September is National Preparedness Month: Be Prepared, Not Scared

National Preparedness Month NPM promotes family and community disaster and emergency planning. This year’s theme is “Prepared, Not Scared.” Although most people understand that being prepared is essential to getting through an emergency such as a natural disaster, there is less awareness about th...

Iranian Hackers Launch a New US-Targeted Campaign as Tensions Mount

Three cybersecurity firms have identified phishing attacks stemming from Iran—that may lay the groundwork for something more destructive...

Alert Windows RDP remote vulnerability POC propagation-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 0x00 description 2019 5 August 31, 360 is detected on github someone posted a lead to a remote denial of Service POC codehttps://github.com/n1xbyte/CVE-2019-0708and for windows server 2008 R2 x64 demo video, the proven POC code real and effective. An attacker can use to spread the code of the...

Malicious Package

destroyer-of-worlds is a malicious package. A malicious bash script resides in the package which will execute as a postinstall script. The script deletes system files and creates a large file, fork bomb and an endless loop in an attempt to crash the host...

The Law Being Used to Prosecute Julian Assange Is Broken

Opinion: Julian Assange is being prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a minimally defined statute that can have maximally destructive consequences...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: shotwell-0.31.0-2.fc30

Shotwell is an easy-to-use, fast photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to import photos from your camera or disk, organize them by date and subject matter, even ratings. It also offers basic photo editing, like crop, red-eye correction, color adjustments, and straighten...

DART: the Microsoft cybersecurity team we hope you never meet

If you spent 270 days away from home, not on vacation, you’d want it to be for a good reason. When boarding a plane, sometimes having been pulled out of bed to leave family for weeks on end, I know it’s because one of our customers is in need. It means there is a security compromise and they may ...

CVE-2019-7608

Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 had a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users...

RSA Conference 2019: Data-Wiping Cyberattacks Plague Financial Firms

Over a quarter of surveyed financial institutions reported that they were targeted by destructive cyberattacks over the past year, bent on completely destroying data. That’s according to a new Carbon Black report unveiled at RSA this year. The report, “Modern Bank Heists: The Bank Robbery Shifts ...

Modern Bank Heists: The Bank Robbery Shifts to Cyberspace

The financial sector has long been the target of some of the world’s greatest guilds of thieves, none perhaps more popular than the Dillinger gangs of the 1930s. In the second annual “Modern Bank Heists” report, Carbon Black collaborated with Optiv to survey CISOs at some of the world’s largest...

Attackers Completely Destroy VFEmail's Secure Mail Infrastructure

A catastrophic, smash-and-destroy cyberattack has eliminated the U.S. infrastructure for secure email service VFEmail. It’s a rare example of a purely destructive offensive, apparently unmotivated by financial gain or espionage goals. An attacker wiped out the company’s U.S. servers on Monday...

Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CloudForms Management Engine is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery CSRF. A remote attacker is able to bypass the Ruby on Rails protectfromforgery mechanism by sending a GET request for a destructive action...

OVERRULED: Containing a Potentially Destructive Adversary

Introduction FireEye assesses APT33 may be behind a series of intrusions and attempted intrusions within the engineering industry. Public reporting indicates this activity may be related to recent destructive attacks. FireEye's Managed Defense has responded to and contained numerous intrusions th...

Cisco Coverage for Shamoon 2 & 3

Update Dec. 14, 2018 10:30 CST: Added new Shamoon 3 IOCs Shamoon is a type of destructive malware that has been previously associated with attacks against various organizations in the oil and gas industry that we've been tracking since 2012. A new variant of this threat, identified as Shamoon 2,...

Shamoon Returns to Wipe Systems in Middle East, Europe

ARCHIVED STORY Shamoon Returns to Wipe Systems in Middle East, Europe By Alexandre Mundo · December 14, 2018 Destructive malware has been employed by adversaries for years. Usually such attacks are carefully targeted and can be motivated by ideology, politics, or even financial aims. Destructive...

Shamoon Returns to Wipe Systems in Middle East, Europe

ARCHIVED STORY Shamoon Returns to Wipe Systems in Middle East, Europe By Alexandre Mundo · December 14, 2018 Destructive malware has been employed by adversaries for years. Usually such attacks are carefully targeted and can be motivated by ideology, politics, or even financial aims. Destructive...

Shamoon Reappears, Poised for a New Wiper Attack

A new version of the Shamoon data-wiping malware has emerged, marking the third time the destructive virus has been seen in the wild – and researchers believe a new campaign may be imminent. First spotted in 2012 in the attack on Saudi Aramco, Shamoon has the ability to destroy files on infected...

Top 5 Threat Hunting Myths: “Threat Hunting Is Too Complicated”

The cybersecurity landscape is in a constant state of change and, as many organizations have learned, it’s no longer a matter of if you’ll face a cyberattack, but when. In today’s world, attackers intentionally look normal to evade automated defenses. With the rise of ransomware, fileless and...

Carbon Black Report: Destructive Cyberattacks Increase Ahead of 2018 Midterm Elections

A trade war with China. A fragile agreement with North Korea. A growing fear of Russian hackers. Ahead of the 2018 U.S. midterm congressional elections, geopolitical conflict continues to play out in cyberspace. According to the world’s top incident response IR professionals, politically motivate...

APT38: Details on New North Korean Regime-Backed Threat Group

Today, we are releasing details on the threat group that we believe is responsible for conducting financial crime on behalf of the North Korean regime, stealing millions of dollars from banks worldwide. The group is particularly aggressive; they regularly use destructive malware to render victim...