SANS Institute: Hackers Paint a Bullseye on Your Employees and Endpoints

End users and their devices are right smack in the center of the battle between enterprise InfoSec teams and malicious hackers, and it’s not hard to see why. When compromised, connected endpoints — desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets — offer intruders major entry points into corporate network...

Microsoft Word vulnerability: hackers can use the automatic update link to install the malicious software-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to foreign media news, the SANS Internet Center a freelance security consultant and Handler in Microsoft Word, found a very interesting vulnerability that allows an attacker to abuse the Word program to automatically update the link function. This is one of the default start function,...

ShadowBrokers' Windows Zero-Days Already Patched

Hours after what was thought to be a damaging release of NSA hacking tools for Windows systems, Microsoft quelled some anxiety with a late-night statement on Friday that most of the vulnerabilities disclosed by the ShadowBrokers had already been patched. The biggest surprise was that the most...

Apache Struts 2 Exploits Installing Cerber Ransomware

Attackers are attempting to exploit the recent Apache Struts vulnerability on Windows servers and the payload is a variant of the Cerber ransomware. The SANS Internet Storm Center on Thursday said it has seen numerous attempts during the past month to exploit the vulnerability in this way. The fl...

Microsoft Waits for Patch Tuesday to Fix SMB Zero Day

Microsoft will not rush out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability disclosed on Wednesday in the Windows implementation of the Server Message Block protocol. Researcher Laurent Gaffie announced in a tweet, below, that he’d found a zero-day vulnerability in SMBv3 and released a...

Experts Warn of Novel PDF-based Phishing Scam

The SANS Internet Storm Center published a warning on Wednesday about an active phishing campaign that utilizes PDF attachments in a novel ploy to harvest email credentials from victims. According to the SANS bulletin, the email has the subject line “Assessment document” and the body contains a...

Cyber Attack Knocks Nearly a Million Routers Offline

Mirai Botnet is getting stronger and more notorious each day that passes by. The reason: Insecure Internet-of-things Devices. Last month, the Mirai botnet knocked the entire Internet offline for a few hours, crippling some of the world's biggest and most popular websites. Now, more than 900,000...

BlackNurse Low-Volume DoS Attack Targets Firewalls

A type of denial of service attack relevant in the 1990s has resurfaced with surprising potency against modern-day firewalls. Dubbed a BlackNurse attack, the technique leverages a low-volume Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP -based attack on vulnerable firewalls made by Cisco, Palo Alto,...

Nuclear, Angler Exploit Kit Activity Has Disappeared

Criminal hackers are fickle about their attack vectors. You need to look no further for evidence of this than their constant migration from one exploit kit to another. And while there is an expansive menu of exploit kits, attackers do seem to congregate around a precious few. Researchers who stud...

Persistent EITest Malware Campaign Jumps from Angler to Neutrino

A two-year-old EITest malware campaign is still going strong, fueled by the fact it has shifted its distribution technique over time. Now, researchers at the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, are reporting EITest is morphing again based on analysis of the malware campaign conducted earlier...

Badlock Bug in Samba SMB Protocol

Despite the Badlock hype machine cranked up high, we don’t know much about this impending soul-crushing vulnerability other than it could be bad, it could be in the Windows Server Message Block and it already has its own requisite logo and website. Nonetheless, we have a little more than two week...

HackerOne: External links should use rel="noopener" or use the redirect service

This is a rather low severity one and a successful exploitation relies on unlikely user interaction as well as the ability to control the HTML output of an remote host. Furthermore it is a kinda new hardening features in some browsers. Though one can work around this using "noreferrer" which is...

Gratipay: Vulnerable to clickjacking

Reproduction steps: 1.Open URL :https://grtp.co/ 2.put the url in the below code of iframe Clickjacking GRTP Website is vulnerable to clickjacking! 3.Observe that site is getting displayed in Iframe Impact: By using Clickjacking technique, an attacker hijack's click's meant for one page and route...

Joomla Joins WordPress As TeslaCrypt Ransomware Target

Exploit kits infecting thousands of WordPress websites are setting their sights on the open-source content management system Joomla in a new campaign spotted by a researcher at the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center. “The group behind the WordPress ‘admedia’ campaign is now apparently targeti...

SpiderFoot v2.6.1 - Open Source Intelligence Automation

SpiderFoot is an open source intelligence automation tool. Its goal is to automate the process of gathering intelligence about a given target. Purpose There are three main areas where SpiderFoot can be useful: 1. If you are a pen-tester, SpiderFoot will automate the reconnaisance stage of the tes...

Angler Exploit Kit Spreading Cryptowall 4.0

As expected, it didn’t take long for one of the most popular exploit kits, Angler, to start spreading the latest iteration of Cryptowall ransomware. A drive-by campaign that uses a one-two punch to drop Cryptowall 4.0 has been observed in the wild this week, according to researchers at Heimdal...

How to Build a Successful Incident Response Plan

The fight to protect your company’s data isn’t for the faint of heart. As an embattled IT warrior, with more systems, apps, and users to support than ever before, keeping everything up and running is a battle in itself. When it comes to preventing the worst-case scenario from happening, you need...

XcodeGhost iOS App Malware Contained

Concern over the so-called XcodeGhost malware has put the security of Apple’s App Store on the front page. While the App Store was not hacked, attackers did manage to append malicious code to a number of popular apps—most of those developed in China—and find a loophole in Apple’s code-scanning to...

Spam Campaign Continuing to Serve Up Malicious .js Files

A malicious spam campaign that’s been doling out zipped Javascript .js files remains an issue, the SANS Internet Storm Center warns. The campaign was spotted earlier this year, but Brad Duncan, a handler for the site and researcher with Rackspace’s information security operations center, claims...

Cybercrime Group Switches from Angler Exploit Kit to Neutrino

A prominent cybercrime actor or group has been kicking the tires on the Neutrino Exploit Kit to move ransomware and other malware, the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center reported today. Neutrino is a tier below the prolific Angler Exploit Kit, which is frequently at the heart of new attacks,...