USN-4106-1: NLTK vulnerability

Mike Salvatore discovered that NLTK mishandled crafted ZIP archives during extraction. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem...

From unstructured data to actionable intelligence: Using machine learning for threat intelligence

The security community has become proficient in using indicators of compromise IoC feeds for threat intelligence. Automated feeds have simplified the task of extracting and sharing IoCs. However, IoCs like IP addresses, domain names, and file hashes are in the lowest levels of the threat...

Apple iOS, watchOS and macOS Mojave Natural Language Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Apple iOS, watchOS, and macOS Mojave are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices; watchOS is an operating system for smartwatches; and macOS Mojave is a specialized operating system for Mac computers. Natural Language Processing is one of the natural language...

macOS 10.14.x < 10.14.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote host is running a version of macOS / Mac OS X that is 10.14.x prior to 10.14.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities related to the following components: - AppleKeyStore - Bluetooth - Core Media - CoreAnimation - FaceTime - IOKit - Kernel - libxpc - Natural Language...

About the security content of watchOS 5.1.3

About the security content of watchOS 5.1.3 This document describes the security content of watchOS 5.1.3. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are...

Malicious PowerShell Detection via Machine Learning

Introduction Cyber security vendors and researchers have reported for years how PowerShell is being used by cyber threat actors to install backdoors, execute malicious code, and otherwise achieve their objectives within enterprises. Security is a cat-and-mouse game between adversaries, researcher...

Email Phishers Using A Simple Way to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection

Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cyber criminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass most AI-powered phishing detection mechanisms implemented by widely used email services and web security scanners. Dubbed ZeroFont, the technique involves...

New Analytics Tool Defines Language Used Malicious Domains

OpenDNS has gone public with a new tool that uses a blend of analytics principles found outside information security to create a threat model for detecting domains used in criminal and state-sponsored hacking campaigns. NLPRank is not ready for production, said OpenDNS director of security resear...