The Gap in Your Zero Trust Implementation

Over the last several years, there have been numerous high-profile security breaches. These breaches have underscored the fact that traditional cyber defenses have become woefully inadequate and that stronger defenses are needed. As such, many organizations have transitioned toward a zero trust...

A guide to combatting human-operated ransomware: Part 1

This blog is part one of a two-part series focused on how Microsoft DART helps customers with human-operated ransomware. For more guidance on human-operated ransomware and how to defend against these extortion-based attacks, refer to our human-operated ransomware docs page. Microsoft’s Detection...

Former US Intelligence Operatives Admit They Hacked for UAE

Plus: Remote learning spyware, an AT bribery scandal, and more of the week's top security news...

SANS 2021 Threat Hunting Survey: How Organizations' Security Postures Have Evolved in the New Normal

It's that time of year once again: The SANS Institute — the most trusted resource for cybersecurity research — has conducted its sixth annual Threat Hunting Survey, sponsored by Rapid7. The goal of this survey is to better understand the current threat hunting landscape and the benefits provided ...

Exploitation of the CVE-2021-40444 vulnerability in MSHTML

Summary Last week, Microsoft reported the remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2021-40444 in the MSHTML browser engine. According to the company, this vulnerability has already been used in targeted attacks against Microsoft Office users. In attempt to exploit this vulnerability, attackers...

CVE-2021-33696

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Crystal Report, versions - 420, 430, does not sufficiently encode user controlled inputs and therefore an authorized attacker can exploit a XSS vulnerability, leading to non-permanently deface or modify displayed content from a Web site...

PT-2021-20274

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform SAPUI5 versions 420, 430 Description: The issue allows an unauthenticated attacker to redirect users to a malicious site due to Reverse Tabnabbing vulnerabilities. This occurs under certain...

PT-2021-20273

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Crystal Report versions 420, 430 Description: The issue arises from insufficient encoding of user-controlled inputs, allowing an authorized attacker to exploit a XSS vulnerability. This can...

CVE-2021-33697: Use of Web Link to Untrusted Target with window.opener Access

Under certain conditions, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform SAPUI5, versions - 420, 430, can allow an unauthenticated attacker to redirect users to a malicious site due to Reverse Tabnabbing vulnerabilities...

CVE-2021-33696: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Crystal Report, versions - 420, 430, does not sufficiently encode user controlled inputs and therefore an authorized attacker can exploit a XSS vulnerability, leading to non-permanently deface or modify displayed content from a Web site...

Downtime on Talos Intelligence

TalosIntelligence.com will be down for a short time on Sept. 17 around 10 a.m. ET while we perform some routine maintenance on the site. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We expect the interruption will only last for about 30 minutes. This is only the beginning! Please visit the...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Learn how to stop misinformation threats from nation-state bad actors

Information has long been wielded as an instrument of national power and influence. In today’s digital world, misinformation can also be just as powerful. On a special episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson, Sandra Joyce, Executive Vice President and Head of Mandiant Intelligence at...

Microsoft Warns of Cross-Account Takeover Bug in Azure Container Instances

Microsoft on Wednesday said it remediated a vulnerability in its Azure Container Instances ACI services that could have been weaponized by a malicious actor "to access other customers' information" in what the researchers described as the "first cross-account container takeover in the public...

Pro-PRC Influence Campaign Expands to Dozens of Social Media Platforms, Websites, and Forums in at Least Seven Languages, Attempted to Physically Mobilize Protesters in the U.S.

In June 2019, Mandiant Threat Intelligence first reported to customers a pro-People’s Republic of China PRC network of hundreds of inauthentic accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, that was at that time primarily focused on discrediting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Since then, the...

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR security vulnerability

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR is a software application from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. It provides a security orchestration, automation, and response platform with threat intelligence management and a built-in marketplace. A security vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, which...

TIGMINT - OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) GUI Software Framework

An OSINT Open Source Intelligence software framework with an objective of making cyber investigations more convinient by implementing abstraction mechanisms to hide the background technical complexity also bundling different analysis techniques for social media Intelligence together providing a...

Holy Grail of Security: Answer to ‘Did X Work?’ – Podcast

Get a glass. Pour in one shot of VERIS, aka the Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing engine that generates Verizon’s funny, well-written, incredibly useful, annual Database Investigations Report DBIR. Next, add a shot of MITRE ATT&CK: the curated knowledge repository of reported...

Cybersecurity as Digital Detective Work: DFIR and Its 3 Key Components

Thanks to CSI and the many other crime-solving shows that have grasped our collective imagination for decades, we're all at least somewhat familiar with the field of forensics and its unique appeal. At some point, anyone who's watched these series has probably envisioned themselves in the...

A deep-dive into the SolarWinds Serv-U SSH vulnerability

Several weeks ago, Microsoft detected a 0-day remote code execution exploit being used to attack the SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software in limited and targeted attacks. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC attributed the attack with high confidence to DEV-0322, a group operating out of Chin...

A deep-dive into the SolarWinds Serv-U SSH vulnerability

Several weeks ago, Microsoft detected a 0-day remote code execution exploit being used to attack the SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software in limited and targeted attacks. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC attributed the attack with high confidence to DEV-0322, a group operating out of Chin...