Ubiquitous Bug Allows HIPAA-Protected Malware to Hide Behind Medical Images

A bug in a 30-year-old standard used for the exchange and storage of medical images has been uncovered; it allows an adversary to embed fully-functioning executable code into the image files captured by medical devices such as CT and MRI machines. This results in hybrid files that allow malware...

Carbon Black’s Global Incident Response Threat Report: The Ominous Rise of “Island Hopping” & Counter Incident Response Continues

To stay abreast of the current attack landscape and to quantify the latest attack trends seen by leading IR firms, Carbon Black is publishing its third Global Incident Response Threat Report GIRTR since introducing it in July 2018. Aggregating qualitative and quantitative input from 40 Carbon Bla...

Commando VM - The First of Its Kind Windows Offensive Distribution

Welcome to CommandoVM - a fully customized, Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming. Installation Install Script Requirements Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 10 60 GB Hard Drive 2 GB RAM Instructions 1. Create and configure a new Windows Virtual Machine...

CarbonCopy - A Tool Which Creates A Spoofed Certificate Of Any Online Website And Signs An Executable For AV Evasion

A tool which creates a spoofed certificate of any online website and signs an Executable for AV Evasion. Works for both Windows and Linux. Download CarbonCopy...

Dissecting a NETWIRE Phishing Campaign's Usage of Process Hollowing

Introduction Malware authors attempt to evade detection by executing their payload without having to write the executable file on the disk. One of the most commonly seen techniques of this "fileless" execution is code injection. Rather than executing the malware directly, attackers inject the...

Breaking the Bank: Weakness in Financial AI Applications

Currently, threat actors possess limited access to the technology required to conduct disruptive operations against financial artificial intelligence AI systems and the risk of this targeting type remains low. However, there is a high risk of threat actors leveraging AI as part of disinformation...

Legion - An Easy-To-Use, Super-Extensible And Semi-Automated Network Penetration Testing Tool That Aids In Discovery, Reconnaissance And Exploitation Of Information Systems

Legion, a fork of SECFORCE's Sparta, is an open source, easy-to-use, super-extensible and semi-automated network penetration testing framework that aids in discovery, reconnaissance and exploitation of information systems. Legion is developed and maintained by GoVanguard. More information about...

Semi-Automated Network Penetration Testing Framework: Legion

Legion, a fork of SECFORCE’s Sparta, is an open source, easy-to-use, super-extensible and semi-automated network penetration testing framework that aids in discovery, reconnaissance and exploitation of information systems. Legion is developed and maintained by GoVanguard. Features Automatic recon...

Phantom Evasion - Python AV Evasion Tool Capable To Generate FUD Executable Even With The Most Common 32 Bit Metasploit Payload (Exe/Elf/Dmg/Apk)

Phantom-Evasion is an interactive antivirus evasion tool written in python capable to generate almost FUD executable even with the most common 32 bit msfvenom payload lower detection ratio with 64 bit payloads. The aim of this tool is to make antivirus evasion an easy task for pentesters through...

Combing Through Brushaloader Amid Massive Detection Uptick

Nick Biasini and Edmund Brumaghin authored this blog post with contributions from Matthew Molyett. Executive Summary Over the past several months, Cisco Talos has been monitoring various malware distribution campaigns leveraging the malware loader Brushaloader to deliver malware payloads to...

Ever-Changing Emotet Evolves Again with Fresh Evasion Tactic

The Emotet trojan has seen a spike in activity in the last month, with a campaign that once again showcases its ability to evolve quickly: It’s now employing a different delivery mechanism than has previously been seen, in what appears to be an effective tactic for evasion. Emotet, which has beco...

Suspicious Evasion In HTTP Headers

Certain evasion tools can use evasion techniques in order to circumvent inspection by security software. A remote attacker could use evasion methods in order to execute arbitrary code on the target system...

Redaman Spams Russian Banking Customers with Rotating Tactics

The Redaman banking trojan ramped up its activity in the last part of 2018, employing ongoing back-end changes in order to evade detection, according to a new Wednesday report. Redaman as a malware first came on the scene in 2015, and since then has consistently targeted victims that use Russian...

New Android Malware Apps Use Motion Sensor to Evade Detection

Even after so many efforts by Google for preventing its Play Store from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and get into its service to infect Android users with malware. Two such Android apps have recently been spotted on the Google Play Store by security...

New Android Malware Apps Use Motion Sensor to Evade Detection

Even after so many efforts by Google for preventing its Play Store from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and get into its service to infect Android users with malware. Two such Android apps have recently been spotted on the Google Play Store by security...

Zero Trust and the Case for Application Microsegmentation

Data breaches have become incessant. Recently, a very popular airline sevices company revealed a suspected breach involving customer credit card information. Even more recently, a hospital in Indiana reported that a virus had infected some of its systems that caused the hospital to be placed on...

New Frontiers In Cryptojacking

Tejas Girme & Rishikesh Bhide of Qualys Malware Research Labs present “New Frontiers in Cryptojacking” at the 21st Anti-Virus Asia Researchers International Conference AVAR 2018 in Goa, India. Cryptojacking attacks are evolving over time to better evade detection by both end users and protection...

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...

Debian DLA-1603-1 : suricata security update

Several issues were found in suricata, an intrusion detection and prevention tool. CVE-2017-7177 Suricata has an IPv4 defragmentation evasion issue caused by lack of a check for the IP protocol during fragment matching. CVE-2017-15377 It was possible to trigger lots of redundant checks on the...