CVE-2019-4070

IBM Intelligent Operations Center IOC 5.1.0 through 5.2.0 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. IBM...

CVE-2019-4066

IBM Intelligent Operations Center IOC 5.1.0 through 5.2.0 could allow an authenciated user to create arbitrary users which could cause ID management issues and result in code execution. IBM X-Force ID: 157011...

Python-Iocextract - Advanced Indicator Of Compromise (IOC) Extractor

Advanced Indicator of Compromise IOC extractor. Overview This library extracts URLs, IP addresses, MD5/SHA hashes, email addresses, and YARA rules from text corpora. It includes some encoded and "defanged" IOCs in the output, and optionally decodes/refangs them. The Problem It is common practice...

Security Bulletin: IBM® Intelligent Operations Center does not correctly validate file types before uploading files (CVE-2019-4069)

Summary IBM® Intelligent Operations Center does not validate the content of CSV files that are uploaded by authenticated users. The upload of unvalidated CSV files by authenticated users might be a starting point for further attacks if it is combined with file renaming or other inclusion...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12456

An issue was discovered in the MPT3COMMAND case in ctlioctlmain in drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sasctl.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. It allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by changing the value of iocnumber between two kernel reads of that...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12456

An issue was discovered in the MPT3COMMAND case in ctlioctlmain in drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sasctl.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. It allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by changing the value of iocnumber between two kernel reads of that...

Hackers Infect 50,000 MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin Servers with Rootkit Malware

Cyber Security researchers at Guardicore Labs today published a detailed report on a widespread cryptojacking campaign attacking Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin servers worldwide. Dubbed Nansh0u, the malicious campaign is reportedly being carried out by an APT-style Chinese hacking group who has...

Threat Roundup for May 17 to May 24

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

Cynet Provides Security Responders with Free IR Tool to Validate and Respond to Active Threats

Organizations that suspect an active threat or breach have two options: calling an external incident response provider to manage the investigation and response or trying to handle it internally with their own resources. Cynet is now introducing a free IR offering that caters to both scenarios – a...

Threat Roundup for April 26 to May 3

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 26 and May 03. 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 April 19 to April 26

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

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Emotet Utilizing WMI to Launch PowerShell Encoded Code

Carbon Black recently learned that a customer had received a malicious email, which was written in German and was attached with a password-protected zip file that contained a malicious document file. This phishing email belongs to the recent Emotet campaign. However, what makes this malware uniqu...

Project TajMahal – a sophisticated new APT framework

Executive summary 'TajMahal' is a previously unknown and technically sophisticated APT framework discovered by Kaspersky Lab in the autumn of 2018. This full-blown spying framework consists of two packages named 'Tokyo' and 'Yokohama'. It includes backdoors, loaders, orchestrators, C2...

Threat Roundup for March 22 to March 29

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

Threat Roundup for March 8 to March 15

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between March 08 and March 15. 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...

Threat Roundup for Feb. 15 to Feb. 22

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

Osweep - Don't Just Search OSINT, Sweep It

If you work in IT security, then you most likely use OSINT to help you understand what it is that your SIEM alerted you on and what everyone else in the world understands about it. More than likely you are using more than one OSINT service because most of the time OSINT will only provide you with...

Threat Roundup for Nov. 23 to Nov. 30

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

Even More on Threat Hunting

In response to my post More on Threat Hunting, Rob Lee asked: Do you consider detection through ID’ing/“matching” TTPs not hunting? To answer this question, we must begin by clarifying "TTPs." Most readers know TTPs to mean tactics, techniques and procedures, defined by David Bianco in his Pyrami...

Get Emerging Threats Visibility with Qualys IOC Widgets

Two new built-in widgets for detecting the GravityRAT and GhostSecret advanced threats are now available in Qualys Indication of Compromise IOC. These threats are of specific concern as they target industries like finance, entertainment, telecommunication and healthcare and have capability to...