ZINC attacks against security researchers

In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. The campaign originally came to our attention after Microsoft Defender for Endpoint detected an attack in progress. Observed targeting includes pen testers, private offensive securit...

Building a Zero Trust business plan

These past six months have been a remarkable time of transformation for many IT organizations. With the forced shift to remote work, IT professionals have had to act quickly to ensure people continue working productively from home—in some cases bringing entire organizations online over a weekend...

Announcing the Zero Trust Deployment Center

Organizations have been digitally transforming at warp speed in response to the way businesses operate and how people work. As a result, digital security teams have been under immense pressure to ensure their environments are resilient and secure. Many have turned to a Zero Trust security model t...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Peak, Plateau, or Plummet? Cyber security trends that are here to stay and how to detect and recover from ransomware attacks

The rapidity of change in the cyberthreat landscape can be daunting for today’s cyber defense teams. Just as they perfect the ability to block one attack method, adversaries change their approach. Tools like artificial intelligence and machine learning allow us to pivot quickly, however, knowing...

How To Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster with Wallarm – Running in Production Mode – part 3 of 3

The previous two blog articles in this series describe how to set up Wallarm Ingress controller and configure it so that it can properly allow or block traffic from trusted or suspicious/malicious IP addresses. This is essential to the functionality of Wallarm’s Ingress controller but it isn’t...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Cybersecurity & IoT: New risks and how to minimize them

Recently, Microsoft announced our acquisition of CyberX, a comprehensive network-based security platform with continuous threat monitoring and analytics. This solution builds upon our commitment to provide a unified IoT security solution that addresses connected devices spread across both...

Full Operational Shutdown—another cybercrime case from the Microsoft Detection and Response Team

Recently, we published our first case report 001: …And Then There Were Six by the Microsoft Detection and Response Team DART. We received significant positive response from our customers and colleagues and our team has been getting inquiries asking for more reports. We are glad to share the DART...

Zero Trust framework to enable remote work

Zero Trust Assessment tool now live! With such a large influx of employees working remotely, many of the traditional network-based security controls are unable to protect the organization. For many organizations, there are two options: route all remote traffic through a strained legacy network...

Quick wins—single sign-on (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

With Multi-Factor Authentication MFA and single sign-on SSO being a few of the most effective countermeasures against modern threats, organizations should consider a Cloud Identity as a Service IDaaS, and MFA solution, like Azure Active Directory AD. Here are seven benefits: 1. Azure AD is simple...

Afternoon Cyber Tea—The State of Cybersecurity: How did we get here? What does it mean?

Every year the number and scale of cyberattacks grows. Marc Goodman, a global security strategist, futurist, and author of the book, Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It, thinks a lot about how we got here and what it means, which is why he w...

FusionPBX Operator Panel exec.php Command Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'FusionPBX Operator Panel exec.php Command Execution', 'Description' = %q This module exploits an authenticated command injection vulnerability in...

Improve security with a Zero Trust access model

Zero Trust is a security model that I believe can begin to turn the tide in the cybersecurity battles. Traditional perimeter-based network security has proved insufficient because it assumes that if a user is inside the corporate perimeter, they can be trusted. We’ve learned that this isn't true...

ChaosPro 3.1 SEH Buffer Overflow

!C:\Python27\python.exe Title : ChaosPro 3.1 Twitter : @securitychops Blog Post : https://securitychops.com/2019/08/24/retro-exploit-series-episode-one-chaospro-3-1.html our egg! payload = "T00WT00W" adjust the stack from 00F2FFA6 to 00F2FFA8 payload += "\x83\xC4\x02" the payload payload +=...

Microsoft Releases Security Updates to Address Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Microsoft has released security updates to address two remote code execution vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182, in the following operating systems: Windows 7 SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows Server 2012 Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 10 Windows Server 2016 Windows...

WordPress WPGraphQL 0.2.3 Authentication Bypass / Information Disclosure

!/usr/bin/env python Author: Simone Quatrini of Pen Test Partners CVEs: 2019-9879, 2019-9880, 2019-9881 Tested on Wordpress 5.1.1 and wp-graphql 0.2.3 https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/pwning-wordpress-graphql/ import argparse import requests import base64 import json import sys parse...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability with Diffie-Hellman ciphers may affect Juniper EX Series Network Switches sold by IBM for use in IBM Products (CVE-2015-4000)

Summary The Logjam Attack on TLS connections using the Diffie-Hellman DH key exchange protocol affects Juniper EX Series Network Switches sold by IBM for use in IBM Products. Vulnerability Details Summary The Logjam Attack on TLS connections using the Diffie-Hellman DH key exchange protocol affec...

Happy 16th Birthday TaoSecurity Blog

Today, 8 January 2019, is TaoSecurity Blog's 16th birthday! This is also my 3,041st blog post. I wrote my first post on 8 January 2003 while working as an incident response consultant for Foundstone. Here are a few statistics on the blog. Blogger started providing statistics in May 2010, so these...

Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Giant Squid

Lessons learned. 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...

Electron WebPreferences - Remote Code Execution

Electron WebPreferences - Remote Code Execution CVE-2018-15685 - Electron WebPreferences Remote Code Execution This is a minimal Electron application with a POC for CVE-2018-15685. A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered affecting apps with the ability to open nested child windo...

Vote for Malwarebytes Labs: European Security Blogger Awards 2018

It's nearly time for Infosec Europe 2018, and that means it's also time to consider voting for your favourite security blogs, podcasts, video channels, and more for the upcoming European Security Blogger Awards. Thanks to your generous votes, we've been fortunate enough to pick up the award for...