This Week in Security News

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. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

EternalRomance NSA Exploit a Key Player in Bad Rabbit Ransomware Mayhem

By Waqas Two days back we reported about the havoc caused by This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: EternalRomance NSA Exploit a Key Player in Bad Rabbit Ransomware Mayhem...

This Week in Security News

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. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Bad Rabbit Ransomware Uses Leaked 'EternalRomance' NSA Exploit to Spread

A new widespread ransomware worm, known as "Bad Rabbit," that hit over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia and Ukraine this week leverages a stolen NSA exploit released by the Shadow Brokers this April to spread across victims' networks. Earlier it was reported that this week's...

October 26, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Continental Congress” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 26, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Protecting elections fro...

Bad Rabbit – Ransomware

updated: 10/26/2017 with additional file hashes and mitigations A new ransomware campaign has affected at least three Russian media companies in a fast-spreading malware attack. Fontanka and Interfax are among the companies affected by the Bad Rabbit ransomware named by the researchers who first...

Bad Rabbit ransomware

UPDATE 27.10.2017. Decryption opportunity assessment. File recovery possibility. Verdicts What happened? On October 24th we observed notifications of mass attacks with ransomware called Bad Rabbit. It has been targeting organizations and consumers, mostly in Russia but there have also been report...

Threat Spotlight: Follow the Bad Rabbit

Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research continues.Update 2017-10-26 16:10 EDT: added additional information regarding the links between Nyetya and BadRabbitUpdate 2017-10-26 09:20...

PT-2017-1938 · Microsoft · Windows +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: microsoft server message block 1.0 Description: The issue exists due to insufficient input validation in the SMBv1 protocol of the Microsoft Windows operating system. This allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code using specially...