Fear the Reaper, or Reaper Madness?

Last week we looked at reports from China and Israel about a new "Internet of Things" malware strain called "Reaper" that researchers said infected more than a million organizations by targeting newfound security weaknesses in countless Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorde...

FIN7 Spear Phishing Attacks Now Aim At Avoiding Detection

By Uzair Amir The FIN7 hacking group has been targeting organizations from the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FIN7 Spear Phishing Attacks Now Aim At Avoiding Detection...

Spoofed SEC Emails Distribute Evolved DNSMessenger

This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Colin Grady, with contributions from Dave Maynor and @Simpo13.Executive SummaryCisco Talos previously published research into a targeted attack that leveraged an interesting infection process using DNS TXT records to create a bidirectional command and...

Taking Healthcare Threat Protection to the Next Level with HITRUST

Healthcare organizations HCOs worldwide continue to be on the receiving end of cyber-attacks. But if we work together we have both the tools and motivation to turn this around. That’s why Trend Micro has been a long-time partner and advocate of the great work HITRUST is doing to help improve...

Gary McGraw on BSIMM8 and Software Security

Software security pioneer Gary McGraw talks to Mike Mimoso about the latest iteration of the Building Security In Maturity Model BSIMM report. BSIMM is a snapshot of how some of the world’s biggest tech companies and enterprises are handling secure development practices. Gary talks about some of...

September 5, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “The Office” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 5, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black’s Cb Defen...

Introducing WhiteBear

As a part of our Kaspersky APT Intelligence Reporting subscription, customers received an update in mid-February 2017 on some interesting APT activity that we called WhiteBear. Much of the contents of that report are reproduced here. WhiteBear is a parallel project or second stage of the Skipper...

CVE-2014-8183

It was found that foreman in Satellite 6 did not properly enforce access controls on certain resources. An attacker with access to the API and knowledge of the resource name can access resources in other organizations...

North Korea Hit By Konni and Inexsmar Malware After Missile Tests

By Uzair Amir An unknown hacking group has been targeting organizations in North This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: North Korea Hit By Konni and Inexsmar Malware After Missile Tests...

Security Analysis with SonarQube Plugin

SonarQube Figure 1: The SonarQube dashboard lists security vulnerabilities detected by RIPS code analysis. Global organizations use SonarQube to concentrate different quality analysis tools in one place for easy management, maintenance, and learning potential of findings. Seasoned developers are...

Further Advances the State of Cyber Threat Information Sharing into Cyber Threat Management and Response

Healthcare organizations HCOs are not immune to large-scale cyberattacks, as evident by the most recent attacks WannaCry and Petya. In fact, HCOs are an attractive target for hackers because of the immense amount of personally identifiable information housed in their systems. The industry is wide...

Spring Dragon – Updated Activity

Spring Dragon is a long running APT actor that operates on a massive scale. The group has been running campaigns, mostly in countries and territories around the South China Sea, since as early as 2012. The main targets of Spring Dragon attacks are high profile governmental organizations and...

CVE-2017-7535

foreman before version 1.16.0 is vulnerable to a stored XSS in organizations/locations assignment to hosts. Exploiting this requires a user to actively assign hosts to an organization that contains html in its name which is visible to the user prior to taking action...

Petya the Great and why *they* don’t patch vulnerabilities

I really like this. Just imagine. Quiet, routine, everyday Vulnerability Management process in organizations: scanning-patching, scanning-patching, scanning-patching… And then. Suddenly! PEEETYYA!!! And at very same moment everything changes. People from different companies start to communicate...

NIST Releases New Digital Identity Guidelines

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has released the Digital Identity Guidelines document suite. The four-volume suite offers technical guidelines for organizations that use digital identity services. US-CERT encourages information security practitioners in industry, governmen...

For the APT organization to use the EPS vulnerabilities in and mention the right vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In 2015, FireEye released a Microsoft Office EPS（Encapsulated PostScript in the two vulnerability details. Wherein, a is 0day vulnerabilities, one in the attack a few weeks before playing the patch. Recently, FireEye and Microsoft Office products in the discovery of three new 0day vulnerabilities...

WannaCry and the Executive Order

Last week, The White House released its long awaited Executive Order EO, Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure, ironically enough during the same week we experienced the largest single ransomware attack that, by some estimates, has affected more than...

Leaked NSA Exploit Spreading Ransomware Worldwide

A ransomware attack running rampant through Europe today is spreading via an exploit leaked in the most recent ShadowBrokers dump. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said the attackers behind today’s outbreak of WannaCry ransomware are using EternalBlue, the codename for an exploit made public by the...

Teaming Up with HITRUST to Raise Cybersecurity Standards in Healthcare

From cash-hungry hackers to state-sponsored spies and careless insiders, there’s no shortage of cyber threats facing healthcare organizations HCOs today. At Trend Micro, we’ve been protecting organizations operating in the industry for years, but the challenges facing these customers show no sign...

xDedic Market Spilling Over With School Servers, PCs

Nearly two-thirds of servers and PCs peddled on the xDedic underground marketplace belong to schools and universities, and most are based in the United States. In a recent analysis of xDedic, Flashpoint found that besides the education sector, PC and servers tied to healthcare and legal firms mak...