Modified Zyklon and plugins from India

IntroductionStreams of malicious emails Talos inspects every day usually consist of active spamming campaigns for various ransomware families, phishing campaigns and the common malware family suspects such as banking Trojans and bots.. It is however often more interesting to analyze campaigns...

Eternal blue-advanced version struck--the eternal stone integrated 7 vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In WannaCry crazy spread towards the end of last week three 5.17 security researcher Miroslav Stampar（the Government of Croatia CERT members, Sqlmap one of the creators of in his build of SMB honeypot, the discovery of new worms is through SMB vulnerability propagation. Researcher Stampar honeypo...

Cisco Coverage for Adylkuzz, Uiwix, and EternalRocks

When the WannaCry attack was launched a little over a week ago, it was one of the first large scale attacks leveraging the data that was leaked by the Shadow Brokers. At the time the real concern was how quickly we would begin to see other threats leverage the same vulnerabilities. Over the past...

EternalRocks Worm Spreads Seven NSA SMB Exploits

Someone has stitched together seven of the Windows SMB exploits leaked by the ShadowBrokers, creating a worm that has been spreading through networks since at least the first week of May. Researcher Miroslav Stampar, a member of the Croatian government’s CERT, captured a sample of the worm last...

Jaya Baloo on WannaCry and Defending Against Advanced Attacks

Jaya Baloo, CISO of KPN, the Netherlands’ leading telecommunications provider, talks to Mike Mimoso about the WannaCry ransomware outbreak and how large network providers and enterprises must contend with advanced attacks. Baloo will be speaking at the upcoming Borderless Cyber USA conference in...

PDF File Containing Ransomware Downloader

A malicious PDF file containing a downloader was observed as part of Locky ransomware campaign. A remote attacker could send spam e-mails including those PDF files and convince users to open embedded links in them. This would allow the malicious code to run and infect the target system...

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...

Available Tools Making Dent in WannaCry Encryption

Tools are beginning to emerge that can be used to start the process of recovering files encrypted by WannaCry on some Windows systems. This takes on extra urgency because today marks one week from the initial outbreak, and files encrypted during that first wave are on the clock and close to being...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 15, 2017

“Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There’s no crying! THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!” Those famous words from Jimmy Dugan portrayed by Tom Hanks in the 1992 movie A League of their Own, ring true in the world of baseball. Unfortunately, in the cyber security world, there has been some crying this...

WannaCry Ransomware

Criminals go where the money is, and cybercriminals are no exception. And right now, the money is in ransomware. It's a simple scam. Encrypt the victim's hard drive, then extract a fee to decrypt it. The scammers can't charge too much, because they want the victim to pay rather than give up on th...

Visualizing WannaCry & Shadow Brokers with Dashboards

To assess infections from WannaCry ransomware and threat exposure from the Shadow Brokers vulnerabilities across an entire IT environment, it's helpful to visualize your exposure via dynamic dashboards. Using Qualys AssetView and ThreatPROTECT, I created a single-pane incident response dashboard...

WannaCry Ransomware Decryption Tool Released; Unlock Files Without Paying Ransom

If your PC has been infected by WannaCry – the ransomware that wreaked havoc across the world last Friday – you might be lucky to get your locked files back without paying the ransom of $300 to the cyber criminals. Adrien Guinet, a French security researcher from Quarkslab, has discovered a way t...

EternalBlue: Metasploit Module for MS17-010

This week's release of Metasploit includes a scanner and exploit module for the EternalBlue vulnerability, which made headlines a couple of weeks ago when hacking group, the Shadow Brokers, disclosed a trove of alleged NSA exploits. Included among them, EternalBlue, exploits MS17-010, a Windows S...

Protecting Your Small Business From WannaCry

May 12, 2017 saw the world’s first ever worm-based ransomware attack, WannaCry. Typically ransomware spreads via email as spam and phishing attacks, and relies on human intervention to initiate the infection. However, WannaCry is different in that it combines ransomware with a recently published...

Nextcloud: Email Spoofing Vulnerability from nextcloud.

Hi nextcloud, Here is Shaifullah Shaon BlackEyE, An Ethical Hacker. a white hat cyber security researcher from Bangladesh reporting a serious 3'rd ranking in OWASP security vulnerability on your system. There is an Email Spoofing Vulnerability from nextcloud. Steps to reproduce: 1 Go to...

Siemens, Bayer Expected to Patch Medical Devices Hit By WannaCry

It was initially thought just Windows machines were vulnerable but it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that medical devices and industrial control systems were subjected to the perils of this weekend’s WannaCry ransomware outburst as well. Over the past few days the Department of Homeland...

BSA-2017-338

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-338 Component : N/A Revision : 1.0: Final A ransomware calledWannaCryinfected computers in several countries. Computers that became infected had not been patched. Microsoft released a security bulletin on March 14th, 2017, titled Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-01...

Next Payload Could be Much Worse Than WannaCry

No one should be letting their guard down now that the WannaCry ransomware attacks have been relatively contained. Experts intimately involved with analyzing the malware and worldwide attacks urge quite the opposite, warning today that there’s nothing stopping attackers from using the available N...

Ransomware: What Are the Bad Guys After and How Do I Stop Them?

If the past few days of WannaCry ransomware activity have taught us anything it’s that cybercriminals pose a clear and present danger to organizations and their customers all over the world. But have you ever wondered exactly what the bad guys are after when they launch their online attacks at yo...