An Analytical Framework for Network Data: Flare

An Analytical Framework for Network Data Flare is a network analytic framework designed for data scientists, security researchers, and network professionals. Written in Python, it is designed for rapid prototyping and development of behavioral analytics, and intended to make identifying malicious...

Published desktop is launched in background of local applications

Setting registry key: ForegroundLockTimeout to 0 makes published desktop window to launch in foreground in most cases. HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop name: ForegroundLockTimeout type: REGDWORD data: 0 default: 200000 In some cases, there are applications that set this value to a non 0 value, which...

Wannacry depth of analysis: the first stage tasksche-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

WannaCry ransomware is a 2017 of the most popular ransomware, which uses a Microsoft vulnerability in the global range attacks make the world more than 100 countries, hundreds of thousands of users by the impact. Has a global range of network security education for all. As a security industry...

Today’s File Security is So ’80s, Part 3: Dynamic Peer Groups – 3 Examples from Customer Data

In the first two parts of this series, we discussed why permissions management, the traditional approach to file security, no longer works and introduced a new approach to file security that leverages machine learning to build dynamic peer groups based on how users actually access files. In this...

What is BDD Testing: Practical Examples of Behavior Driven Development Testing

The Need for Behavior Driven Development BDD Testing Tools It should come as no surprise to learn that testing is at the heart of our engineers' daily activities. Testing is intrinsic to our development process, both in practical terms and in our thinking. Our engineers work with complex systems...

Millennials and Secret Leaking

I hesitate to blog this, because it's an example of everything that's wrong with pop psychology. Malcolm Harris writes about millennials, and has a theory of why millennials leak secrets. My guess is that you could write a similar essay about every named generation, every age group, and so on...

CVE-2017-7676

Policy resource matcher in Apache Ranger before 0.7.1 ignores characters after '' wildcard character - like mytest, test.txt. This can result in unintended behavior...

Design/Logic Flaw

Policy resource matcher in Apache Ranger before 0.7.1 ignores characters after '' wildcard character - like mytest, test.txt. This can result in unintended behavior...

CVE-2017-7676

Policy resource matcher in Apache Ranger before 0.7.1 ignores characters after '' wildcard character - like mytest, test.txt. This can result in unintended behavior...

CVE-2017-7676

Policy resource matcher in Apache Ranger before 0.7.1 ignores characters after '' wildcard character - like mytest, test.txt. This can result in unintended behavior...

New Mac Malware-as-a-Service offerings

A couple weeks ago, two new Malware-as-a-Service MaaS offerings for the Mac became available. These two offerings - a backdoor named MacSpy and a ransomware app named MacRansom - were discovered by Catalin Cimpanu of Bleeping Computer on May 25. Cimpanu evidently had some trouble getting hold of...

MSRT June 2017: Removing sneaky Xiazai

In the June release of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool MSRT, we’re adding Xiazai, a widespread family of browser modifiers that we have blocked and removed from millions of computers since 2015. Xiazai is a software bundler that can sneak in additional changes. Xiazai does not insta...

FIN7 Hitting Restaurants with Fileless Malware

FIN7, closely associated with the notorious Carbanak group, is behind a targeted phishing campaign singling out restaurants with fileless malware that is difficult to detect. The recent campaign incorporates, “never before seen evasive techniques that allow malware to bypass most security...

Today’s File Security is So ‘80s, Part 2: Detect Suspicious File Access with Dynamic Peer Groups

In a previous post, we shared three primary reasons why the traditional, static approach to file security no longer works for today’s modern enterprises. Working groups are formed organically and are cross-functional by nature, making a black and white approach to file access control outdated—it...

Threat Round-up for June 2 - June 9

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 02 and June 09. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics,...

ACR/SR Behavior Change with Receiver for Windows 4.7

This article is intended for Citrix administrators and technical teams only. Non-admin users must contact their company’s Help Desk/IT support team and can refer to CTX297149 for more information. ACR/SR is enabled out-of-the-box after users upgrade XenApp/XenDesktop to 7.13 or newer along with...

Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2017)

I'm in Cambridge University, at the tenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the human side of security, organized each year by Ross Anderson, Alessandro Acquisti, and myself. The 50 or so people in the room include...

Thwart Insider Threats with Machine Learning [Infographic]

Potentially the most lethal kind of threat to an organization’s security, insider threats can pose risks as significant as—if not more than—external attacks. Because insiders are granted trusted access to sensitive data, these threats often fly under the security radar. By examining how users...

gdal: Bad-cast to xercesc_3_1::DOMElement from xercesc_3_1::DOMTextImpl;getPolygon;ILI2Reader::getGeometry

Project: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6328230174785536 Project: gdal Fuzzer: libFuzzergdalogrfuzzer Fuzz target binary: ogrfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsangdal Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Bad-cast Crash Address: 0x0000080e4d60 Crash State:...

Visual Malware Analysis: ProcDOT

Visual Malware Analysis There are plenty of tools for behavioral malware analysis. The defacto standard ones, though, are Sysinternals’s Process Monitor also known as Procmon and PCAP generating network sniffers like Windump, Tcpdump, Wireshark, and the like. These “two” tools cover almost...