Imperva Shields Against Windows DNS Server RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1350)

Recently, Check Point researchers found a 17-year-old high-profile flaw, SIGRed CVE-2020-1350. The flaw is a wormable, critical vulnerability in the Windows DNS server, and can be triggered by a malicious DNS response. On a zero to 10 scale, this vulnerability has received a CVSS base score of 10...

capa: Automatically Identify Malware Capabilities

capa is the FLARE team’s newest open-source tool for analyzing malicious programs. Our tool provides a framework for the community to encode, recognize, and share behaviors that we’ve seen in malware. Regardless of your background, when you use capa, you invoke decades of cumulative reverse...

TAU Threat Discovery: Conti Ransomware

Conti is a new family of ransomware observed in the wild by the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU. Unlike most ransomware, Conti contains unique features that separate it in terms of performance and focus on network-based targets. Conti uses a large number of independent threads to perform...

Beyond the Endpoint: Why Organizations are Choosing XDR for Holistic Detection and Response

The endpoint has long been a major focal point for attackers targeting enterprise IT environments. Yet increasingly, security bosses are being forced to protect data across the organization, whether it’s in the cloud, on IoT devices, in email, or on-premises servers. Attackers may jump from one...

ThiefQuest Ransomware for the Mac

There's a new ransomware for the Mac called ThiefQuest or EvilQuest. It's hard to get infected: For your Mac to become infected, you would need to torrent a compromised installer and then dismiss a series of warnings from Apple in order to run it. It's a good reminder to get your software from...

EvilQuest Mac Ransomware Has Keylogger, Crypto Wallet-Stealing Abilities

A rare new ransomware strain targeting macOS users has been discovered, called EvilQuest. Researchers say the ransomware is being distributed via various versions of pirated software. EvilQuest, first discovered by security researcher Dinesh Devadoss, goes beyond the normal encryption capabilitie...

docker: Ambient capability usage in containers

The runc version as used in docker 1.12.2 was incorrectly setting ambient capabilities for all processes executed inside containers. This caused processes of non-root users to run with unexpected privileges, allowing them to escalate their privileges to root...

IndigoDrop spreads via military-themed lures to deliver Cobalt Strike

By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes military-themed malicious Microsoft Office documents maldocs to spread Cobalt Strike beacons containing full-fledged RAT capabilities. These maldocs use malicious macros to deliver a multistage and highly modular...

VirusTotal Adds Cynet's Artificial Intelligence-Based Malware Detection

VirusTotal, the famous multi-antivirus scanning service owned by Google, recently announced new threat detection capabilities it added with the help of an Israeli cybersecurity firm. VirusTotal provides a free online service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs to detect malware and...

Shlayer Mac Malware Returns with Extra Sneakiness

A fresh variant of the Shlayer Mac OSX malware with advanced stealth capabilities has been spotted in the wild, actively using poisoned Google search results in order to find its victims. According to researchers at Intego, the malware, like many malware samples before it, is purporting to be an...

Thanos Ransomware First to Weaponize RIPlace Tactic

Researchers have uncovered a new ransomware-as-a-service RaaS tool, called Thanos, which they say is increasing in popularity in multiple underground forums. Thanos is the first ransomware family observed that advertises the use of the RIPlace tactic. RIPlace is a Windows file system technique...

Stack overflow

When making query to DSP capabilities, Stack out of bounds occurs due to wrong buffer length configured for DSP attributes in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in SM8250, SXR2130...

CVE-2020-3625

CVE-2020-3625 concerns a stack-out-of-bounds condition in the DSP capabilities query on Qualcomm SoCs. A wrong buffer length configured for DSP attributes in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, and Snapdragon Mobile (SM8250, SXR2130) enables the vulnerability. The issue affects Qualcomm com...

CVE-2020-3625

When making query to DSP capabilities, Stack out of bounds occurs due to wrong buffer length configured for DSP attributes in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in SM8250, SXR2130...

New US Electronic Warfare Platform

The Army is developing a new electronic warfare pod capable of being put on drones and on trucks. ...the Silent Crow pod is now the leading contender for the flying flagship of the Army's rebuilt electronic warfare force. Army EW was largely disbanded after the Cold War, except for short-range...

VMware Launches Next-Gen SOC Alliance with Splunk, IBM Security, Google Cloud’s Chronicle, Exabeam, and Sumo Logic

Today at Connect 2020, our company's annul cybersecurity conference, we made some exciting announcements, including the creation of a Next-Gen SOC Alliance. The alliance empowers SOC teams with visibility, prevention, detection and response capabilities that can uniquely leverage the VMware fabri...

Warning: Citrix ShareFile Flaw Could Let Attackers Steal Corporate Secrets

Since the past few weeks, software giant Citrix has privately been rolling out a critical software update to its enterprise customers that patches multiple security vulnerabilities affecting Citrix ShareFile content collaboration platform. The security advisory—about which The Hacker News learned...

MITRE ATT&CK APT 29 evaluation proves Microsoft Threat Protection provides deeper end to end view of advanced threats

As attackers use more advanced techniques, it’s even more important that defenders have visibility not just into each of the domains in their environment, but also across them to piece together coordinated, targeted, and advanced attacks. This level of visibility will allow us to get ahead of...

Mass surveillance alone will not save us from coronavirus

As the pattern-shattering truth of our new lives drains heavy—as coronavirus rends routines, raids our wellbeing, and whiplashes us between anxiety and fear—we should not look to mass digital surveillance to bring us back to normal. Already, governments have cast vast digital nets. South Koreans...

Webinar: How MSSPs Can Overcome Coronavirus Quarantine Challenges

The Coronavirus quarantine introduces an extreme challenge for IT and Security teams to maintain secure environments during the mass transition of employees working remotely and the surge in cyberattacks targeting its inherent security weaknesses. In a webinar for security service providers takin...