The Golden Hour of Incident Response

As a CSIRT consultant, I cannot overemphasize the importance of effectively managing the first hour in a critical incident. Finding out what to do is often a daunting task in a critical incident. In addition, the feeling of uneasiness often prevents an incident response analyst from making...

Demystifying XDR: How Curated Detections Filter Out the Noise

Extended detection and response XDR is, by nature, a forward-looking technology. By adding automation to human insight, XDR rethinks and redefines the work that has been traditionally ascribed to security information and event management SIEM and other well-defined, widely used tools within...

Macrome - Excel Macro Document Reader/Writer For Red Teamers And Analysts

An Excel Macro Document Reader/Writer for Red Teamers & Analysts. Blog posts describing what this tool actually does can be found here and here. Installation / Building Clone or download this repository, the tool can then be executed using dotnet - for example: dotnet run -- build --decoy-documen...

DBeaver XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

DBeaver is a free multi-platform database tool for developers, Sql programmers, database administrators and analysts from the DBeaver team in the U.S. An XML external entity injection vulnerability exists in DBeaver, which stems from a web-based system or product that does not set the correct...

Vulnerabilities fixed in IBM i2 Analysts Notebook

IBM has fixed vulnerabilities in i2 Analysts' Notebook. A local malicious party could potentially exploit the vulnerabilities to obtain elevated privileges within the application. IBM has released updates to fix the vulnerabilities in i2 Analysts' Notebook 9.3.1. For more information, see:...

CVE-2021-39049

IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook 9.2.0, 9.2.1, and 9.2.2 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. A local attacker could overflow a buffer and gain lower level privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 214439...

A closer look at Qakbot’s latest building blocks (and how to knock them down)

Multiple Qakbot campaigns that are active at any given time prove that the decade-old malware continues to be many attackers’ tool of choice, a customizable chameleon that adapts to suit the needs of the multiple threat actor groups that utilize it. Since emerging in 2007 as a banking Trojan,...

A closer look at Qakbot’s latest building blocks (and how to knock them down)

Multiple Qakbot campaigns that are active at any given time prove that the decade-old malware continues to be many attackers’ tool of choice, a customizable chameleon that adapts to suit the needs of the multiple threat actor groups that utilize it. Since emerging in 2007 as a banking Trojan,...

Structured threat hunting: One way Microsoft Threat Experts prioritizes customer defense

Todays threat landscape is incredibly fast-paced. New campaigns surface all the time, and the amount of damage that they can cause is not always immediately apparent. Security operations centers SOCs must be equipped with the tools and insight to identify and resolve potentially high-impact threa...

Join us at InfoSec Jupyterthon 2021

We’re excited to invite our community of infosec analysts and engineers to the second annual InfoSec Jupyterthon taking place on December 2-3, 2021. This is an online event organized by our friends in the Open Threat Research Forge, together with folks from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Cente...

Facebook Bans Pakistani and Syrian Hacker Groups for Abusing its Platform

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Tuesday that it took action against four separate malicious cyber groups from Pakistan and Syria who were found targeting people in Afghanistan, as well as journalists, humanitarian organizations, and anti-regime military forces in the West...

How Open Systems uses Microsoft tools to improve security maturity

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. We’ve all seen it happen—an organization has all the top-notch security tools in place and still, they get breached. In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, complexity leads to...

Operationalizing Threat Intelligence with User-Driven Automation

Security operations centers SOCs and threat analysts are struggling with ever-increasing and growing cyberthreats. Massive volumes of data created every second lead to new vulnerabilities and attack vectors. How do SOCs and incident response teams keep up with the threats happening across the...

The return of the Malwarebytes CrackMe

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade Update: Malwarebytes Crackme : we already have the winners in the category "the fastest solve", congratulations! 1st: @nazywam 2nd: Suvaditya Sur @x0r19x91 3rd:@evandrix But we are still waiting for your submissions! -- Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence...

Solution Providers Can Now Add Incident Response to Their Services Portfolio For Free

The Incident Response IR services market is in accelerated growth due to the rise in cyberattacks that result in breaches. More and more organizations, across all sizes and verticals, choose to outsource IR to 3rd party service providers over handling security incidents in-house. Cynet is now...

Announcing the Eighth Annual Flare-On Challenge

The FLARE team is once again hosting its annual Flare-On challenge, now in its eighth year. Take this opportunity to enjoy some extreme social distancing by solving fun puzzles to test your mettle and learn new tricks on your path to reverse engineering excellence. The contest will begin at 8:00...

When coin miners evolve, Part 2: Hunting down LemonDuck and LemonCat attacks

Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 provides a deep dive on the attacker...

BazaCall: Phony call centers lead to exfiltration and ransomware

Our continued investigation into BazaCall campaigns, those that use fraudulent call centers that trick unsuspecting users into downloading the BazaLoader malware, shows that this threat is more dangerous than what’s been discussed publicly in other security blogs and covered by the media. Apart...

CVE-2021-20430

IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium IBM i2 Analyze 4.3.0, 4.3.1, and 4.3.2 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information when a detailed technical error message is returned in the browser. This information could be used in further attacks against the system. IBM X-Force ID: 196341...

IBM i2 Analysts Notebook Premium 代码问题漏洞

IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium is a premium version of IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook from IBM USA. IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook Premium has an information disclosure vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to obtain sensitive information from the system...