Design/Logic Flaw

In SecureWorks Red Cloak Windows Agent before 2.0.7.9, a local user can bypass the generation of telemetry alerts by removing NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM permissions from a file. This is limited in scope to the collection of process-execution telemetry, for executions against specific files where the...

CVE-2019-19620

In SecureWorks Red Cloak Windows Agent before 2.0.7.9, a local user can bypass the generation of telemetry alerts by removing NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM permissions from a file. This is limited in scope to the collection of process-execution telemetry, for executions against specific files where the...

CVE-2019-19620

CVE-2019-19620 affects SecureWorks Red Cloak Windows Agent prior to 2.0.7.9. The issue is a local-privilege-like bypass where a local user can circumvent generation of telemetry alerts by removing NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM permissions from a file, specifically impacting process-execution telemetry for ...

Analysis of LooCipher, a New Ransomware Family Observed This Year

ARCHIVED STORY Analysis of LooCipher, a New Ransomware Family Observed This Year By ATR Operational Intelligence Team · December 05, 2019 Co-authored by Marc RiveroLopez. Initial Discovery This year seems to again be the year for ransomware. Notorious attacks were made using ransomware and new...

Nuclear Satcoms

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident in 2011 has led to safety changes that may have an interesting knock-on effect on reactor security. Loss of telemetry during the flooding, as a result of the subsequent loss of power, made assessment of the incident hard to manage. Critical data about the...

SYS.2.2.3.A25

Ziel des Bausteins SYS.2.2.3 ist der Schutz von Informationen, die durch und auf Windows 10-Clients verarbeiten werden. Die Standard-Anforderung SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective rig...

SYS.2.2.3.A4

Ziel des Bausteins SYS.2.2.3 ist der Schutz von Informationen, die durch und auf Windows 10-Clients verarbeiten werden. Die Basis-Anforderung SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right...

Microsoft’s 4 principles for an effective security operations center

The Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center CDOC fields trillions of security signals every day. How do we identify and respond to the right threats? One thing that won’t surprise you: we leverage artificial intelligence AI, machine learning, and automation to narrow the focus. But technology i...

Sophisticated Spy Kit Targets Russians with Rare GSM Plugin

A sophisticated cyberespionage platform called Attor has come to light, sporting an unusual capability for fingerprinting mobile devices as part of its attacks on government and diplomatic victims. According to researchers at ESET, Attor, which has flown under the radar since at least 2013, also...

Operational Technology Networks or OT

Operational Technology Networks or OT Notes: It’s mixing up OT with maritime, so probably isn’t suitable as is. The first section is really good, very relevant. We can use all of that. Once we get in to NMEA data, then it goes off topic. I suggest: Network equipment such as the Scalance Then a...

Using MixMode and Carbon Black to Spot a Watering Hole Attack

For those not familiar with watering hole attacks, they are attacks on a specific place—such as a restaurant—that many people visit. They generally involve malicious code being injected into an iframe on the company’s website. In the case of a restaurant, for example, the online menu would be a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc29

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc30

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc31

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

Rash of Exploits Targets Critical vBulletin RCE Bug

A critical remote code execution RCE bug affecting default 5.x versions of vBulletin CVE-2019-16759 is being actively exploited in the wild, allowing unauthenticated attackers to take control of web hosts. A zero-day proof-of-concept code was anonymously published on Monday, ahead of vBulletin...

Hello! My name is Dtrack

Our investigation into the Dtrack RAT actually began with a different activity. In the late summer of 2018, we discovered ATMDtrack, a piece of banking malware targeting Indian banks. Further analysis showed that the malware was designed to be planted on the victim's ATMs, where it could read and...

PT-2019-12495 · Eclipse +1 · Eclipse Mosquitto +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Eclipse Mosquitto versions 1.6.0 through 1.6.4 Description: A use after free error occurs when an MQTT v5 client connects to the affected Eclipse Mosquitto versions, sets a last will and testament, a will delay interval, and a session expiry...

ThreatList: Apple Adware, Phishing, APT Attacks Threaten macOS Users

While macOS is often touted as “safer” on the cybersecurity front compared to Windows-based systems, cybercriminals are in fact increasingly targeting Apple’s ecosystem. The number of attacks on macOS users through malicious and potentially unwanted programs has been increasing annually since 201...

IT threat evolution Q2 2019

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns More about ShadowHammer In March, we published the results of our investigation into a sophisticated supply-chain attack involving the ASUS Live Update Utility, used to deliver BIOS, UEFI and software updates to ASUS laptops and desktops. The attackers added...

A case study in industry collaboration: Poisoned RDP vulnerability disclosure and response

Earlier this year, I reached out to Check Point researcher Eyal Itkin, who had published multiple flaws in several Remote Desktop Protocol RDP clients, including a vulnerability in mstsc.exe, the built-in RDP client application in Windows. While there were no active exploits detected in the wild,...