This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Launches its XDR Center in India and EU Reports 5G Cybersecurity Risks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about Trend Micro’s new XDR Center in India that will help solve data sovereignty issues. Also, read about 5G network software use bei...

This Week in Security News: Fake Apps on iOS and Google Play and Social Media Security Issues

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the evolution of EDR to XDR and why your CISO should care, stock trading app attacks and fake gambling apps. Also, read about ho...

Why Should CISOs Care About XDR?

We have been collectively saying in our industry for the last 15-20 years that a layered approach to your security stack is a “best practice,” but as with all best practices, these are ideals rather than reality for so many charged with protecting their organizations. The vast majority of CISOs a...

Trend Micro Named A Leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms

Leadership. It’s a weighty term, although frequently it is used too lightly and all too often it’s a self-declared position. We believe, leaders can come and go, and leadership can be fleeting depending on the factors for long term success. It is for all these reasons, that we are proud, not only...

This Week in Security News: Phishing Campaigns and a Biometric Data Breach

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about ever-increasing amounts of phishing campaigns and how Trend Micro caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from...

XDR Is The Best Remedy As Attackers Increasingly Seek To Evade EDR

Real enterprises are messy places. One messy reality is that enterprises don’t manage all their endpoints. A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric. On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : rpcbind Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0100)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has rpcbind packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc libntirpc, a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : libtirpc Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0106)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has libtirpc packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc libntirpc, a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of...

This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns and Cryptocurrency Miners

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about continuing cybersecurity attacks targeting small governments. Also, read how XDR, Trend Micro’s newest solution, is more...

Why XDR Is A Big Deal, and Is Different from SIEM and Platforms

In Jon Clay’s post, he does a great job of explaining the evolution from EDR to XDR. In short, he explained that Endpoint Detection and Response EDR is great, but that having sources of information beyond endpoint is better. The ‘X’ in XDR is essentially ‘many’ or whatever we can add to provide a...

XDR Needs Network Data and Here’s Why

As we’ve discussed in previous blogs, XDR is a better way to detect attacks within a network since it is able to coordinate and collaborate threat intelligence and data across multiple threat vectors, including endpoint including mobile and IIoT, server, network, messaging, web, and cloud. In thi...

This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns and Cryptocurrency Miners

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about three different ransomware campaigns that caused havoc in different public sectors. Also, read how threat actors are infecting...

Learn How XDR Can Take Breach Protection Beyond Endpoint Security

How do you know whether an attacker has infiltrated your network? Can you really rely on an Endpoint Detection and Response EDR solution to be your go-to technology for identifying security breaches? Endpoint detection and response EDR platform has been an important technology to detect...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

libntirpc is vulnerable to denial of service. It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc libntirpc, a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of messages to rpcbind could cause its memory usage to grow without bound, eventually...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in XDR affects IBM DataPower Gateways (CVE-2017-8804)

Summary A potential Denial of Service vulnerability exists in XDR. IBM DataPower Gateways has addressed the applicable CVE. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-8804 DESCRIPTION: glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper handling of buffer deserialization in the xdrbytes and...

NIS bootparamd Domain Name Disclosure

This module discloses the NIS domain name from bootparamd. You must know a client address from the target's bootparams file. Hint: try hosts within the same network range as the target. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

Solaris XDR RPC Request Handling RCE (April 2017 CPU) (EBBISLAND / EBBSHAVE)

Binary data rpcebbshave.nbin...

Rpcbind XDR Parsing Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service (CVE-2017-8779)

A resource exhaustion vulnerability exists in rpcbind, within its associated library libtirpc. The vulnerability is due to an unbounded memory leak when parsing XDR strings. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted RPC messages to the vulnerable server...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: libntirpc security update

An update for libntirpc is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 for RHEL 6 and Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 for RHEL 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

libntirpc: Memory leak when failing to parse XDR strings or bytearrays

It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc libntirpc, a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of messages to rpcbind could cause its memory usage to grow without bound, eventually causing it to be terminated by the OOM killer...