A week in security (October 1 – 7)

Last week, Malwarebytes welcomed National Cybersecurity Awareness Month by renewing our pledge to do what we do best: offer the best protection for our customers and promote security awareness for all. On Labs, we raised the question of whether it is a good idea to bring your own security or not,...

IC3 Issues Alert on RDP Exploitation

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3, in collaboration with DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has released an alert on cyber threat actors maliciously using legitimate remote administration tools, such as Remote Desktop Protocol RDP. Threat actors identify and exploit vulnerable RDP...

CVE-2017-18347

Incorrect access control in RDP Level 1 on STMicroelectronics STM32F0 series devices allows physically present attackers to extract the device's protected firmware via a special sequence of Serial Wire Debug SWD commands because there is a race condition between full initialization of the SWD...

CVE-2017-18347

Incorrect access control in RDP Level 1 on STMicroelectronics STM32F0 series devices allows physically present attackers to extract the device's protected firmware via a special sequence of Serial Wire Debug SWD commands because there is a race condition between full initialization of the SWD...

CVE-2017-18347

CVE-2017-18347 affects STMicroelectronics STM32F0 series devices; the root cause is a race condition between full SWD interface initialization and flash protection setup, enabling physically present attackers to extract protected firmware via a specific SWD command sequence on Level 1 RDP. The co...

CVE-2017-18347: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Incorrect access control in RDP Level 1 on STMicroelectronics STM32F0 series devices allows physically present attackers to extract the device's protected firmware via a special sequence of Serial Wire Debug SWD commands because there is a race condition between full initialization of the SWD...

PT-2018-6843

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: STMicroelectronics STM32F0 series devices affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to incorrect access control in RDP Level 1, which allows physically present attackers to extract the device's protected firmware via a...

Firework - Leveraging Microsoft Workspaces in a Penetration Test

Firework is a proof of concept tool to interact with Microsoft Workplaces creating valid files required for the provisioning process. The tool also wraps some code from Responder to leverage its ability to capture NetNTLM hashes from a system that provisions a Workplace feed via it. This tool may...

A week in security (August 6 – August 12)

Last week, we published a review of exploit kits, talked about everyday tech that can give you a headache, and showed how to protect RDP access from ransomware. We also published a study on the true cost of cybercrime. Other news: Discovered at Black Hat: WhatsApp "message manipulation" Source: T...

NETworkManager - A Powerful Tool For Managing Networks And Troubleshoot Network Problems

A powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshoot network problems! Features Network Interface - Information, Configure IP-Scanner Port-Scanner Ping Traceroute DNS Lookup Remote Desktop PuTTY SNMP - Get, Walk, Set v1, v2c, v3 Wake on LAN HTTP Headers Subnet Calculator - Calculator, Subnettin...

Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft

Imagine you've gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it's for isn't very valuable. How do you use it? You convince the owners of the password to send you money. I recently saw a spam e-mail that ties the password to a porn site. The...

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...

Organizations Leave Backdoors Open to Cheap Remote Desktop Protocol Attacks

ARCHIVED STORY Organizations Leave Backdoors Open to Cheap Remote Desktop Protocol Attacks By John Fokker · July 11, 2018 Thanks to my colleague Christiaan Beek for his advice and contributions. While researching underground hacker marketplaces, the McAfee Advanced Threat Research team has...

Carbon Black TAU Threat Analysis: Recent Dharma Ransomware Highlights Attackers’ Continued Use of Open-Source Tools

In June of 2018, an organization contacted the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU about a ransomware attack they were currently investigating. TAU team members worked with the firm investigating the incident. After the initial analysis was completed, it became apparent that this network had be...

Microsoft Windows: Client connection encryption level (Remote Desktop Services)

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winrdhostclientencrlevel.nasl 11363 2018-09-12 13:46:05Z emoss $ Check value for Set client connection encryption level Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Microsoft Windows: Service: Remote Desktop Services UserMode Port Redirector

The service SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.109272";...

MITM RDP Connections: Seth

Seth is a tool written in Python and Bash to MitM RDP connections by attempting to downgrade the connection in order to extract clear text credentials. It was developed to raise awareness and educate about the importance of properly configured RDP connections in the context of pentests, workshops...

CVE-2017-2835

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the RDP receive functionality of FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted server response can cause an out-of-bounds write resulting in an exploitable condition. An attacker can compromise the server or use a man in the middle to...

CVE-2017-2835

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CVE-2017-2835

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the RDP receive functionality of FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted server response can cause an out-of-bounds write resulting in an exploitable condition. An attacker can compromise the server or use a man in the middle to...