Insights from the MITRE ATT&CK-based evaluation of Windows Defender ATP

In MITREs evaluation of endpoint detection and response solutions, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection demonstrated industry-leading optics and detection capabilities. The breadth of telemetry, the strength of threat intelligence, and the advanced, automatic detection through machine...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.6.1

PenTestIT RSS Feed I'm sure you must have read my previous post title the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. In that post, I briefly mentioned about the Guardicore Infection Monkey. Good news now is that it has been updated! We now have Infection Monkey 1.6.1. An important change about this versi...

The use of a posture clear odd 11882 format overflow document analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Prior to inadvertently give a very interesting rtf document, the sandbox where the behavior of a pile, the document itself and confuse the very clear odd, so spend a little time to analyze this sample. Substantially clear the sample of the attack techniques and attack the chain, the open part of...

The use of Microsoft Edge vulnerability to steal local files-bug warning-the black bar safety net

In 2015, Microsoft released the Edge browser. When it was originally developed, it was named Project Spartan to. With Internet Explorer different, Edge support of the broader modern security measures, such as Content Security Policy, CSP, and modern JavaScript and CSS properties. Abandon Internet...

Badgelife: A Defcon 26 retrospective

One more year gone, one more Defcon completed. Defcon is the longest-running security conference in existence and one that I have been attending since Defcon 18. It is an opportunity to see and interact in real life with industry peers that would forever remain a digital persona otherwise. It is...

Prowli Malware Targeting Servers, Routers, and IoT Devices

After the discovery of massive VPNFilter malware botnet, security researchers have now uncovered another giant botnet that has already compromised more than 40,000 servers, modems and internet-connected devices belonging to a wide number of organizations across the world. Dubbed Operation Prowli,...

Secrets of the Wiper: Inside the World's Most Destructive Malware

Shamoon, Black Energy, Destover, ExPetr/Not Petya and Olympic Destroyer: All of these wiper malwares, and others like them, have a singular purpose of destroying systems and/or data, usually causing great financial and reputational damage to victim companies. However, the threat actors behind thi...

A Deep Dive into Database Attacks [Part II]: Delivery and Execution of Malicious Executables through SQL commands (SQL Server)

An organization’s database servers are frequently the prime target of attackers. We recently started a new research project we named StickyDB to learn more about database hacking, primarily to understand common database attacks, tools and techniques engaged by attackers. To conduct this research,...

Threat Analysis: Malicious Microsoft Word Documents Being Used in Targeted Attack Campaigns

A Microsoft Word document .doc believed to be malicious was recently submitted to Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU. The submitting organization did not feel that that document and subsequent payload was fully executing in their analysis environment, and questioned whether or not it was...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Luda Lazar

For National Cyber Security Awareness Month my colleague Joy Ma kicked off the first in of a series of articles where we’ll be spotlighting some of the women who work at Imperva. Continuing in the series, I spoke with Luda Lazar, security research engineer for the Imperva Defense Center, to get h...

Fileless Malware: A Hidden Threat

Malware is advancing at an unprecedented rate, with four new strains discovered every minute, Slate reported. This is already a lot for businesses to worry about and it doesn't even cover the other threats that haven't been detected. Many attackers have evolved their techniques to evade common...

Threat Analysis: Word Documents with Embedded Macros Leveraging Emotet Trojan

Many customers have recently asked how Carbon Black's solutions detect macros and droppers specifically referencing Emotet dropper files. Customers often say that macros and droppers are an ongoing problem in their environments. They are also seen day-to-day by most practitioners. The analysis...

The ASLR protection mechanism is a breakthrough attack technical analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, hardware-based attacks have been started by Rowhammer memory leaks or bypass the address space layout randomization protection mechanisms to attack the system, these attacks are based on the processor's memory management unit MMU with a page table interactive interactive manner. These...

CVE-2 0 1 6-6 6 6 2-MySQL ‘malloc_lib’variable rewrite command to perform the analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Today there is one about the MySQL vulnerability is revealed, numbered CVE-2 0 1 6-6 6 6 2 in. The vulnerability is mainly related to the mysqldsafe script in acceleration/handling memory when using “malloclib”variable as identify the marker selective loadingpreload, such as tcmalloc or the like ...

Mailbox fishing those things: the Chrome address reverse vulnerability use cases-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

First talk about the recently seen one of the more interesting vulnerability, the Google browser chrome address inversion, later we'll said. One day, your mailbox has received an incredible message that may come from your boss or your best friend, do not feel strange, it is likely that you are...

IRONGATE ICS Malware: Nothing to See Here...Masking Malicious Activity on SCADA Systems

In the latter half of 2015, the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team identified several versions of an ICS-focused malware crafted to manipulate a specific industrial process running within a simulated Siemens control system environment. We named this family of malware IRONGATE...

Healthcare IT Security Practices Poor, Systems Compromised

A new report from the SANS Institute warns that the push to digitize all health care records along with the emergence of HealthCare.gov and the general proliferation of electronic protected health information ePHI online will only exacerbate the security problems faced by those that store sensiti...

Time For a Change in Security Thinking, Experts Say

WASHINGTON–Security, like a lot of other things, tends to go in phases. A new attack technique is developed, vendors respond with a new defensive technology and then attackers find a way to defeat it. It has always been that way. And right now, things seem to be in one of those periodic down cycl...

Regarding the recent“mysql vulnerability”of some ideas with some related clutter code-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently it seems, and WMI fate, always came across the WMI stuff. Then see the WMI just wanted to tap some knowledge, the right time not in vain. “Vulnerability”is what needless to say, everyone is clear. Here is a personal simple idea with some messy code, welcome to the discussion. First of al...

Dorifel Malware Encrypts Files, Steals Financial Data, May Be Related to Zeus or Citadel

While much of the world was focused yesterday on the Gauss malware saga, there was another interesting infection happening, mainly in the Netherlands, that researchers think may be related to the Zeus and Citadel attacks, though the motivation behind the attack is somewhat of a mystery. The new...