TAU Threat Advisory: Microsoft Exchange Servers Targeted with Four Zero-day Exploits

The following advisory from VMware Threat Analysis Unit TAU is to provide guidance, best practices and capabilities to identify risk, prevent, detect and respond to this emerging threat. Summary On March 2, 2021 Microsoft announced four zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857,...

Celebrating Black History Today and Every Day

Black History Month is a time for every person, from all different backgrounds to honor and celebrate the achievements of Black and African Americans in the U.S. and their impact on world history. In honor of Black History Month, we would like to recognize some of our amazing team members who hav...

VMware Carbon Black Named to the 2021 CRN Security 100 List

We are proud to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named VMware Carbon Black to its annual Security 100 list. The Security 100 list features leading IT channel security vendors and is compiled by a panel of CRN editors, recognizing channel-focused security vendors across five...

MSRC Security Researcher Recognition: 2021

Wondering how to get into the 2021 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researcher list and get recognized during the Black Hat USA this August? Read on to learn more about the different paths you can take to get into the top researcher tiers. The MSRC Most Valuable Security Researcher MVR and MSRC...

MSRC Security Researcher Recognition: 2021

Wondering how to get into the 2021 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researcher list and get recognized during the Black Hat USA this August? Read on to learn more about the different paths you can take to get into the top researcher tiers. The MSRC Most Valuable Security Researcher MVR and MSRC...

Deploying The New VMware Carbon Black Container Security Solution

“VMware acquired Octarine, a privately held company in Sunnyvale, California on May 27, 2020. Octarine offers a cloud-native security platform for the complete lifecycle of applications running on Kubernetes, helping customers to protect their cloud-native apps from build to runtime. Acquiring...

Beware! Fully-Functional Exploit Released Online for SAP Solution Manager Flaw

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a publicly available fully-functional exploit that could be used to target SAP enterprise software. The exploit leverages a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-6207, that stems from a missing authentication check in SAP Solution Manager SolMan version 7.2 S...

Beware! Fully-Functional Exploit Released Online for SAP Solution Manager Flaw

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a publicly available fully-functional exploit that could be used to target SAP enterprise software. The exploit leverages a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-6207, that stems from a missing authentication check in SAP Solution Manager SolMan version 7.2 S...

VMware Carbon Black Cloud™ Awarded Cyber Catalyst Designation

VMware Carbon Black Cloud has been awarded a Cyber CatalystSM designation for its cloud native endpoint and workload protection platforms, which helps more than 20,000 organizations worldwide detect and stop emerging attacks. The designation is part of the annual Cyber Catalyst by Marsh℠ program,...

The vulnerability of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud for MacOS installer relates to memory object processing errors, which allows an attacker to compromise the integrity and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud for MacOS installer is related to errors in memory object processing. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise the integrity and accessibility of the protected information...

VideoBytes: Offensive security tools and the bad guys that use them

Hello Folks! In this Videobyte, we’re talking about what penetration testing tools malware gangs love to use and why they are better than what you can get on the black market. This article describes the VirusBulletin talk of a security researcher from Interzer Labs, Paul Litvak, in which he...

Enterprise EDR Expands New Linux Coverage to SUSE, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Oracle & Amazon Linux

VMware Carbon Black is pleased to announce an exciting expansion of Linux distribution coverage for Enterprise EDR users on the VMware Carbon Black Cloud platform. In addition to the current support of Windows, macOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL, CentOS, and Oracle, this release further expands...

Announcing the General Availability of Container Security in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud

Today, we are excited to announce the first release of Container Security capabilities in the Carbon Black Cloud. Building on our Cloud Workload Protection solution announced at VMworld, our new Container Security offering supports VMware’s Intrinsic Security vision to protect data and applicatio...

TAU Threat Analysis: Insights on the SolarWinds Breach

In light of the SolarWinds breach, we want to help our customers who may have questions as well as the larger security community. The VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU has been steadfastly monitoring the evolving situation as we learn more about the supply chain compromise. We caught u...

CVE-2020-4008

The installer of the macOS Sensor for VMware Carbon Black Cloud prior to 3.5.1 handles certain files in an insecure way. A malicious actor who has local access to the endpoint on which a macOS sensor is going to be installed, may overwrite a limited number of files with output from the sensor...

Information disclosure

The installer of the macOS Sensor for VMware Carbon Black Cloud prior to 3.5.1 handles certain files in an insecure way. A malicious actor who has local access to the endpoint on which a macOS sensor is going to be installed, may overwrite a limited number of files with output from the sensor...

CVE-2020-4008

CVE-2020-4008 concerns the macOS Sensor for VMware Carbon Black Cloud prior to version 3.5.1, where the installer handles certain files insecurely. This vulnerability could allow a local attacker with access to the endpoint to overwrite a limited set of files with output from the sensor installat...

CVE-2020-4008

The installer of the macOS Sensor for VMware Carbon Black Cloud prior to 3.5.1 handles certain files in an insecure way. A malicious actor who has local access to the endpoint on which a macOS sensor is going to be installed, may overwrite a limited number of files with output from the sensor...

VMware Carbon Black Cloud Security Vulnerability

VMware Carbon Black Cloud is a Sass platform from VMware, Inc. that provides security checking defense capabilities for cloud endpoints. A security vulnerability exists in the Vmware Carbon Black Cloud MacoS Sensor that stems from the macOS Sensor's installer handling certain files in an insecure...

VMware Carbon Black Cloud macOS Sensor installer updates address file overwrite issue (CVE-2020-4008)

3. VMware Carbon Black Cloud macOS Sensor installer file overwrite issue CVE-2020-4008 The installer of the macOS Sensor for VMware Carbon Black Cloud handles certain files in an insecure way. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Low severity range with a CVSSv3 base score...