MAL-2025-34573 Malicious code in tau-encode-web-sed-small (npm)

The package tau-encode-web-sed-small was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-40204 Malicious code in yaml-psi-tau-void-quick (npm)

The package yaml-psi-tau-void-quick was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-22665 Malicious code in hot-decrypt-private-orchestrate-tau (npm)

The package hot-decrypt-private-orchestrate-tau was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-17247 Malicious code in code-cloud-zeta-cold-tau (npm)

The package code-cloud-zeta-cold-tau was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-20569 Malicious code in finally-parse-star-tau-zero (npm)

The package finally-parse-star-tau-zero was found to contain malicious code...

Effective Red-Teaming of Policy-Adherent Agents

Task-oriented LLM-based agents are increasingly used in domains with strict policies, such as refund eligibility or cancellation rules. The challenge lies in ensuring that the agent consistently adheres to these rules and policies, appropriately refusing any request that would violate them, while...

CVE-2010-3382

tauex in Tuning and Analysis Utilities TAU 2.16.4 places a zero-length directory name in the LDLIBRARYPATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory...

CLSA-2024-1732196985 Fix CVE(s): CVE-2020-27765

SECURITY UPDATE: Division by zero vulnerability in segment.c - debian/patches/CVE-2020-27765.patch: Fix averagetau calculation by multiplying instead of dividing by numbernodes in OptimalTau function to prevent incorrect segmentation output - CVE-2020-27765...

SUSE CVE-2010-3382

tauex in Tuning and Analysis Utilities TAU 2.16.4 places a zero-length directory name in the LDLIBRARYPATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory...

TAU Threat Analysis: Relations to Hakbit Ransomware

See part one of TAU's Hakbit Ransomware analysis here. Many blue team defenders out there will attest to the fact that ransomware is on the rise, and that ransomware doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon. Ransomware is only one of the numerous types of commodity-based emerging threats whi...

CVE-2019-14033

Multiple Read overflows issue due to improper length check while decoding tau reject/tau accept/detach request/attach reject/attach accept in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wearables in APQ8053, APQ8096,...

VMware Carbon Black TAU Threat Analysis: Shlayer (macOS)

Following our initial reporting of this threat, Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU has continued following the Shlayer family of malware and monitoring changes adopted by this campaign. Although detection by antivirus vendors has improved over the past year, the malware authors continue to...

VMware Carbon Black TAU Threat Research: Visualizing Ransomware with MITRE ATT&CK

If no one had ever heard of ransomware prior to May 2017, then one thing that is fairly certain is that the WannaCry ransomware outbreak unquestionably put ransomware on the security radar, and sent shivers up CISO’s and analysts’ spines for the weeks and months that followed. Only a few weeks...

Active C2 Discovery Using Protocol Emulation Part1 (HYDSEVEN NetWire)

Malware C2 addresses can be an important IOC to detect known threats. In order to obtain C2 information, we first need malware samples which are then analyzed dynamically or statically. However the analysis task is often times not straightforward. Increasingly anti-analysis methods are implemente...

Delta Tau Power PMAC-NC Machine Interface Panel MIP22

Binary data 764742.prm...

Evolving Threat Hunting with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework at CB Connect

Evolving Threat Hunting with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework – Join me at CB Connect San Diego! There are a number of techniques you can use to uncover security gaps leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK matrix. At CB Connect San Diego, our annual user conference June 4-5th, I will speaking on “How to Evolve Yo...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Hunting APT28 Downloaders

Recently the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU analyzed the APT28 downloaders SedUploader and Zebrocy which has been observed over the previous six months. There have been several good publications regarding the code analysis of SedUploader and Zebrocy already 125679. Therefore, in this artic...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification – Recent Emotet Campaign Leverages Phishing, PDFs & Droppers Impersonating Legitimate Applications

This past week, CB ThreatSight analysts were investigating suspicious events in an environment. This customer had installed the CB Defense sensor on a subset of systems in monitor only mode for evaluation. While investigating suspicious events, a CB ThreatSight analyst uncovered a new Emotet...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: New macOS Malware Variant of Shlayer (OSX) Discovered

Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU recently discovered a new variant of a family of macOS malware which was first discovered in February of 2018 by researchers from Intego. TAU has obtained new samples of this malware and observed downloads of the malware from multiple sites, primarily...

Carbon Black TAU & ThreatSight Analysis: GandCrab and Ursnif Campaign

Summary Analysis conducted by Andrew Costis, Cathy Cramer, Emily Miner and Jared Myers. The Carbon Black ThreatSight team observed an interesting campaign over the last month. ThreatSight worked with the Threat Analysis Unit TAU to research the campaign. This report is being released to help...