GHSA-GFV4-2VHM-486M node-fabric is malware

The node-fabric 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 All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry.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...

GHSA-22J5-38QV-PXX7 sqliter is malware

The sqliter 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 All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry.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...

sqliter is malware

The sqliter 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 All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry.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...

nodefabric is malware

The nodefabric 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 All versions have been unpublished from the npm registry.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...

Threat Roundup for July 13-20

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed this week — covering the dates between July 13 and 20. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, we will summarize the threats we've observed by...

GHSA-85FQ-56WQ-GMCF Withdrawn Advisory: mariadb was malware

Withdrawn Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because MariaDB now owns https://www.npmjs.com/package/mariadb and the package is no longer malicious. This link is maintained to preserve external references. Original Description The mariadb package is a piece of malware that steals environmen...

Threat Roundup for June 22-29

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 22 and June 29. 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 behavioral characteristic...

Cb ThreatSight Investigation Reveals RETADUP Worm Leverages AutoIt to Launch Monero Cryptomining Campaign

While monitoring a customer’s environment, the Carbon Black ThreatSight team discovered a series of unusual alerts. Further investigation of the suspect processes revealed these alerts were related to an attacker leveraging the open-source Monero framework to launch a crypto-mining campaign. Afte...

How To Leverage Data Access Analytics for Effective Breach Detection

Detecting and preventing data breaches is a challenge for most, if not all, enterprises. In fact, according to a study released in 2017, 78% of all CISOs are concerned that data breaches go undetected, while only 19% admit they are effective at breach prevention. Simply put, breaches happen almos...

Threat Roundup for June 16-22

As usual, we are bringing you the weekly Threat Roundup to highlight the most prevalent threats we've seen between June 15 and 22. 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 behavior...

Threat Roundup for June 1-15

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 01 and June 15. 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 behavioral characteristic...

Threat Roundup for May 18-25

Welcome to Cisco Talos' weekly Threat Roundup, where we go over some of the most prevalent malware and vulnerabilities we've seen over the past week. 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...

Threat Roundup for May 04 - 11

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

Orangeworm Kwampirs Trojan Detection

The script tries to detect the Orangeworm Kwampirs Trojan via various known Indicators of Compromise IOC. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Threat Roundup for April 6 - 13

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 6 and 13. 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,...

Simple IOC and Incident Response Scanner: Loki

LOKI is a free and simple IOC scanner, a complete rewrite of main analysis modules of our full featured APT Scanner THOR. IOC stands for „Indicators of Compromise“. These indicators can be derived from published incident reports, forensic analyses or malware sample collections in your Lab. LOKI...

Leaked NSA Dump Also Contains Tools Agency Used to Track Other Hackers

A years ago when the mysterious hacking group 'The Shadow Brokers' dumped a massive trove of sensitive data stolen from the US intelligence agency NSA, everyone started looking for secret hacking tools and zero-day exploits. A group of Hungarian security researchers from CrySyS Lab and Ukatemi ha...

Threat Round Up for Feb 9 - Feb 16

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between February 9 and February 16. 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...

New Flash Player zero-day comes inside Office document

Update 2018-02-06: Adobe has released a patch for this vulnerability. More information is available here. We tested this zero-day with a proof-of concept that was made available. Rather than launching it from within Office, we turned it into a drive-by download attack. The animation below shows...

Boomerang spam bombs Malwarebytes forum—not a smart move

Tech support scammers are generally not the best and brightest. As such, they will occasionally post ads for their fake companies in the comment sections here or on the Malwarebytes forums. Last week, however, scammers struggled with configuring their spambots, resulting in spam bombs on the foru...