Behavioral blocking and containment: Transforming optics into protection

In today’s threat landscape—overrun by fileless malware that live off the land, highly polymorphic threats that mutate faster than traditional solutions can keep up with, human-operated attacks that adapt to what adversaries find on compromised machines, and other sophisticated threats—behavioral...

File Containment Vulnerability in the Backend of the Most Earth Group Buying System

The most earth group-buying system is the most professional and powerful GroupOn mode of free open source group-buying system platform. The most earth group purchase system backend file contains a vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to obtain server information...

Report to Your Management with the Definitive ‘IR Management and Reporting’ presentation Template

The realistic approach to security is that incidents occur. While ideally, the CISO would want to prevent all of them, in practice some will succeed to a certain degree—making the ability to efficiently manage an incident response process a mandatory skill for any CISO. Moreover, apart from the...

Download: Definitive 'IR Management and Reporting' Presentation Template

The realistic approach to security is that incidents occur. While ideally, the CISO would want to prevent all of them, in practice, some will succeed to a certain degree—making the ability to efficiently manage an incident response process a mandatory skill for any CISO. Moreover, apart from the...

Introducing Cisco Talos Incident Response: Stories from the Field

By Jon Munshaw. As another way of bringing our boots-on-the-ground intelligence to defenders, customers and users, we are introducing a new video series called "Cisco Talos Incident Response: Stories from the Field." In each entry, a CTIR team member will cover one specific incident or lesson tha...

Malicious 󠅮󠅰󠅭Package

Overview All versions of this package contained malware. The package was designed to find and exfiltrate cryptocurrency wallets. Recommendation Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Insights from one year of tracking a polymorphic threat

A little over a year ago, in October 2018, our polymorphic outbreak monitoring system detected a large surge in reports, indicating that a large-scale campaign was unfolding. We observed as the new threat attempted to deploy files that changed every 20-30 minutes on thousands of devices. We gave...

Changing security incident response by utilizing the power of the cloud—DART tools, techniques, and procedures: part 1

This is the first in a blog series discussing the tools, techniques, and procedures that the Microsoft Detection and Response Team DART use to investigate cybersecurity incidents at our customer organizations. Today, we introduce the team and give a brief overview of each of the tools that utiliz...

CVE-2019-13546

In IntelliSpace Perinatal, Versions K and prior, a vulnerability within the IntelliSpace Perinatal application environment could enable an unauthorized attacker with physical access to a locked application screen, or an authorized remote desktop session host application user to break-out from the...

New Presentation Template: Incident Response Reporting for Management

Every security professional knows it’s only a matter of time before their organization is breached. And even though most security-conscious organizations have implemented procedures and products to facilitate the incident response process, many security decision-makers find much more of a challen...

Think you’ve had a breach? Top 5 things to do

Realising that you may have had a data breach can be the start of a stressful and confusing time. Ideally, you would reach for your carefully crafted and practised incident management plan to guide you through the process. In reality though these plans fall into two camps: They don’t exist yet Th...

Ransomware Protection and Containment Strategies: Practical Guidance for Endpoint Protection, Hardening, and Containment

UPDATE Oct. 30, 2020: We have updated the report to include additional protection and containment strategies based on front-line visibility and response efforts in combating ransomware. While the full scope of recommendations included within the initial report remain unchanged, the following...

Fake News and Pandemics

When the next pandemic strikes, we'll be fighting it on two fronts. The first is the one you immediately think about: understanding the disease, researching a cure and inoculating the population. The second is new, and one you might not have thought much about: fighting the deluge of rumors,...

CVE-2019-12482

An issue was discovered in GPAC 0.7.1. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function gfisomgetoriginalformattype at isomedia/drmsample.c in libgpac.a, as demonstrated by MP4Box...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : cvs (EulerOS-SA-2019-1455)

According to the version of the cvs package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - Array index error in the applyrcschange function in rcs.c in CVS 1.11.23 allows local users to gain privileges via an RCS file containin...

Aike cms backstage file containment vulnerability

Acme CMS is a full-featured, PHP + Mysql architecture, multi-language, responsive display, suitable for personal website construction CMS building system. Acme CMS backend file contains a vulnerability , attackers can use the vulnerability to download system files , to obtain sensitive informatio...

Partner Perspectives: Accelerated Alert Handling from Syncurity and Carbon Black

JP Bourget is the Founder and CSO of Syncurity. One of the key Security Orchestration, Automation and Response SOAR use cases I see every day is alert handling. As more and more organizations adopt EDR solutions, like those offered by Carbon Black, Syncurity IR-Flow is able to speed up the alert...

Partner Perspectives: ThreatConnect and Carbon Black: Incorporating Threat Intel for Quicker Incident Response

Megan Horner is the Director of Product Marketing for ThreatConnect. When it comes to incident response, there’s typically a focus on three main stages: investigation, containment, and remediation. Moving from one stage to the next as efficiently as possible is critical to expediting response...

Caribou Coffee, Bruegger’s Bagels Bitten by Breach

Hundreds of Caribou Coffee and Bruegger’s Bagels stores have been targeted in a point-of-sale POS system data breach that attempted to steal customers’ payment cards. Hackers gained unauthorized access to the company’s POS systems, exposing some customers’ data – including name and credit-card...

krb5: DN container check bypass by supplying special crafted data

MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to circumvent a DN containership check by supplying both a "linkdn" and "containerdn" database argument, or by supplying a DN string which is a left extension of a container DN stri...