Mother's Day Online Shoppers Were Active, and So Were Threat Actors

Mother's Day is a major online shopping event that attracts both shoppers as well as threat actors. Earlier in the year, we reported on the United Kingdom's version, called Mothering Sunday. An eMarketer spending forecast predicted that in the United States, retail gift spending would increase,...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Wireshark, previously known as Ethereal, is a network protocol analyzer. It is used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network. Two flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly,...

People Spent More Time with Their Mom this Mother's Day in the U.K.

The first major peak traffic event for online shopping in the United Kingdom is Mother's Day, held this year on Sunday, March 31. As we did during peak holiday traffic events last year, we tabulated and analyzed aggregate statistics from global online retail traffic that touched nearly 100 retail...

Cisco IOS XE ETA Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco IOS XE is a modular operating system based on the Linux kernel. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analysis ETA feature of Cisco IOS XE, which arises from a logic error in the program when processing malformed incoming packets, and can be exploited by a...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1729-1] wireshark security update

Package : wireshark Version : 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u18 CVE ID : CVE-2017-9344 CVE-2017-9349 CVE-2019-9209 Several vulnerabilities have been found in wireshark, a network traffic analyzer. CVE-2019-9209: Preventing the crash of the ASN.1 BER and related dissectors by avoiding a buffer overflow...

IoT-Home-Guard - A Tool For Malicious Behavior Detection In IoT Devices

IoT-Home-Guard is a project to help people discover malware in smart home devices. For users the project can help to detect compromised smart home devices. For security researchers it is also useful in network analysis and malicious hehaviors detection. In July 2018 we had completed the first...

Hacking the GCHQ Backdoor

Last week, I evaluated the security of a recent GCHQ backdoor proposal for communications systems. Furthering the debate, Nate Cardozo and Seth Schoen of EFF explain how this sort of backdoor can be detected: In fact, we think when the ghost feature is active­ -- silently inserting a secret...

A Framework for Secure and Scalable Network Traffic Analysis: Netcap

The Netcap NETwork CAPture framework efficiently converts a stream of network packets into highly accessible type-safe structured data that represent specific protocols or custom abstractions. These audit records can be stored on disk or exchanged over the network, and are well suited as a data...

PA Toolkit - A Collection Of Traffic Analysis Plugins Focused On Security

PA Toolkit is a collection of traffic analysis plugins to extend the functionality of Wireshark from a micro-analysis tool and protocol dissector to the macro analyzer and threat hunter. PA Toolkit contains plugins both dissectors and taps covering various scenarios for multiple protocols,...

Mobile Shopping Growth Accelerates During Diwali

Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights, celebrated every autumn in October or November. According to Redseer Consulting, the sales volume during the festival usually accounts for about 35%-40% of the annual sales of e-commerce in India; for 2018 Redseer predicts $2.5 to $3 billion gross merchandi...

Information to Keep Handy Before Troubleshooting NetScaler SD-WAN Issues

Expedite the troubleshooting process by having the following information hand: Topology/Flow diagram All traffic passing through NetScaler SD-WAN or not Links with variable bandwidth Bandwidth offered by ISP Bandwidth observed by using Iperf Bandwidth configured on the NetScaler SD-WAN Links Any...

WindowsSpyBlocker - Block Spying And Tracking On Windows

WindowsSpyBlocker is an application written in Go and delivered as a single executable to block spying and tracking on Windows systems. The initial approach of this application is to capture and analyze network traffic based on a set of tools. It is open for everyone and if you want to contribute...

Traffic Analysis of the LTE Mobile Standard

Interesting research in using traffic analysis to learn things about encrypted traffic. It's hard to know how critical these vulnerabilities are. They're very hard to close without wasting a huge amount of bandwidth. The active attacks are more interesting. EDITED TO ADD 7/3: More information. I...

2018 Cyberthreat Defense Report: Where IT Security Is Going

What keeps you awake at night? We asked IT security professionals the same question and found that these issues are top of mind: malware and spear phishing, securing mobile devices, employee security awareness and new technologies that detect threats capable of bypassing traditional signature-bas...

Detecting Drone Surveillance with Traffic Analysis

This is clever: Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel have built a proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones that demonstrates a clever, if not exactly simple, way to determine whether a certain person or object is under aerial surveillance. They fir...

Korea In The Crosshairs

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres and with contributions from Jungsoo An. A one year review of campaigns performed by an actor with multiple campaigns mainly linked to South Korean targets. Executive Summary This article exposes the malicious activities of Group 123...

Deliver secure digital experiences using Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform - Part 2

In the first part of this blog series, we discussed how you can leverage Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform, the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, to achieve the scalability, availability, reliability and performance needed to deliver superior digital experiences and maximize...

The vulnerability of the Arbor Peakflow SP traffic control analysis system lies in the lack of protection for operational data, allowing intruders to read arbitrary files.

The vulnerability of the Arbor Peakflow SP traffic control analysis system is related to the lack of protection for operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to read arbitrary files...

maltran - Tool To Download Malware Exercises From MALware-TRaffic-ANalysis.net

This tool was developed with the purpose of furthering and organizing access to traffic analysis exercises and malware files captured and published almost daily. Maltran makes the views and downloads exercises and malspams easier in an extremely simple and organized way. Visit website...

Bypassing NGFW/WAFs using data format obfuscations

A lot of network security solutions today supports a lot data format inside HTTP and other protocols. The main question here is understanding, based on traffic analysis, which data formats such as JSON/Base64/XML/etc should be applied to which field. This is an analytically unsolvable problem...