Threat Roundup for Oct. 26 to Nov. 2

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 26 and Nov. 02. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

Google Updates reCAPTCHA: No More Boxes to Check

Google this week has rolled out its latest version of the reCAPTCHA mechanism, which is meant to weed out spam and abuse by robots on websites. It marks a dramatic departure from previous reCAPTCHA efforts by eliminating the need for visitors to take any extra steps in order to log onto a website...

Don’t Overlook Qualys Malware Detection

Cyber criminals are constantly looking for opportunities to infect legitimate websites with malware. They can use infected websites to cryptomine, steal data, hijack systems, deface pages, and do other damage to harm a company’s reputation and impact their users. This can result in lost revenue,...

Fileless malware: part deux

In part one of this series, we focused on an introduction to the concepts fileless malware, providing examples of the problems that we in the security industry face when dealing with these types of attacks. In part two, I will be walking through a few demonstrations of fileless malware attacks th...

Partner Perspectives: Integrate your SIEM, UEBA + EDR Solution with Securonix and Carbon Black

Nitin Agale is the Senior VP of Products for Securonix. Your endpoints are a valuable part of your enterprise structure. They are the computers your employees use and the servers your company depends on. Defending your endpoints is important, but it’s critical that your endpoint defense is just o...

Artificial Intelligence: A Cybersecurity Tool for Good, and Sometimes Bad

Artificial intelligence is the new golden ring for cybersecurity developers, thanks to its potential to not just automate functions at scale but also to make contextual decisions based on what it learns over time. This can have big implications for security personnel—all too often, companies simp...

Threat Roundup for August 31 to September 7

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed this week — covering the dates between Aug. 31 and Sept. 7. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, we will summarize the threats we’ve observed b...

Wallarm joins AI Leaders @ AI Summit

Wallarm joins a select group of AI startups and prominent technologists from Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon to participate in AI Summit on September 19–20 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. AI Summit puts AI to work by delivering real value in the business. In just 3 years this...

Crashing Mobile Apps Capture Screens, Leak Private Data

Several mobile software developer kits SDKs can capture sensitive user data when a mobile app crashes, exposing private data to an outside third party. Researchers at Appthority singled out SDKs offered by AppSee and TestFairy in a report published Monday. They warned that mobile users whose apps...

BIOS Boots What? Finding Evil in Boot Code at Scale!

The second issue is that reverse engineering all boot records is impractical. Given the job of determining if a single system is infected with a bootkit, a malware analyst could acquire a disk image and then reverse engineer the boot bytes to determine if anything malicious is present in the boot...

Measuring the Rationality of Security Decisions

Interesting research: "Dancing Pigs or Externalities? Measuring the Rationality of Security Decisions": Abstract: Accurately modeling human decision-making in security is critical to thinking about when, why, and how to recommend that users adopt certain secure behaviors. In this work, we conduct...

Drupal, Phishing and A New Cryptomining Botnet

It’s a well-known fact that security solutions must quickly adapt to new attack methods. There are several ways to achieve this goal, regularly applying security patches and updates, relying on threat intelligence and more. At Imperva, we use pattern anomaly detection as one of the tools to...

Threat Roundup for June 22-29

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 22 and June 29. 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 behavioral characteristic...

New Malware Family Uses Custom UDP Protocol for C&C Communications

Security researchers have uncovered a new highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign, which is believed to be associated with a hacking group behind KHRAT backdoor Trojan and has been targeting organizations in South East Asia. According to researchers from Palo Alto, the hacking group, which they...

CVE-2018-5526

Under certain conditions, on F5 BIG-IP ASM 13.1.0-13.1.0.5, Behavioral DOS BADOS protection may fail during an attack...

CVE-2018-5526

Under certain conditions, on F5 BIG-IP ASM 13.1.0-13.1.0.5, Behavioral DOS BADOS protection may fail during an attack...

CVE-2018-5526

The vulnerability CVE-2018-5526 affects F5 BIG-IP ASM (Application Security Manager) where Behavioral DoS (BADoS) protection may fail under attack. Affected releases include BIG-IP ASM 13.1.0 through 13.1.0.5; the advisory indicates fixes were introduced in 13.1.0.6 (and related updates) and list...

CVE-2018-5526: Undefined Security Weakness

Under certain conditions, on F5 BIG-IP ASM 13.1.0-13.1.0.5, Behavioral DOS BADOS protection may fail during an attack...

PT-2018-17020

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions F5 BIG-IP ASM versions 13.1.0 through 13.1.0.5 Description The issue occurs under certain conditions where Behavioral DOS BADOS protection may fail during an attack. Recommendations For versions 13.1.0 through 13.1.0.5, at the moment, there is...

Trojan watch

We continue to research how proliferation of IoT devices affects the daily lives of users and their information security. In our previous study, we touched upon ways of intercepting authentication data using single-board microcomputers. This time, we turned out attention to wearable devices:...