Intel Halts Spectre Fixes On Older Chips, Citing Limited Ecosystem Support

Intel has halted patches for an array of older chips that would protect them against the Spectre vulnerability, according to a recent microcode update. The microcode update shows that its older products – including Wolfdale, Bloomfield, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jasper Forest, SoFIA 3GR,...

GoScanSSH Malware Targets SSH Servers, But Avoids Military and .GOV Systems

Researchers have identified a new malware family, dubbed GoScanSSH, that targets public facing SSH servers, but avoids those linked to government and military IP addresses. The malware has been in the wild since June 2017 and exhibits a number of unique characteristics, such as being written in t...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid that Mate, Die, and Then Sink

The mating and death characteristics of some squid are fascinating. Research paper. EDITED TO ADD 2/5: Additional info and photos. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

How-To: Replaying Cellular Network Characteristics on Cloud Infrastructure

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Detecting Data Breaches: Why Understanding Database Types Matters

Different data characteristics and access patterns found in different database systems lead to different ways of detecting suspicious data access, which are indicators of potential data breaches. To accurately detect data access abuse we need to classify the database processing type. Is it a...

Bargains and brotherhood: The underground Digital Souks of the Middle East

The release of our report “Digital Souks: A glimpse into the Middle Eastern and North African underground” marks the 12th in our Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series CUES. Having previously published several papers covering the Japanese, French, German, North American, Chinese, Russian and...

Significant FormBook Distribution Campaigns Impacting the U.S. and South Korea

We observed several high-volume FormBook malware distribution campaigns primarily taking aim at Aerospace, Defense Contractor, and Manufacturing sectors within the U.S. and South Korea during the past few months. The attackers involved in these email campaigns leveraged a variety of distribution...

For NXP I. MX microprocessor HAB vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, Foreword NXP（NXP）semiconductor production company i. The MX Series application processor of the Secure Boot features in the presence of two vulnerabilities, two vulnerabilities by Quarkslab the two researchers Guillaume Delugré and Kévin Szkudłapski found this article on the two vulnerabilit...

Threat Round-up for June 16 - June 23

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 16 and June 23. 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 behavior characteristics,...

Based on jemalloc Android exploit skills----CENSUS-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Background description jemalloc-related research argp and huku in 2012 in Phrack published on: jemalloc memory allocator a separate use of themade-based on FreeBSD libc POC. argp and huku in 2012 BlackHat published: in Firefo play bad jemalloc metadata. argp in 2015 INFILTRATE on jemalloc exploit...

Chrome Universal XSS using iterables (CVE-2016-1668)

VULNERABILITY DETAILS From /thirdparty/WebKit/Source/bindings/core/v8/Iterable. h: void forEachForBinding... ... v8::LocalcreationContextscriptState-context-Global; v8::Local v8Callbackthe callback. v8Value. As; v8::Localv8ThisArgmethod performs a stable. v8Value; v8::Local args3; args2 =...

Limon - Sandbox for Analyzing Linux Malwares

Limon is a sandbox developed as a research project written in python, which automatically collects, analyzes, and reports on the run time indicators of Linux malware. It allows one to inspect the Linux malware before execution, during execution, and after execution post-mortem analysis by...

Facebook Can Recognize You Even if You Don't Show Your Face

Well, this is incredible and scary both at the same time. Forget about "facial" recognition; Facebook's newest technology is way good at identifying you in photos even without the need to see your face. The New Scientist is reporting about the Facebook's new "experimental" facial recognition...

Shellter v1.7 - Dynamic ShellCode Injector Tool

Shellter is a dynamic shellcode injection tool, and probably the first dynamic PE infector ever created. It can be used in order to inject shellcode into native Windows applications currently 32-bit apps only. The shellcode can be something yours or something generated through a framework, such a...

[PACK] Password Analysis & Cracking Kit

PACK Password Analysis and Cracking Toolkit is a collection of utilities developed to aid in analysis of password lists in order to enhance password cracking through pattern detection of masks, rules, character-sets and other password characteristics. The toolkit generates valid input files for...

Verizon DBIR Analysis: Opportunistic Attacks Crushing Certain Industries

Regardless of the market or industry, the majority of attacks are financially motivated. Even in data-rich environments such as health care, attackers are still after profits and exploit the same weaknesses and transaction processing systems that are vulnerable in other industries such as hotels...

Authentication Implications in Uniquely Identifiable Graphics Cards

Researchers working on the “physically unclonable functions found in standard PC components PUFFIN project” announced last week that widely used graphics processors could be the next step in online authentication. PUFFIN is a joint project between Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in the...

Poll Finds Security Practitioners Falsely Believe They're Protected Against APTs

If a recent poll of 1,000 security professionals is any indication, there remains a significant learning gap in understanding advanced persistent threats – and therefore building a strong defense to resist them. The survey conducted by FireEye’s Malware Intelligence Lab showed nearly 60 percent o...

Create System Characteristics for NIST Windows OVAL Definitions

Create a System Characteristics elements as defined by the OVAL specification for NIST Windows.xml and store it in the Knowledge Base. Note: The created System Characteristics are shown in a separate VT SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a...

An Interview With Telex's J. Alex Halderman

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Waterloo have developed a proxy system called Telex that provides a method for users to circumvent state-level censorship of the Web. It uses an architecture that includes a proxy at the ISP level and uses connections to...