macOS Fruitfly Backdoor Analysis Renders New Spying Capabilities

LAS VEGAS—The FruitFly backdoor became a known entity in January, but it’s a good bet that for years it had been in the wild, undetected by analysts and security software. The macOS and OS X malware has a number of insidious spying capabilities that would make anyone uneasy, and a variant recentl...

FBI Releases Article on Privacy Risks Associated with Internet-Connected Children's Toys

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on the privacy risks associated with Internet-connected children's toys. FBI warns that Internet-connected toys may contain "sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, and other multimedia capabilities - including speech...

What is the hype around Firewall as a Service?

Admit it. Who would not want their firewall maintenance grunt work to go away? For more than 20 years, companies either managed their edge firewall appliances or had service providers rack-and-stack appliances in their data centers and did it for them. This was called a managed firewall — an...

Announcing the July ‘17 Release of Cb Defense

Editor's Note: If you are looking for the May 2017 Cb Defense release content, please scroll to the bottom of this page. This week, we’re happy to announce the rollout of the July ‘17 update of Cb Defense. Following the May ‘17 release, we heard a tremendous amount of positive feedback on the new...

Running an Effective Incident Response Tabletop Exercise

Are you ready for an incident? Are you confident that your team knows the procedures, and that the procedures are actually useful? An incident response tabletop exercise is an excellent way to answer these questions. Below, Ive outlined some steps to help ensure success for your scenario-based...

New ransomware, old techniques: Petya adds worm capabilities

Note: We have published a follow-up blog entry on this ransomware attack. We have new findings from our continued investigation, as well as platform mitigation and protection information: Windows 10 platform resilience against the Petya ransomware attack. Read our latest comprehensive report on...

System Integrity Management Platform: SIMP

System Integrity Management Platform The System Integrity Management Platform SIMP is an Open Source framework designed around the concept that individuals and organizations should not need to repeat the work of automating the basic components of their operating system infrastructure. Expanding...

Mexican Journalists, Lawyers Focus of Government Spyware

Dozens of Mexican journalists, lawyers, and even a child, had their devices infected with commercially produced spyware during the past two years as part of an overarching campaign believed to be carried out by the nation’s government. The spyware, Pegasus, came in the form of text messages...

First-Ever Data Stealing Malware Found Using Intel AMT Tool to Bypass Firewall

It's not hard for a well-funded state-sponsored hacking group to break into corporate networks and compromise systems with malware, but what's challenging for them is to keep that backdoor and its communication undetectable from a firewall and other network monitoring applications. However, a...

WannaCry coda: Have you disabled SMBv1?

By now, if you're reading this blog, you probably have read about WannaCry. If not, please take a moment to review: Wanna Decryptor WNCRY Ransomware Explained Using Threat Intelligence to Mitigate Wanna Decryptor WannaCry WannaCry Update: Vulnerable SMB Shares Are Widely Deployed And People Are...

CVE-2017-0595

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libstagefright in Mediaserver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are n...

CVE-2017-0596

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libstagefright in Mediaserver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are n...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libstagefright in Mediaserver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are n...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libstagefright in Mediaserver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are n...

Microsoft's New Security Update Guides Get Mixed Reviews

Microsoft is receiving mixed reviews for its shift to delivering security update information via its newly launched Security Update Guides. The change was official in April, with Microsoft explaining it would allow system administrators to effectively pair specific patches with vulnerabilities, a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: ghostscript-9.20-10.fc26

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language and an interpreter for Portable Document Format PDF files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many...

Access Restriction Bypass

github.com/opencontainers/runc is vulnerable to attackers bypassing access restrictions. This is possible when ambient capabilities are enabled but misconfigured. It would allow malicious images to bypass user permissions and access other files within the file system and other mounted volumes. Th...

Updated capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7

Updated capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 About this update This update adds capabilities to some computers that lets users easily learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10. Before you install this update, see the Prerequisites section. For more information about...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: ghostscript-9.20-8.fc26

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language and an interpreter for Portable Document Format PDF files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Telephony component could enable a local malicious application to access capabilities outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it could be used to gain access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessibl...