Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices

If you’re one of the 50% of small and medium-sized businesses SMBs that use Mac .devices today, chances are your IT and security teams have a ton of Mac endpoints to monitor. Securing that many endpoints can get really complex, really fast, especially when you consider that the common wisdom that...

SharpEventPersist - Persistence By Writing/Reading Shellcode From Event Log

Persistence by writing/reading shellcode from Event Log. Usage The SharpEventPersist tool takes 4 case-sensitive parameters: -file "C:\path\to\shellcode.bin" -instanceid 1337 -source Persistence -eventlog "Key Management Service". The shellcode is converted to hex and written to the "Key Manageme...

ASyncRat surpasses Dridex, TrickBot and Emotet to become dominant email threat

Earlier this year Malwarebytes released its 2022 Threat Review, a review of the most important threats and cybersecurity trends of 2021, and what they could mean for 2022. Among other things it covers the years alarming rebound in malware detections, and a significant shift in the balance of emai...

The Average SIEM Deployment Takes 6 Months. Don’t Be Average.

If you’re part of the huge growth in demand for cloud-based SIEM Security Information and Event Management, claim your copy of the new Gartner® Report: “How to Deploy a SIEM Solution Successfully.” Depending on what SIEM you choose, and how you approach the process, getting to operational and...

CVE-2022-24706

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2022-04-26 14:36:58+00:00| seen| https://t.me/cibsecurity/41424 2022-04-28 17:51:45+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://t.me/cKure/9439 2022-04-29 17:20:21+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://t.me/ShlezySecChannel/39 2022-05-22...

A week in security (April 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Credential-stealing malware disguises itself as Telegram, targets social media users Old Play Store apps served notice by upcoming API level changes Denonia cryptominer is first malware to target AWS Lambda Ransomware: March 2022 review Why identity management...

Stalkerware-type detections hit record high in 2021, but fell in second half

After having tracked stalkerware for years, Malwarebytes can reveal that in 2021, detections for apps that can non-consensually monitor another persons activity reached their highest peak ever, but that, amidst the record-setting numbers, the volume of detections actually began to significantly...

Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations

For the fourth consecutive year, Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrated its industry-leading protection in MITRE Engenuity’s independent ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations, showcasing the value of an integrated XDR-based defense that unifies device and identity protection with a Zero Trust approach:...

MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation: InsightIDR Drives Strong Signal-to-Noise

Rapid7 is very excited to share the results of our participation in MITRE Engenuity’s latest ATT&CK Evaluation, which examines how adversaries abuse data encryption to exploit organizations. With this evaluation, our customers and the broader security community get a deeper understanding of how...

Demystifying XDR: The Time for Implementation Is Now

In previous installments of our conversation with Forrester Analyst Allie Mellen on all things extended detection and response XDR, she helped us understand not only the foundations of the product category and its relationship with security information and event management SIEM, but also the role...

Icinga Web 2 Detection Consolidation

Consolidation of Icinga Web 2 detections. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only include"pluginfeedinfo.inc"; if description...

Demystifying XDR: How Curated Detections Filter Out the Noise

Extended detection and response XDR is, by nature, a forward-looking technology. By adding automation to human insight, XDR rethinks and redefines the work that has been traditionally ascribed to security information and event management SIEM and other well-defined, widely used tools within...

Creaky Old WannaCry, GandCrab Top the Ransomware Scene

What’s old in ransomware is new again. Or, more accurately, never really went away. New analysis shows that for a years-old malware, WannaCry is still a viciously active pest. The self-propagating ransomware cryptoworm that’s been parasitizing victims since 2017 was the top most detected ransomwa...

Cynet Log4Shell Webinar: A Thorough - And Clear - Explanation

Most security practitioners are now aware of the Log4Shell vulnerability discovered toward the end of 2021. No one knows how long the vulnerability existed before it was discovered. The past couple of months have had security teams scrambling to patch the Log4Shell vulnerability found in Apache...

Microsoft Windows .Reg File - Dialog Spoof / Mitigation Bypass Vulnerability

Exploit Title: Microsoft Windows .Reg File - Dialog Spoof / Mitigation Bypass Exploit Author: John Page aka hyp3rlinx Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFTWINDOWSREGFILEDIALOGSPOOFMITIGATIONBYPASS.txt twitter.com/hyp3rlinx ISR: ApparitionSe...

Attackers Exploit Flaw in Google Docs’ Comments Feature

Attackers are using the “Comments” feature of Google Docs to send malicious links in a phishing campaign targeted primarily at Outlook users, researchers have discovered. Researchers from email collaboration and security firm Avanan, a CheckPoint company, first observed “a new, massive wave of...

Demystifying XDR: A Forrester Analyst Lays the Foundation

Extended detection and response XDR is no longer a future state in cybersecurity practice — it's a full-fledged reality for some. In fact, it's been a thing for a lot longer than you might think. Still, XDR is new vocabulary for many security operations center SOC teams, and the contours of this...

InsightIDR Was XDR Before XDR Was Even a Thing: An Origin Story

An origin story explains who you are and why. Spiderman has one. So do you. Rapid7 began building InsightIDR in 2013. It was the year Yahoo’s epic data breach exposed the names, dates of birth, passwords, and security questions and answers of 3 billion users. Back then, security professionals...

APT trends report Q2 2021

For more than four years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and...

Top Countries With ICS Endpoint Malware Detections

The Trend Micro research paper, "2020 Report on Threats Affecting ICS Endpoints,” presents findings on ICS endpoints and the threats that plague them. From these findings, we rounded up the list of the top ten countries with the most malware and grayware detections...