macOS 18.7.0 Kernel - Local Privilege Escalation

macOS-Kernel-Exploit DISCLAIMER You need to know the KASLR slide to use the exploit. Also SMAP needs to be disabled which means that it's not exploitable on Macs after 2015. These limitations make the exploit pretty much unusable for in-the-wild exploitation but still helpful for security...

New! RFP Template for Selecting EDR/EPP and APT Security

Once upon a time, only big organizations worried about Advanced Persistent Threats. But it soon became obvious that every organization could find itself under fire, regardless of size or industry, and whether as direct targets or collateral damage. Most security decision makers in these...

pt.theeducationjob.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-974455 Security Researcher 0xrocky Helped patch 1796 vulnerabilities Received 7 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 5 recommendations , a holder of 7 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting pt.theeducationjob.com websi...

ACT Platform - Open Platform For Collection And Exchange Of Threat Intelligence Information

Semi-Automated Cyber Threat Intelligence ACT is a research project led by mnemonic as with contributions from the University of Oslo, NTNU, Norwegian Security Authority NSM, KraftCERT and Nordic Financial CERT. The main objective of the ACT project is to develop a platform for cyber threat...

id.thetraveljob.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher garletmarco Helped patch 1540 vulnerabilities Received 4 Coordinated Disclosure badges , a holder of 4 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting id.thetraveljob.com website and its users. Following coordinated and responsible...

Attacking the VM Worker Process

In the past year we invested a lot of time making Hyper-V research more accessible to everyone. Our first blog post, “First Steps in Hyper-V Research”, describes the tools and setup for debugging the hypervisor and examines the interesting attack surfaces of the virtualization stack components. W...

Attacking the VM Worker Process

In the past year we invested a lot of time making Hyper-V research more accessible to everyone. Our first blog post, “First Steps in Hyper-V Research”, describes the tools and setup for debugging the hypervisor and examines the interesting attack surfaces of the virtualization stack components. W...

Are IoT Threats Discussed In The Cybercriminal Underground?

With IoT devices expected to reach tens of billions in the next few years, is it any wonder that cybercriminals are looking for ways to take advantage of this massive attack surface to generate illicit money? A number of Trend Micro researchers from around the globe decided to look into this and...

Introducing the Cognitive Attack Loop and Its 3 Phases

At Carbon Black, we believe that the more insight we have into cybercriminal behavior, the more effective our technology can be at successfully recognizing suspicious activity and combating it. By conducting behavioral threat research, we discover new patterns attackers are using across the kill...

Exploit for Use After Free in Microsoft

CVE-2019-0708 Bluekeep Metasploit module for CVE-2019-0708...

Facebook, Microsoft Challenge Industry to Detect, Prevent ‘Deepfakes’

Facebook, Microsoft and a number of universities have joined forces to sponsor a contest promoting research and development to combat deepfakes, or videos altered through artificial intelligence AI to mislead viewers. The two tech giants—along with the Partnership on AI and academics from Cornell...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Winnti Malware 4.0

Winnti is a family of malware used by multiple Chinese threat actors like APT41. Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU is providing this technical analysis, YARA rules, IOCs and product rules for the research community. Behavioral Summary Winnti malware is installed manually with stolen...

Metasploit HTTP(S) handler DoS

This module exploits the Metasploit HTTPS handler by sending a specially crafted HTTP request that gets added as a resource handler. Resources which come from the external connections are evaluated as RegEx in the handler server. Specially crafted input can trigger Gentle, Soft and Hard DoS. Test...

IoT Security Challenges in a 5G Era: Expert Advice

When it comes to what we can expect with 5G mobile networks, they promise a more IoT friendly ecosystem, with vast improvements over the current capabilities of the 4G. Providing ultra low-latency and exponentially faster throughput along with sensors that will boast a 10-year battery life 5G pav...

Friday Squid Blogging: Why Mexican Jumbo Squid Populations Have Declined

A group of scientists conclude that it's shifting weather patterns and ocean conditions. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Capital One Hacker Also Accused of Hacking 30 More Companies and CryptoJacking

Former Amazon employee Paige Thompson, who was arrested last month in relation to the Capital One data breach, has been accused of hacking not only the U.S. credit card issuer, but also more than 30 other companies. An indictment unsealed on Wednesday revealed that Thompson not just stole data fr...

Study explores clickjacking problem across top Alexa-ranked websites

Clickjacking has been around for a long time, working hand-in-hand with the unwitting person doing the clicking to send them to parts unknown—often at the expense of site owners. Scammers achieve this by hiding the page object the victim thinks they’re clicking on under a layer or layers of...

The Threat of Fake Academic Research

Interesting analysis of the possibility, feasibility, and efficacy of deliberately fake scientific research, something I had previously speculated about...

Apple Fixes iOS Flaw That Opened iPhones to Jailbreaks

Apple has released an emergency patch fixing a kernel vulnerability – for the second time – after it was accidentally unpatched in iOS 12.4. The flaw CVE-2019-8605, a use-after-free issue existing in the kernel, could enable a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with system privileges...

A week in security (August 19 – 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we reported on the presence of Magecart on a type of poker software; outlined how the Key Negotiation of Bluetooth KNOB attack works; followed the money on a Bitcoin sextortion campaign; looked back at DEF CON 27; and reported on continuing ransomware attacks on...