Hijacked Environment Variables

Overview The tkinter package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real securit...

Hijacked Environment Variables

Overview The babelcli package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real securi...

Hijacked Environment Variables

Overview The mysqljs package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real securit...

Hijacked Environment Variables

Overview The node-sqlite package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real...

Hijacked Environment Variables

Overview The fabric-js package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real...

Hijacked Environment Variables

Overview The mssql.js package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real securi...

Hijacked Environment Variables

Overview The nodemssql package is a piece of malware that steals environment variables and sends them to attacker controlled locations. All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry. Recommendation As this package is malware, if you find it installed in your environment, the real...

Threat Round-up for June 30 - July 07

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 30 and July 07. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics,...

Threat Round-up for June 16 - June 23

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 16 and June 23. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics,...

Threat Round-up for June 2 - June 9

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 02 and June 09. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics,...

Guest Post: Bamm Visscher on Detection

Yesterday my friend Bamm Visscher published a series of Tweets on detection. I thought readers might like to digest it as a lightly edited blog post. Here, then, is the first ever as far as I can remember guest post on TaoSecurity Blog. Enjoy. When you receive new threat intel and apply it in you...

Cyber Probe - Capturing, Analysing and Responding to Cyber Attacks

Cyberprobe is a distributed software architecture for monitoring of networks against attack. It consists of two components: cyberprobe, which collects data packets and forwards them over a network in standard streaming protocols; and cybermon which decodes protocols, and invokes user-defined logi...

Portable Malware Analysis Sandbox: Noriben

Portable Malware Analysis Sandbox Noriben is a Python-based script that works in conjunction with Sysinternals Procmon to automatically collect, analyze, and report on runtime indicators of malware. In a nutshell, it allows you to run your malware, hit a keypress, and get a simple text report of...

Noriben - Portable, Simple, Malware Analysis Sandbox

Noriben is a Python-based script that works in conjunction with Sysinternals Procmon to automatically collect, analyze, and report on runtime indicators of malware. In a nutshell, it allows you to run your malware, hit a keypress, and get a simple text report of the sample's activities. Noriben...

FireEye Responds to Wave of Destructive Cyber Attacks in Gulf Region

In 2012, a suspected Iranian hacker group called the “Cutting Sword of Justice” used malware known as Shamoon – or Disttrack. In mid-November, Mandiant, a FireEye company, responded to the first Shamoon 2.0 incident against an organization located in the Gulf states. Since then, Mandiant has...

Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation in the United States. Mozilla Firefox has a security vulnerability. Allow SSL indicators may mislead users about the real URLs visited. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Desktop Firefox is not...

Cobalt Strike team Services is proof of the RCE vulnerability as soon as possible to upgrade to the latest version-bug warning-the black bar safety net

! Security customer reviews Some time ago Metasploit just broke deserialization vulnerability may lead to remote unauthorized execution of code today and broke the Cobalt Strike team Services RCE vulnerability, it appears that the security personnel in the use of these excellent open source tools...

CryptoDrop Early-Warning Ransomware Detector

While most of the discussion around ransomware is rightly so about the unabated stampede of new strains and variations on existing samples, relatively little discourse focuses on detection beyond antivirus and intrusion prevention systems. Some generic ransomware detection systems for Windows and...

Bitcoin Phishing Campaign Uncovered

For the last month, attackers have used a combination of phishing and typosquatting to carry out a campaign aimed at stealing Bitcoin and blockchain wallet credentials. More than 100 phony Bitcoin and blockchain domains have been set up so far, many which mimic legitimate Bitcoin wallets. Most of...

Persistent EITest Malware Campaign Jumps from Angler to Neutrino

A two-year-old EITest malware campaign is still going strong, fueled by the fact it has shifted its distribution technique over time. Now, researchers at the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, are reporting EITest is morphing again based on analysis of the malware campaign conducted earlier...