SpiderFoot 2.12 - Automates OSINT to find out everything possible about your target

SpiderFoot is a reconnaissance tool that automatically queries over 100 public data sources OSINT to gather intelligence on IP addresses, domain names, e-mail addresses, names and more. You simply specify the target you want to investigate, pick which modules to enable and then SpiderFoot will...

FireEye’s Marina Krotofil On Triton and ICS Threats

At the Security Analyst Summit this year in Cancun, FireEye’s Marina Krotofil talks about the Triton malware, first disclosed in December 2017, that targets industrial control systems. Krotofil discusses with Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell about the implications of this malware for the...

Vulnerability in Robots Can Lead To Costly Ransomware Attacks

CANCUN, Mexico – A vulnerability in Softbank Robotics’ NAO and Pepper robots can lead to costly ransomware attacks that could cause robots deployed in businesses to stop working, curse at customers, or even perform violent movements. The vulnerability was disclosed at Kaspersky Lab’s Security...

Encryption 101: ShiOne ransomware case study

In part one of this series, Encryption 101: a malware analyst's primer, we introduced some of the basic encryption concepts used in malware. If you haven't read it, we suggest going back for a review, as it's necessary in order to be able to fully follow part two, our case study. In this study, w...

GOSINT - Open Source Threat Intelligence Gathering and Processing Framework

The GOSINT framework is a project used for collecting, processing, and exporting high quality indicators of compromise IOCs. GOSINT allows a security analyst to collect and standardize structured and unstructured threat intelligence. Applying threat intelligence to security operations enriches...

jobrobot.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-453619 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| jobrobot.de Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet...

Digital forensics: How to recover deleted files

Where I personally have a problem remembering names and birthdays, computers have a hard time “forgetting” things. Even when we tell them to do so. If you ever unintentionally deleted a file, you may have been able to retrieve it from the Recycle Bin. Or, if it was past that stage and the file wa...

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:...