New Surface PCs enable virtualization-based security (VBS) by default to empower customers to do more, securely

VBS and HVCI-enabled devices help protect from advanced attacks Escalation of privilege attacks are a malicious actor’s best friend, and they often target sensitive information stored in memory. These kinds of attacks can turn a minor user mode compromise into a full compromise of your OS and...

Sarenka - OSINT Tool - Data From Services Like Shodan, Censys Etc. In One Place

SARENKA is an Open Source Intelligence OSINT tool which helps you obtaining and understanding Attack Surface. The main goal is to gathering infromation from search engines for Internet-connected devices https://censys.io/ , https://www.shodan.io/. It scraps data about Common Vulnerabilities and...

6 Questions Attackers Ask Before Choosing an Asset to Exploit

In the past decade or so, we’ve seen a massive shift toward the cloud. The COVID-19 pandemic and associated pivot to remote work has only accelerated this cloud trend, forcing blue-teamers to be more agile to protect their attack surfaces. While defenders are adapting to support cloud-based...

A week in security (November 23 – November 29)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we talked with Chris Boyd about charities that track you online. We also looked back at Zoom, and wondered whether its any safer months after its first vulnerability was reported. We talked about how Apples security is hampering the detection of potentially unwante...

GWTMap - Tool to help map the attack surface of Google Web Toolkit

GWTMap is a tool to help map the attack surface of Google Web Toolkit GWT based applications. The purpose of this tool is to facilitate the extraction of any service method endpoints buried within a modern GWT application's obfuscated client-side code, and attempt to generate example GWT-RPC...

Built-in Runtime Security for Containers

Security teams struggle with visibility into behaviors inside their running containers. Qualys is today announcing general availability of Container Runtime Security CRS to provide industry-leading visibility for running containers using an approach that is container-engine agnostic and layered...

SDL: heap-based buffer overflow in SDL_FillRect in video/SDL_surface.c

SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow in SDLFillRect in video/SDLsurface.c...

kernel: mounting a crafted ext4 filesystem image, performing some operations, and unmounting can lead to a use-after-free in ext4_put_super in fs/ext4/super.c

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4unlink function. An attacker could corrupt memory or escalate privileges when deleting a file from a recently unmounted specially crafted ext4 filesystem, including local, USB, and iSCSI...

Client-Side Protection is Key to Web Application Security

The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP Foundation defines script attacks as a "type of injection in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites."1 From the perspective of the user, malicious code is coming from trusted websites. Recently popularized by...

GitDorker - A Tool To Scrape Secrets From GitHub Through Usage Of A Large Repository Of Dorks

GitDorker is a tool that utilizes the GitHub Search API and an extensive list of GitHub dorks that I've compiled from various sources to provide an overview of sensitive information stored on github given a search query. The Primary purpose of GitDorker is to provide the user with a clean and...

Getting around the cybersecurity talent shortage

More remote workers mean larger attack surfaces, and as cyber criminals take advantage of the rush to provision a remote workforce, the pain of the cybersecurity professionals shortage has become acute. Last year, the ISC2 Workforce Study identified a shortage of 561,000 cybersecurity professiona...

CVE-2019-2194

In SurfaceFlinger::createLayer of SurfaceFlinger.cpp, there is a possible arbitrary code execution due to improper casting. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions:...

CVE-2020-16898: Bad Neighbor | McAfee Blogs

ARCHIVED STORY CVE-2020-16898: “Bad Neighbor” Steve Povolny · OCT 13, 2020 CVE-2020-16898: “Bad Neighbor” CVSS Score: 8.8 Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C Overview Today, Microsoft announced a critical vulnerability in the Windows IPv6 stack, which allows an...

CVE-2020-16898: Bad Neighbor | McAfee Blogs

ARCHIVED STORY CVE-2020-16898: “Bad Neighbor” Steve Povolny · OCT 13, 2020 CVE-2020-16898: “Bad Neighbor” CVSS Score: 8.8 Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C Overview Today, Microsoft announced a critical vulnerability in the Windows IPv6 stack, which allows an...

Insecure RDP

There are active attack campaigns as of October 2020 targeting RDP servers without multi-factor authentication enabled. Recent assessments: zeroSteiner at October 09, 2020 6:36pm UTC reported: Over the past couple of years 2018-2020 attacks against RDP have become more and more common. Recent...

CVE-2020-15675

When processing surfaces, the lifetime may outlive a persistent buffer leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox 81...

SDL: heap-based buffer overflow in SDL_FillRect in video/SDL_surface.c

SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow in SDLFillRect in video/SDLsurface.c...

Applied ThreadFix: Seeding Your Application Portfolio with OWASP Amass

OWASP Amass is a great tool for asset discovery and enterprise attack surface mapping. It pulls data from a number of different data sources and identifies potential hosts and applications associated with organizations, domains, IP CIDRs and other identifiers. As we have noted, having a solid...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15675

When processing surfaces, the lifetime may outlive a persistent buffer leading to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox 81...

Applied ThreadFix: Application Portfolio Tracking

Asset management is a serious issue across the information security space. A very common challenge we see for organizations running an application security program is just getting an idea of what applications they have available and what infrastructure has been deployed to support them. You cant...