Threat Roundup for September 4 to September 11

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Sept. 4 and Sept. 11. 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 characteristic...

Nodesass is malware

The nodesass 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 All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry.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 security concer...

GHSA-XFMW-2VMM-579C Nodesass is malware

The nodesass 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 All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry.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 security concer...

GHSA-8GV6-G7VP-HR34 mysqljs is malware

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 All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry.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 security concern...

mysqljs is malware

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 All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry.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 security concern...

North Korea ATM Hack

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch of countries worldwide: This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts among the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agenc...

Cisco Releases Security Advisory for DVMRP Vulnerability in IOS XR Software

Cisco has released a security advisory on a vulnerability—CVE-2020-3566—in the Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol DVMRP feature of Cisco IOS XR software. This vulnerability affects Cisco devices running IOS XR software that have an active interface configured under multicast routing. A...

Emulation of Malicious Shellcode With Speakeasy

In order to enable emulation of malware samples at scale, we have developed the Speakeasy emulation framework. Speakeasy aims to make it as easy as possible for users who are not malware analysts to acquire triage reports in an automated way, as well as enabling reverse engineers to write custom...

Threat Roundup for August 14 to August 21

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Aug. 14 and Aug. 21. 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...

Threat Roundup for July 31 to August 7

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 31 and Aug. 7. 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,...

Bypassing MassLogger Anti-Analysis — a Man-in-the-Middle Approach

The FireEye Front Line Applied Research & Expertise FLARE Team attempts to always stay on top of the most current and emerging threats. As a member of the FLARE Reverse Engineer team, I recently received a request to analyze a fairly new credential stealer identified as MassLogger. Despite the la...

Threat Roundup for July 17 to July 24

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 17 and July 24. 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...

Threat Roundup for July 24 to July 31

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 24 and July 31. 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...

Exploit for Path Traversal in F5 Big-Ip_Access_Policy_Manager

CVE-2020-5902 IoC Detection Tool This script is intended to b...

Threat Roundup for July 10 to July 17

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 10 and July 17. 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...

Threat Roundup for July 3 to July 10

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 3 and July 10. 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,...

Threat Roundup for June 19 to June 26

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 19 and June 26. 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...

Cisco Releases Security Advisory for Telnet Vulnerability in IOS XE Software

Cisco has released a security advisory on a Telnet vulnerability—CVE-2020-10188—affecting Cisco IOS XE devices. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The advisory contains workarounds as well as indicators of compromise. The Cybersecurity and...

Threat Roundup for June 5 to June 12

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 5 and June 12. 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,...

CERT NZ Releases Advisory on Ransomware Campaign

The New Zealand Computer Emergency Response Team CERT NZ has released an advisory on a ransomware campaign leveraging remote access technologies. Malicious cyber actors are targeting organizations’ networks through remote access tools, such as Remote Desktop Protocol and virtual private networks,...