PT-2022-9050

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform versions 4.1, 4.2 Description The issue is related to insufficient encoding of user-controlled inputs in BI Launchpad and CMC, resulting in a Cross-Site Scripting XSS issue. The exploit is...

Microsoft Blocks Iran-linked Lebanese Hackers Targeting Israeli Companies

Microsoft on Thursday said it took steps to disable malicious activity stemming from abuse of OneDrive by a previously undocumented threat actor it tracks under the chemical element-themed moniker Polonium. In addition to removing the offending accounts created by the Lebanon-based activity group...

Trellix Global Defenders: Follina — Microsoft Office Zero-Day (CVE-2022-30190)

Trellix Global Defenders: Follina — Microsoft Office Zero-Day CVE-2022-30190 By Taylor Mullins, Robin Noyce, Benjamin Marandel · June 3, 2022 Trellix is continuing to monitor the threat activity associated with the Microsoft Office Zero-Day vulnerability that has been dubbed “Follina.”...

Exposing POLONIUM activity and infrastructure targeting Israeli organizations

Microsoft successfully detected and disabled attack activity abusing OneDrive by a previously undocumented Lebanon-based activity group Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC tracks as POLONIUM. The associated indicators and tactics were used by the OneDrive team to improve detection of attac...

Exposing POLONIUM activity and infrastructure targeting Israeli organizations

Microsoft successfully detected and disabled attack activity abusing OneDrive by a previously undocumented Lebanon-based activity group Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC tracks as POLONIUM. The associated indicators and tactics were used by the OneDrive team to improve detection of attac...

Being Prepared for Adversarial Attacks

There is no question that the level of threats facing today’s businesses continues to change on a daily basis. So what are the trends that CISOs need to be on the lookout for? For this episode of the Threatpost podcast, I am joined by Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist & VP Global Threat...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Security Intelligence Bypass

The vulnerability of the Security Intelligence channel function in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense’s microprogramming system is related to the improper processing of unexpected data types. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to bypass the Security Intelligence DNS channel by...

PT-2022-4933

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform Visual Difference Application versions 420, 430 Description The issue allows an authenticated attacker with access to the BI admin console to send crafted queries and extract data from the SQ...

Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs

Dealing with a great amount of data can be time consuming, thus using Python can be very powerful to help analysts sort information and extract the most relevant data for their investigation. The open-source tools library, MSTICPy, for example, is a Python tool dedicated to threat intelligence. I...

Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs

Dealing with a great amount of data can be time consuming, thus using Python can be very powerful to help analysts sort information and extract the most relevant data for their investigation. The open-source tools library, MSTICPy, for example, is a Python tool dedicated to threat intelligence. I...

Researcher Spotlight: Martin Lee, EMEAR lead, Talos Strategic Communications

Who knew you could connect Moses to threat intelligence? By Jon Munshaw. When the security community usually thinks about the origins of cybersecurity and threat intelligence, the conversation may quickly center around the codebreakers in World War II or the Creeper software developed... This is...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Security Intelligence DNS Feed Bypass (cisco-sa-ftd-sidns-bypass-3PzA5pO)

A vulnerability in the Security Intelligence feed feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the Security Intelligence DNS feed. This vulnerability is due to incorrect feed update processing. An attacker could exploit this...

Android apps with millions of downloads exposed to high-severity vulnerabilities

Microsoft uncovered high-severity vulnerabilities in a mobile framework owned by mce Systems and used by multiple large mobile service providers in pre-installed Android System apps that potentially exposed users to remote albeit complex or local attacks. The vulnerabilities, which affected apps...

Android apps with millions of downloads exposed to high-severity vulnerabilities

Microsoft uncovered high-severity vulnerabilities in a mobile framework owned by mce Systems and used by multiple large mobile service providers in pre-installed Android System apps that potentially exposed users to remote albeit complex or local attacks. The vulnerabilities, which affected apps...

Managed detection and response in 2021

Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response MDR helps organizations to complement existing detection capabilities or to expand limited in-house resources to protect their infrastructure from the growing number and complexity of threats in real time. We collect telemetry from clients networks and...

How the Saitama backdoor uses DNS tunnelling

Thanks to the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence Team for the information they provided for this article. Understandably, a lot of cybersecurity research and commentary focuses on the act of breaking into computers undetected. But threat actors are often just as concerned with the act of breaking o...

Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Deployment Intelligence app for IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to using components with known vulnerabilities

Summary The product includes vulnerable components e.g., framework libraries that may be identified and exploited with automated tools. IBM QRadar Deployment Intelligence app for IBM QRadar SIEM has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2020-24025 DESCRIPTION: node-sass...

How to Develop Machine Learning Skills for Every Employee in Your Company

Everyone loves Artificial Intelligence AI and Data Science DS, and it’s probably not going to change for the next decade or so. Even so, most people only have the general idea what data science is and what machine learning or AI algorithms can do. This is quite normal and a common phenomenon for...

Open Source Intelligence May Be Changing Old-School War

Intelligence collected from public information online could be impacting traditional warfare and altering the calculus between large and small powers...

Get to Know Patrick Flynn

Meet Patrick Flynn Head of Advanced Programs Group at Trellix Threat Labs By Michael Alicea · May 24, 2022 At Trellix, we celebrate and champion our people. This week, I sat down with Pat Flynn, Head of Advanced Programs Group for Trellix Threat Labs. His job is a critical one and how he goes abo...