Root Cause Analyses for 0-day In-the-Wild Exploits

Posted by Maddie Stone, Project Zero When a 0-day is exploited in the wild AND it is detected, we need to use that as an opportunity to learn as much as possible about the vulnerability and the exploit if we hope to make 0-day hard. One of the main methods to do that is to perform a root cause...

Zomato: Availing Zomato gold by using a random third-party `wallet_id`

We received a report from @pandaaaa wherein he demonstrated a way to avail Zomato Gold membership using random Zomato User's wallet. The report was triaged and rewarded with critical severity with a CVSS score of 9.3. It was considered critical since a random user's wallet could have been used fo...

[Guide] Finding Best Security Outsourcing Alternative for Your Organization

As cyberattacks continue to proliferate in volume and increase in sophistication, many organizations acknowledge that some part of their breach protection must be outsourced, introducing a million-dollar question of what type of service to choose form. Today, Cynet releases the Security Outsourci...

TFW you-get-really-excited-you-patch-diffed-a-0day-used-in-the-wild-but-then-find-out-it-is-the-wrong-vuln

Posted by Maddie Stone, Project Zero INTRODUCTION I’m really interested in 0-days exploited in the wild and what we, the security community, can learn about them to make 0-day hard. I explained some of Project Zero’s ideas and goals around in-the-wild 0-days in a November blog post. On December’s...

Report to Your Management with the Definitive ‘IR Management and Reporting’ presentation Template

The realistic approach to security is that incidents occur. While ideally, the CISO would want to prevent all of them, in practice some will succeed to a certain degree—making the ability to efficiently manage an incident response process a mandatory skill for any CISO. Moreover, apart from the...

Information disclosure

In the Screen Lock, there is a possible information disclosure due to an unusual root cause. In certain circumstances, the setting to hide the unlock pattern can be ignored. Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10Android ID: A-110941092...

Trend Micro Named A Leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms

Leadership. It’s a weighty term, although frequently it is used too lightly and all too often it’s a self-declared position. We believe, leaders can come and go, and leadership can be fleeting depending on the factors for long term success. It is for all these reasons, that we are proud, not only...

HackerOne: Custom Field Attributes may be created and updated for customers with Custom Field Trial enabled

The Custom Field feature is currently only available for customers on the Enterprise product edition. A trial period can be given by enabling the custom-fields-trial feature for programs who are not on that product edition yet. However, when enabling this feature, the incorrect ordering of an ACL...

The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion

Posted by Ivan Fratric, Google Project Zero Intro Some time ago, I noticed a tweet about an externally reported vulnerability in Skia graphics library used by Chrome, Firefox and Android, among others. The vulnerability caught my attention for several reasons: Firstly, I looked at Skia before...

Congressional Report on the 2017 Equifax Data Breach

The US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has just released a comprehensive report on the 2017 Equifax hack. It's a great piece of writing, with a detailed timeline, root cause analysis, and lessons learned. Lance Spitzner also commented on this. Here is my...

HackerOne: Corrupted Authorization header can cause logs not to be ingested properly in ████████

HackerOne ingests different logs in ██████, one of them being nginx access logs from our load balancers. The default log format of our load balancer configuration is shown below. As can be seen in the format, the HTTP user specified in the Authorization header $remoteuser is placed between the...

Mass WordPress compromises redirect to tech support scams

Content Management Systems CMSes such as WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla are under a constant barrage of fire. Earlier this year, we detailed several waves of attacks against Drupal, also known as Drupalgeddon, pushing browser-based miners and various social engineering threats. During the past few...

Vulnerability hunting with Semmle QL, part 1

Previously on this blog, we’ve talked about how MSRC automates the root cause analysis of vulnerabilities reported and found. After doing this, our next step is variant analysis: finding and investigating any variants of the vulnerability. It’s important that we find all such variants and patch...

Vulnerability hunting with Semmle QL, part 1

Previously on this blog, we’ve talked about how MSRC automates the root cause analysis of vulnerabilities reported and found. After doing this, our next step is variant analysis: finding and investigating any variants of the vulnerability. It’s important that we find all such variants and patch...

IMPORTANT: Web blocking / RAM usage announcement

On January 27, we published a protection update that caused connection issues for many of our customers. As a side effect of the web protection blocks, the product also spiked memory usage and possibly caused a crash. We have triaged this issue and pushed a protection update that resolves it. For...

What is the Cb Predictive Security Cloud (PSC)?

In today’s new reality, the device, and the people operating those devices, have taken center stage. Whether in your office or at a Starbucks, your endpoints now have access to some of your organization’s most sensitive data via cloud services, such as Salesforce.com, Office 365, and the Google...

Introducing Cb ThreatSight: Managed Threat Hunting and Triage

As the global threat landscape accelerates, security teams are always worried something will slip through. Many companies lack the security professionals needed to investigate and respond to the flood of cybersecurity incidents they face. Others don’t even understand the threats they face — thoug...

Excerpts from Preparing for NGAV at Scale: Fastest Investigation & Response

Carbon Black recently published a guide to help enterprises gauge their readiness in their initial search for next-generation antivirus, or NGAV; this is an excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps...

Ayukov NFTP FTP Client Stack Buffer Overflow Analysis

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ayukov NFTPD 2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Recent assessments: wchen-r7 at September 12, 2019 6:08pm UTC reported: Details Ayukov is an FTP client that was written by Sergey Ayukov back in 1994. Development stopped in 2011, and...

Carbon Black’s Vision for the Predictive Security Cloud

Earlier today, during a keynote address at Cb Connect, I unveiled our vision for the Cb Predictive Security Cloud™️. The first of its kind, the Cb Predictive Security Cloud is an extensible, cloud-based cyber security platform that helps anticipate and prevent future and unknown cyberattacks. The...