Windows Kernel - Information Disclosure Vulnerability

PoC for the SWAPGS attack CVE-2019-1125 This holds the sources for the SWAPGS attack PoC publicly shown at Black Hat USA, 2019. Contents leakgsbkva - variant 1 look for random values in kernel memory; limited to PE kernel image header leakgsbkvat - variant 2 extract random values from kernel...

See the Advantages of Intrinsic Security | Join the Webinar Next Week

At VMware Carbon Black, we’re excited to continue exploring our approach to Intrinsic Security. What what does “intrinsic security” mean, and how does it help enhance and support an organization’s existing security stack? Truly, there has never been a more challenging nor exciting time in...

VMware Carbon Black TAU Threat Analysis: Shlayer (macOS)

Following our initial reporting of this threat, Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU has continued following the Shlayer family of malware and monitoring changes adopted by this campaign. Although detection by antivirus vendors has improved over the past year, the malware authors continue to...

VMware Carbon Black TAU: Ryuk Ransomware Technical Analysis

Ryuk Ransomware has been crippling both the public and private sector recently with the ability to disrupt its target environment. The ransomware will typically be dropped by an already compromised system that has been infected by Trickbot or Emotet through a phishing email. Once the Ryuk payload...

Partner Perspectives: Protecting Industrial Control Systems with Verve Industrial’s Endpoint Management and Carbon Black App Control

Imagine waking up in the morning, flipping on your light switch and nothing happens. The natural human response is to flip the switch a few more times before realizing something is wrong. You jump out of bed and notice the smart coffeemaker has not brewed a fresh cup of coffee that you’ve come to...

Recognizing Security Researchers in 2020

Is it too early to talk about the 2020 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researchers? Five months from now, at the end of June, the program period closes for researchers to be considered for inclusion in the Most Valuable Researchers list. The top researcher list will be revealed at Black Hat North...

Recognizing Security Researchers in 2020

Is it too early to talk about the 2020 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researchers? Five months from now, at the end of June, the program period closes for researchers to be considered for inclusion in the Most Valuable Researchers list. The top researcher list will be revealed at Black Hat North...

Recognizing Security Researchers in 2020

Is it too early to talk about the 2020 MSRC Most Valuable Security Researchers? Five months from now, at the end of June, the program period closes for researchers to be considered for inclusion in the Most Valuable Researchers list. The top researcher list will be revealed at Black Hat North...

Wallpaper set to Stretch is displayed as black in Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1

Wallpaper set to Stretch is displayed as black in Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 Summary This update resolves the following issue: Addresses an issue that might cause your wallpaper that is set to Stretch to display as black. Important Before you apply this update, see the "Prerequisites"...

Invoke-APT29: Adversarial Threat Emulation

MITRE recently conducted its second ATT&CK exercise in their ongoing annual series of Endpoint Security Efficacy testing and evaluation. This test focuses on assessing the behavioral capabilities of multiple endpoint security vendors against a simulated adversary, based closely around...

Exploit for CVE-2019-1125

PoC for the SWAPGS attack CVE-2019-1125https://nvd.nist.go...

Windows Kernel - Information Disclosure

Windows Kernel - Information Disclosure PoC for the SWAPGS attack CVE-2019-1125 This holds the sources for the SWAPGS attack PoC publicly shown at Black Hat USA, 2019. Contents leakgsbkva - variant 1 look for random values in kernel memory; limited to PE kernel image header leakgsbkvat - variant ...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with BraunAbility’s Arlie Hartman

BraunAbility is a mobility vehicle company committed to improving access and transportation for the world’s wheelchair community. Driven by a strong corporate culture of doing right by their customers and communities, providing advanced security has become an essential pillar of their mission...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: SatanCryptor Ransomware

In early January 2020, a new ransomware named ‘SatanCryptor’ was discovered. After it performs file encryption, it will drop a ransom note named “ SATAN CRYPTOR .hta” and append ‘.satan’ as a file extension to the encrypted files. In addition, SatanCryptor will delete itself after the execution t...

CVE-2020-1603

Specific IPv6 packets sent by clients processed by the Routing Engine RE are improperly handled. These IPv6 packets are designed to be blocked by the RE from egressing the RE. Instead, the RE allows these specific IPv6 packets to egress the RE, at which point a mbuf memory leak occurs within the...

January 14, 2020—KB4534314 (Security-only update)

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How to Use VMware Carbon Black’s Real-Time Endpoint Query to Identify BlueKeep Vulnerability Risk

Recently, security researchers revealed a Proof of Concept attack that leverages the BlueKeep vulnerability. Whenever this type of news breaks on the twittersphere, organizations are left with the question: "Are we susceptible to this type of attack?" Using CB LiveOps, a real-time endpoint query...

The Scammer Force is Strong with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Whenever the internet lights up in anticipation of anything, there are fraudsters and scammers waiting in the wings to take advantage of it. This week’s premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is no exception, with cybercriminals eyeing one of the world’s most beloved franchises as rich fodd...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: DeathRansom Ransomware

During mid-November, a new ransomware named ‘DeathRansom” was found being distributed. Similar to the other variants of ransomware, it will perform the deletion of volume shadow copies to ensure all the data cannot be restored easily. After the DeathRansom performs file encryption, it will drop...

How We Streamlined Infrastructure and Tooling as a Service for Development

At VMware Carbon Black, we’ve historically acquired a broad technology stack in our journey to build the premier security solution that understands cybercriminal behavior. Inheriting such a variety of tooling and storage solutions presented a challenge for us operationally. So, in order to reduce...