Equifax Takes Down Compromised Page Redirecting to Adware Download

Update: Equifax said Thursday afternoon that it was not compromised and instead confirmed it was a third-party partner’s code running on the Equifax site that was serving adware. Below is Equifax’s statement: “Despite early media reports, Equifax can confirm that its systems were not compromised...

How to Troubleshoot "Veeam VMware Collector: VMware connection is unavailable"

Purpose This article documents troubleshooting steps for the Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Monitor/Alert named: Veeam VMware Collector: VMware connection is unavailable. Solution Ensure the Collectors are connected to the vCenter On the Collector server, confirm that the 'Veea...

IT threat evolution Q2 2017

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Back to the future: looking for a link between old and new APTs This year's Security Analyst Summit SAS included interesting research findings on several targeted attack campaigns. For example, researchers from Kaspersky Lab and King's College London present...

Marcus Hutchins (MalwareTech) Gets $30,000 Bail, But Can't Leave United States

Marcus Hutchins, the malware analyst who helped stop global Wannacry menace, has reportedly pleaded not guilty to charges of creating and distributing the infamous Kronos banking malware and is set to release on $30,000 bail on Monday. Hutchins, the 23-year-old who operates under the alias...

Hacker Leaks Data From Mandiant (FireEye) Senior Security Analyst

Reportedly, at least one senior cyber security analyst working with Mandiant, a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm owned by the FireEye, appears to have had its system compromised by hackers, exposing his sensitive information on the Internet. On Sunday, an anonymous group of hackers posted some...

Wallarm Finalist at 2017 Red Herring Top 100 North America

LOS ANGELES — 6.06.2017 — Wallarm has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award, one of the technology industry’s most prestigious prizes. Finalists for the awards are among the continent’s brightest and most innovative private ventures. Their place among North...

Mark Dowd on Exploit Mitigation Development

Mark Dowd, fresh off his 2017 Security Analyst Summit keynote, discusses why certain exploit mitigations have been so successful in driving up the cost of exploit development for attackers...

WarChild - Denial of Service Testing Suite

Warchild is a denial of service testing suite made for analysing the strength of your website against different kinds of denial of service attacks you will be facing which are mainly organised by crooks to cause damage to your website. Installation For Installing the required modules just run the...

Google Making Life Difficult for Ransomware to Thrive on Android

SINT MAARTEN—Google has never been shy about sharing security enhancements and victories in Android. The mobile operating system is tweaked at every iteration to fend off threats posed by potentially harmful apps and attacks against devices. At the recent Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit,...

On Baseband Vulnerabilities, SIEMs, Samsung Tizen and More

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook recap two conferences from last week: Infiltrate Con in Miami and Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit in St. Maarten. A baseband vulnerability, SIEMs, vulnerabilities in Samsung’s Tizen operating system, and an IoT honeypot are discussed. Download:...

Travel Routers, NAS Devices Among Easily Hacked IoT Devices

SINT MAARTEN—A researcher only needed 20 minutes last week to explain just how hopelessly broken some of the more popular Internet of Things devices on the market these days are. Jan Hoersch, an IT security consultant at Securai GmbH, a small pen-testing firm based in Munich, described...

Security Analyst Summit 2017 Day Two Recap

SINT MAARTEN—Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the second day of Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit, including how a Brazilian bank was compromised, a talk by Swisscom’s Markus Neis, and David Jacoby and Frans Rosen’s Hacking for Humanity talk. Download:...

Security Analyst Summit 2017 Day One Recap

SINT MAARTEN—Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the first day of this year’s Security Analyst Summit, including Mark Dowd’s memory corruption bug keynote, Thomas Rid, Daniel Moore, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, and Costin Raiu’s Moonlight Maze talk, ATM hacking, and the Lazarus APT. Download:...

On SAS 2017, the Microsoft IIS Zero Day, and Mirai

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook preview this year’s Security Analyst Summit and discuss the news of the week, including a Microsoft IIS zero day, a new Mirai variant, and the broadband privacy ruling. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMarch312017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Guest Post: Bamm Visscher on Detection

Yesterday my friend Bamm Visscher published a series of Tweets on detection. I thought readers might like to digest it as a lightly edited blog post. Here, then, is the first ever as far as I can remember guest post on TaoSecurity Blog. Enjoy. When you receive new threat intel and apply it in you...

FLARE Script Series: Querying Dynamic State using the FireEye Labs Query-Oriented Debugger (flare-qdb)

Introduction This post continues the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE script series. Here, we introduce flare-qdb, a command-line utility and Python module based on vivisect for querying and altering dynamic binary state conveniently, iteratively, and at scale. flare-qdb works on...

A Backdoor in Socat? Going Dark, IoT, and Previewing SAS 2016

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including internet-connected teddy bears, the latest on the Going Dark debate, and whether or not there’s a backdoor in Socat. They also preview next week’s Security Analyst Summit in Tenerife, Spain. Download:...

Wolf CMS - Arbitrary File Upload Execution

Wolf CMS - Arbitrary File Upload Execution Exploit Title : Wolf CMS 0.8.2 Arbitrary File Upload To Command Execution Reported Date : 05-May-2015 Fixed Date : 10-August-2015 Exploit Author : Narendra Bhati CVE ID : CVE-2015-6567 , CVE-2015-6568 Contact: Facebook :...

Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities in TIBCO Spotfire Analyst

TIBCO Spotfire Analyst is a suite of data analysis and mining platforms from TIBCO Software, USA. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in TIBCO Spotfire Analyst 5.5.2, prior version 6.0.3, prior 6.0.x version 6.5.3,7.0.x prior 7.0.1; and prior 6.5.x version versions allow remote attackers to...

Huawei SEQ Analyst XML External Entity Vulnerability

Huawei SEQ Analyst is Huawei's platform for monitoring service quality and managing relationships between individual users and multiple suppliers. The platform provides functions such as service debugging, user complaint handling, troubleshooting, user experience management, and deployment of...