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New Tomiris Backdoor Found Linked to Hackers Behind SolarWinds Cyberattack
Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday disclosed a previously undocumented backdoor likely designed and developed by the Nobelium advanced persistent threat APT behind last year's SolarWinds supply chain attack, joining the threat actor's ever-expanding arsenal of hacking tools...
VMware vCenter vScalation Priv Esc
This module exploits a privilege escalation in vSphere/vCenter due to improper permissions on the /usr/lib/vmware-vmon/java-wrapper-vmon file. It is possible for anyone in the cis group to write to the file, which will execute as root on vmware-vmon service restart or host reboot. This module was...
Ditch the Alert Cannon: Modernizing IDS is a Security Must-Do
After more than 20 years of underwhelming results, security leaders have accepted their intrusion detection system IDS programs as no more than a compliance checkoff. It’s no secret that IDS’s reliance on bi-modal signatures is brittle, easily evaded and often referred to as an “alert cannon.” Ti...
Design/Logic Flaw
Dell EMC Data Protection Search, 19.4 and prior, and IDPA, 2.6.1 and prior, contain an Information Exposure in Log File Vulnerability in CIS. A local low privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the disclosure of certain user credentials. The attacker may be ab...
How to Mitigate Microsoft Windows 10, 11 SeriousSAM Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11 users are at risk of a new unpatched vulnerability that was recently disclosed publicly. As we reported last week, the vulnerability — SeriousSAM — allows attackers with low-level permissions to access Windows system files to perform a Pass-the-Hash and...
Input validation
A vulnerability in the restricted shell of Cisco Evolved Programmable Network EPN Manager, Cisco Identity Services Engine ISE, and Cisco Prime Infrastructure could allow an authenticated, local attacker to identify directories and write arbitrary files to the file system. This vulnerability is du...
MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 9: Assigned Analyst Pods and Security Program Advisors
This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” Every organization is unique, with different goals, missions, security maturities, staffing models, technologies...
Fake Ad Blocker Delivers Hybrid Cryptominer/Ransomware Infection
At its previous peak in February, the Monero Miner cryptocurrency ransominer was targeting more than 2,500 users a day, disguised as an antivirus installer. Now, the tricky hybrid malware is on the rise again, this time impersonating an ad blocker and OpenDNS service. In total, it has infected mo...
Wynis - Audit Windows Security With Best Practice
Just a powershell scripts for auditing security with CIS BEST Practices Windows 10 and Window Server 2016 You just need to run the script, it will create a directory named : AUDITCONF%DATE% The directory output will contain the files belows: -Antivirus-%COMPUTERNAME% : List installed Antivirus...
How to Create an OS-Based Policy Scanning Workflow in InsightVM
When you first start setting up InsightVM, the No. 1 thing you should be focused on is building sites, running scans, and kicking off reports to start building your vulnerability management program. Once you start feeling comfortable with the vulnerability management flow, policy scanning should ...
Auto-Discover and Secure Middleware Instances in Your Environment
Enterprise middleware plays a critical role in bringing together many moving parts within an organization, ensuring efficient collaboration, seamless integration and interoperability. A systematic evaluation of middleware architectures is important to thoroughly assess the overall security and...
cis-cargo.de Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1383760
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
CIS Releases 2019 Year in Review
The Center for Internet Security CIS has released its 2019 Year in Review. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center MS-ISAC, a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA partner focused on cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S...
How to Improve Azure Security with CIS Benchmarks
View Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Conformity in action! Read along as Chuck walks you through how to run a CIS report to see how to improve and remediate misconfigurations via a Conformity Bot...
cis.hku.hk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1216010
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
Knowing your shared security responsibility in Microsoft Azure and avoiding misconfigurations
Trend Micro is excited to launch new Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity capabilities that will strengthen protection for Azure resources. As with any launch, there is a lot of new information, so we decided to sit down with one of the founders of Conformity, Mike Rahmati. Mike is a technologist a...
Qualys Adds Cloud Agent Linux Support for AWS ARM-Based EC2 Instances
Releasing this week May 26, 2020, Qualys adds Cloud Agent Linux support for Amazon Web Services EC2 instances powered by ARM processors including the new Graviton2 processor. AWS Graviton2 processors power Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances that provide up to 40% better price performance over...
Policy Compliance Library Updates, May 2020
Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...
Principles of a Cloud Migration – Security W5H – The WHERE
“Wherever I go, there I am” -Security I recently had a discussion with a large organization that had a few workloads in multiple clouds while assembling a cloud security focused team to build out their security policy moving forward. It’s one of my favorite conversations to have since I’m not jus...
fedora.cis.cau.edu Improper Access Control vulnerability
Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1156550 Security Researcher Gh05tPT Helped patch 6892 vulnerabilities Received 10 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 48 recommendations , a holder of 10 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting fedora.cis.cau.edu websi...