RegTech explained: a crucial toolset for the financial industry

Every organization in the financial industry needs to meet certain regulatory obligations, even if it’s just filing a tax return or submitting an annual report. In certain industries, such as financial services, theyve added their own additional sets of rules that must be adhered to. For example,...

Countering a Home Invasion: Modernizing Threat Hunting Best Practices

The recently released VMware Carbon Black Global Incident Threat Report found that incidents of counter incident response IR are occurring in 82 percent of IR engagements. Counter IR involves several tactics, which include: disabling anti-malware scan interface, clearing/deleting logs, using...

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Multiple Vulnerabilities (Oct 2020 CPU)

The version of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher or Oracle Analytics Server 5.5 running on the remote host is 11.1.1.9.x prior to 11.1.1.9.201020, 12.2.1.3.x prior to 12.2.1.3.201020, 12.2.1.4.x prior to 12.2.1.4.201020, or 12.2.5.5.x OAS 5.5 prior to 12.2.5.5.201012. It is, therefore,...

Friday Squid Blogging: Interview with a Squid Researcher

Interview with Mike Vecchione, Curator of Cephalopoda -- now thats a job title -- at the Smithsonian Museum of National History. One reason theyre so interesting is they are intelligent invertebrates. Almost everything that we think of as being intelligent -- parrots, dolphins, etc. -- are...

Threat Roundup for October 23 to October 30

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 23 and Oct. 30. 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...

Unilever CISO on balancing business risks with cybersecurity

Imagine showing up to work every day knowing that your job requires protecting 160,000 employees creating more than 450 products around the world—tea, ice cream, personal care, laundry and dish soaps—across a customer base of more than two and a half billion people every day. Unilever Chief...

Unilever CISO on balancing business risks with cybersecurity

Imagine showing up to work every day knowing that your job requires protecting 160,000 employees creating more than 450 products around the world—tea, ice cream, personal care, laundry and dish soaps—across a customer base of more than two and a half billion people every day. Unilever Chief...

FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent, Credible Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals

On Monday, Oct. 26, KrebsOnSecurity began following up on a tip from a reliable source that an aggressive Russian cybercriminal gang known for deploying ransomware was preparing to disrupt information technology systems at hundreds of hospitals, clinics and medical care facilities across the Unit...

Welcome to ThreatPursuit VM: A Threat Intelligence and Hunting Virtual Machine

Skilled adversaries can deceive detection and often employ new measures in their tradecraft. Keeping a stringent focus on the lifecycle and evolution of adversaries allows analysts to devise new detection mechanisms and response processes. Access to the appropriate tooling and resources is critic...

The NSA is Refusing to Disclose its Policy on Backdooring Commercial Products

Senator Ron Wyden asked, and the NSA didnt answer: The NSA has long sought agreements with technology companies under which they would build special access for the spy agency into their products, according to disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and reporting by Reuters and others...

North Korea-Backed Spy Group Poses as Reporters in Spearphishing Attacks, Feds Warn

The North Korean advanced persistent threat APT group known as Kimsuky is actively attacking commercial-sector businesses, often by posing as South Korean reporters, according to an alert from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA. Kimsuky a.k.a. Hidden Cobra has been...

Unhappy Hour Special: KEGTAP and SINGLEMALT With a Ransomware Chaser

Throughout 2020, ransomware activity has become increasingly prolific, relying on an ecosystem of distinct but co-enabling operations to gain access to targets of interest before conducting extortion. Mandiant Threat Intelligence has tracked several loader and backdoor campaigns that lead to the...

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 5.5.0.0.0 / 12.2.1.3.0 / 12.2.1.4.0 LFI

Exploit Title: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 5.5.0.0.0 / 12.2.1.3.0 / 12.2.1.4.0 - 'getPreviewImage' Directory Traversal/Local File Inclusion Date: 2020-10-27 Exploit Author: Ivo Palazzolo @palaziv Reference: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html Vendor Homepage...

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 5.5.0.0.0 / 12.2.1.3.0 / 12.2.1.4.0 - 'getPreviewImage' Directory Traversal/Local File Inclusion

Exploit Title: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 5.5.0.0.0 / 12.2.1.3.0 / 12.2.1.4.0 - 'getPreviewImage' Directory Traversal/Local File Inclusion Date: 2020-10-27 Exploit Author: Ivo Palazzolo @palaziv Reference: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html Vendor Homepage...

North Korean Advanced Persistent Threat Focus: Kimsuky

Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® version 7 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 7 for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. This joint cybersecurity advisory was coauthored by the Cybersecurity and...

Lock and Code S1Ep18: Finding consumer value in Cybersecurity Awareness Month with Jamie Court

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Jamie Court, president of the non-profit advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, about the consumer value in Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Launched initially ...

Pesidious - Malware Mutation Using Reinforcement Learning And Generative Adversarial Networks

Malware Mutation using Deep Reinforcement Learning and GANs The purpose of the tool is to use artificial intelligence to mutate a malware PE32 only sample to bypass AI powered classifiers while keeping its functionality intact. In the past, notable work has been done in this domain with researche...

Potential for Iranian Cyber Response to U.S. Military Strike in Baghdad

Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is sharing the following information with the cybersecurity community as a primer for assisting in the protection of our Nation’s critical infrastructure in light of the current tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the...

This Week in Security News: Watering Hole Campaign Operation Earth Kitsune Spying on Users’ Systems and Fancy Bear Imposters Are on a Hacking Extortion Spree

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a watering hole campaign Trend Micro dubbed ‘Operation Earth Kitsune’ that is spying on users’ systems through compromised...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (CNVD-2020-59237)

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition OBIEE is a business intelligence BI tool from Oracle Corporation. A security vulnerability exists in the Analytics Actions component in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 5.5.0.0.0, 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0. An attacker could use this...