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...

New Ransomware Spreading Rapidly in China Infected Over 100,000 PCs

A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack... and the number of infected users is continuously increasing every hour. What's Interesting? Unlike almost every ransomwar...

CVE-2018-12239

Norton prior to 22.15; Symantec Endpoint Protection SEP prior to 12.1.7454.7000 & 14.2; Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition SEP SBE prior to NIS-22.15.1.8 & SEP-12.1.7454.7000; and Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud SEP Cloud prior to 22.15.1 may be susceptible to an AV bypass...

FAST or Burp or both?

By @aLLy , Wallarm Research Hello guys, time to talk details about Wallarm FAST Framework for Application Security Testing. It’s a new automatic web vulnerability scanning and fuzzing detection tool by Wallarm Inc. It is well suited for security researchers in enterprise Red Teams as well as for...

Olympic Destroyer Wiper Changes Up Infection Routine

Olympic Destroyer, the wiper malware that briefly disrupted the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea earlier this year, appears to be back with a new first-stage dropper variant. It contains a few significant changes that indicate an evolution for the APT group behind it, according to researchers...

Threat Roundup for Oct. 26 to Nov. 2

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 26 and Nov. 02. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

Who Is Agent Tesla?

A powerful, easy-to-use password stealing program known as Agent Tesla has been infecting computers since 2014, but recently this malware strain has seen a surge in popularity -- attracting more than 6,300 customers who pay subscription fees to license the software. Although Agent Tesla includes ...

Old dog, new tricks - Analysing new RTF-based campaign distributing Agent Tesla, Loki with PyREbox

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin and Holger Unterbrink with contributions from Emmanuel Tacheau. Executive Summary Cisco Talos has discovered a new malware campaign that drops the sophisticated information-stealing trojan called "Agent Tesla," and other malware such as the Loki...

Shining a Light on a New Technique for Stealth Persistence

Red teamers like myself and my team are driven by a desire to out-innovate the bad guys – to help the good guys. We study their methods, strive to think like they do, work to better understand attacker techniques and test our mettle against the spectrum of technologies in use today to find new wa...

Malware Has a New Way to Hide on Your Mac

By only checking a file's code signature when you install it—and never again—macOS gives malware a chance to evade detection indefinitely...

Adwind RAT Scurries By AV Software With New DDE Variant

A newly-discovered spam campaign is spreading the Adwind 3.0 remote-access tool RAT – and using a fresh take on the Dynamic Data Exchange DDE code-injection technique for anti-virus evasion. The spam campaign features two types of droppers that leverage a new variant to the already-known DDE...

Delphi Packer Looks for Human Behavior Before Deploying Payload

As bad actors continue to innovate in the area of sandbox evasion, the use of the Delphi programming language to pack malware code has become more and more prevalent. Researchers recently observed several spam campaigns using a specific packer written in Delphi that goes to great lengths to hunt...

Mail Security Testing Framework

Mail Security Testing Framework is a testing framework for mail security and filtering solutions. The mail security testing framework works with with Python =3.5. Just pull this repository and go ahead. No further dependencies are required. Usage The script mail-tester.py runs the tests. Read the...

Bypassing Antivirus for Your Antivirus Bypass

Chances are you have heard about how easy it can be to evade antivirus. Often, this is because the signatures used by vendors are too simplistic and can be successfully duped without changing the functionality of the malware. Have you ever attempted to evade AV? Is it really that easy? In this bl...

Carbon Black Report: A Case Study on Threat Hunting

There are certain seminal experiences you’ll remember all your life — your first kiss, your college graduation, the smell of your favorite home-cooked meal — and then hundreds of mini-experiences that helped you reach each milestone that in short order disappeared from view. The memories you carr...

Osiris Banking Trojan Displays Modern Malware Innovation

After staying dormant for few years, the Kronos banking trojan resurfaced in July in a form dubbed Osiris. A wider analysis of how the banking trojan is evolving shows innovative development on the part of its authors, with an eye to broader malware trends. Osiris first appeared in July in three...

Comparison of Open Source Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed If you liked my older post titled "List of Adversary Emulation Tools", I am sure you must want to know what is the difference or comparison between the different tools. This post is an attempt to do just that -to list down the comparison of open source adversary emulation tools...