this driver is sign...

Active Spy Campaign Exploits Unpatched Windows Zero-Day

The recently discovered Windows zero-day – which still doesn’t have a patch – has been used in the wild for the last week, with an active info-stealing campaign emerging just two days after its disclosure on Twitter. The flaw is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Task...

Comparison of Open Source Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed If you liked my older post titled "List of Adversary Emulation Tools", I am sure you must want to know what is the difference or comparison between the different tools. This post is an attempt to do just that -to list down the comparison of open source adversary emulation tools...

Carbon Black Report: 46% of Incident Response Professionals Experience Counter Incident Response

Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report Executive Summary/Highlights Proactive Incident Response Even as a steady drumbeat of headlines keeps the world’s attention focused on cybercrimes such as ransomware and cryptojacking, in the dark corners of the internet, attackers are busy refining their...

CVE-2018-13395

Various resources in Atlassian Jira before version 7.6.8, from version 7.7.0 before version 7.7.5, from version 7.8.0 before version 7.8.5, from version 7.9.0 before version 7.9.3, from version 7.10.0 before version 7.10.3 and before version 7.11.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML ...

Simplifying and Prioritizing Advanced Threat Response Measures

I had to go to the doctor the other day because I was miserable and sick. I don’t like going to the doctor so I waited until my stuffy nose and congestion turned into a full blown sinus infection. The doctor said this thing was going around, and I should be better in a few day with my prescriptio...

Mozilla Firefox < 61 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Threatlist: Manufacturing, a Top Target for Espionage

When it comes to cyberattack-related reconnaissance and lateral movement activity, the manufacturing industry exhibits higher than normal rates. That’s according to Vectra’s 2018 Spotlight Report on Manufacturing, which crunched data from more than 4 million devices and workloads from customer...

Iron Rain: Cybersecurity Is an Ever-Changing Battlefield

Editor's Note: This is the final blog in a three-part series, "Iron Rain" from Tom Kellermann and Rick McElroy. Part 1: Iron Rain: What Defines a Cyber Insurgency? Part 2: Iron Rain: Gaining Situational Intelligence to Make Rapid Decisions Part 3: The ever-changing battlefield. Just like in comba...

Carbon Black Report: China, Russia & North Korea Launching Sophisticated, Espionage-Focused Cyberattacks

Even as a steady drumbeat of headlines keeps the world’s attention focused on cybercrimes, such as ransomware and cryptojacking, in the dark corners of the internet, attackers are busy refining their craft. According to the world’s top incident response IR professionals, cyberattackers are honing...

Hacker Puts Airport's Security System Access On Dark Web Sale For Just $10

If you can't find it on Google, you will definitely find it on the Dark Web. Black markets on the Dark web are not known for just buying drugs, it is a massive hidden network where you can buy pretty much anything you can imagine—from pornography, weapon, and counterfeit currencies, to hacking...

Newsmaker Interview: VDOO CEO Talks Top IoT Threats

IoT security is like a game of Whac-A-Mole. Fix one CVE and four new bugs pop up. Last month, researchers found a slew of vulnerabilities in Axis cameras that could enable an attacker to access camera video streams, control the camera, add it to a botnet or render it useless. Also in June, IP...