Operational Readiness and Response to the Ukraine Crisis

Akamai’s security and network teams use our vast view of internet activity to closely monitor and act upon potential cyber threats, and we are taking appropriate measures to review our defensive posture and ensure the integrity of Akamai systems and the Akamai network...

TrickBot Gang Likely Shifting Operations to Switch to New Malware

TrickBot, the infamous Windows crimeware-as-a-service CaaS solution that's used by a variety of threat actors to deliver next-stage payloads like ransomware, appears to be undergoing a transition of sorts, with no new activity recorded since the start of the year. The lull in the malware campaign...

Looking Over the Nation-State Actors’ Shoulders

Looking over the nation-state actors’ shoulders: Even they have a difficult day sometimes By Trellix and Marc Elias · Febraury 17, 2022 Have you ever been curious about how nation-state actors operate and what their day-to-day work looks like? This blog reveals some of these details observed base...

Prudent Cybersecurity Preparation for the Potential Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Update Feb 24, 2022: The situation in Ukraine has worsened since this blog post was first published, though our preparation advice remains the same. We will update the Rapid7 blog with a new post as events warrant. Tensions between Russia and Ukraine remain elevated, with a high degree of...

Hitachi Energy PCM600 Update Manager

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.7 Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: PCM600 Update Manager Vulnerability: Improper Certificate Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass the certificate validation and install an untrusted software...

New Federal Government Cybersecurity Incident and Vulnerability Response Playbooks

The White House, via Executive Order EO 14028: Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, tasked CISA, as the operational lead for federal cybersecurity, to “develop a standard set of operational procedures i.e., playbook to be used in planning and conducting cybersecurity vulnerability and incident...

sqlite: dropping of shadow tables not restricted in defensive mode

Insufficient data validation in SQLite in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to bypass defense-in-depth measures via a crafted HTML page...

Security Tool Guts: How Much Should Customers See?

Many cybersecurity tools use engines that calculate risk for events in customer environments. The accuracy of these risk engines is a major concern for customers, since it determines whether an attack is detected or not. Therefore, organizations often request visibility into how a risk engine...

ALSA-2021:4396 Moderate: sqlite security update

SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. A large subset of SQL92 is supported. A complete database is stored in a single disk file. The API is designed for convenience and ease of use. Applications that link against SQLite can enjoy the power and flexibility of an SQL databas...

New Attack Lets Hackers Collect and Spoof Browser's Digital Fingerprints

A "potentially devastating and hard-to-detect threat" could be abused by attackers to collect users' browser fingerprinting information with the goal of spoofing the victims without their knowledge, thus effectively compromising their privacy. Academics from Texas A&M University dubbed the attack...

Advantech WebAccess SCADA

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess/SCADA Vulnerabilities: Cross-site Scripting XSS, Relative Path Traversal, Stack-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities...

TiEtwAgent - PoC Memory Injection Detection Agent Based On ETW, For Offensive And Defensive Research Purposes

This project was created to research, build and test different memory injection detection use cases and bypass techniques. The agent utilizes Microsoft-Windows-Threat-Intelligence event tracing provider, as a more modern and stable alternative to Userland-hooking, with the benefit of Kernel-mode...

vulhub

This repository is an offensive tool for creating vulnerable environments based on Docker-Compose. It is a pre-built collection of vulnerable environments for testing and practicing defensive security skills. The repository contains various vulnerable environments, including CouchDB, FFmpeg, Git,...

Exacq Technologies exacqVision Web Service

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Exacq Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson Controls Inc. Equipment: exacqVision Web Service Vulnerability: Cross-site Scripting 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability...

MITRE introduces D3FEND framework

The US National Security Agency NSA has announced it will fund the development of a knowledge base of defensive countermeasures for the most common techniques used by malicious threat actors. The project will be made available through MITRE and will be called D3FEND as it complements MITRE’s...

The Future of Machine Learning and Cybersecurity

The Center for Security and Emerging Technology has a new report: "Machine Learning and Cybersecurity: Hype and Reality." Heres the bottom line: The report offers four conclusions: Machine learning can help defenders more accurately detect and triage potential attacks. However, in many cases thes...

Johnson Controls Metasys

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Johnson Controls Equipment: Metasys Servers, Engines, and Tools Vulnerability: Improper Privilege Management 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could give an authenticated...

Kill chains: Part 1→Strategic and operational value

It really is a good thing The term “kill chain” sounds extremely harsh. Almost as if after something is killed, it gets moved down the chain to be killed again. How dramatic! Indeed, the original definition was to describe how an enemy combatant of the military might attack; that is, the steps th...

Johnson Controls Exacq Technologies exacqVision

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.0 Vendor: Exacq Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson Controls, Inc. Equipment: exacqVision Vulnerability: Off-by-one Error 2. RISK EVALUATION A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain “Super User” access to the underlying Ubuntu Linux...

ysoserial

This is a Java tool called ysoserial, which generates payloads that exploit unsafe Java object deserialization. The tool is designed to create gadgets that can be used to execute arbitrary code on a Java application that performs unsafe deserialization. The tool takes a user-specified command and...