Active Spy Campaign Exploits Unpatched Windows Zero-Day

The recently discovered Windows zero-day – which still doesn’t have a patch – has been used in the wild for the last week, with an active info-stealing campaign emerging just two days after its disclosure on Twitter. The flaw is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Task...

Comparison of Open Source Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed If you liked my older post titled "List of Adversary Emulation Tools", I am sure you must want to know what is the difference or comparison between the different tools. This post is an attempt to do just that -to list down the comparison of open source adversary emulation tools...

Carbon Black Report: 46% of Incident Response Professionals Experience Counter Incident Response

Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report Executive Summary/Highlights Proactive Incident Response Even as a steady drumbeat of headlines keeps the world’s attention focused on cybercrimes such as ransomware and cryptojacking, in the dark corners of the internet, attackers are busy refining their...

Simplifying and Prioritizing Advanced Threat Response Measures

I had to go to the doctor the other day because I was miserable and sick. I don’t like going to the doctor so I waited until my stuffy nose and congestion turned into a full blown sinus infection. The doctor said this thing was going around, and I should be better in a few day with my prescriptio...

Threatlist: Manufacturing, a Top Target for Espionage

When it comes to cyberattack-related reconnaissance and lateral movement activity, the manufacturing industry exhibits higher than normal rates. That’s according to Vectra’s 2018 Spotlight Report on Manufacturing, which crunched data from more than 4 million devices and workloads from customer...

How the US Military Can Better Keep Hackers

Interesting commentary: The military is an impossible place for hackers thanks to antiquated career management, forced time away from technical positions, lack of mission, non-technical mid- and senior-level leadership, and staggering pay gaps, among other issues. It is possible the military need...

Iron Rain: Cybersecurity Is an Ever-Changing Battlefield

Editor's Note: This is the final blog in a three-part series, "Iron Rain" from Tom Kellermann and Rick McElroy. Part 1: Iron Rain: What Defines a Cyber Insurgency? Part 2: Iron Rain: Gaining Situational Intelligence to Make Rapid Decisions Part 3: The ever-changing battlefield. Just like in comba...

Carbon Black Report: China, Russia & North Korea Launching Sophisticated, Espionage-Focused Cyberattacks

Even as a steady drumbeat of headlines keeps the world’s attention focused on cybercrimes, such as ransomware and cryptojacking, in the dark corners of the internet, attackers are busy refining their craft. According to the world’s top incident response IR professionals, cyberattackers are honing...

Hacker Puts Airport's Security System Access On Dark Web Sale For Just $10

If you can't find it on Google, you will definitely find it on the Dark Web. Black markets on the Dark web are not known for just buying drugs, it is a massive hidden network where you can buy pretty much anything you can imagine—from pornography, weapon, and counterfeit currencies, to hacking...

Newsmaker Interview: VDOO CEO Talks Top IoT Threats

IoT security is like a game of Whac-A-Mole. Fix one CVE and four new bugs pop up. Last month, researchers found a slew of vulnerabilities in Axis cameras that could enable an attacker to access camera video streams, control the camera, add it to a botnet or render it useless. Also in June, IP...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Data Gathering

Carbon Black recently published a report on how to gather data to improve the security posture of your enterprise. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live Demo...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Nation State Threats

Carbon Black recently published a report on the latest non-malware attack methods, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live Demo,...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Threat Hunting Teams & CIR

Carbon Black recently published a report on the newest threats facing the financial world, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live...

Global Threats to Information Systems

The advanced capabilities of organized hacker groups and cyber threat actors are an increasing global threat to information systems. Rising threat levels place more demands on cybersecurity personnel and network administrators to protect information systems. Protecting network infrastructure is...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Non Malware Attack Methods

Carbon Black recently published a report on the latest non-malware attack methods, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live Demo,...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Overview

Carbon Black recently published a report on the newest threats facing the financial world, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live...

Honeybits - A Simple Tool Designed To Enhance The Effectiveness Of Your Traps By Spreading Breadcrumbs & Honeytokens Across Your Systems

A simple tool designed to enhance the effectiveness of your traps by spreading breadcrumbs & honeytokens across your production servers and workstations to lure the attacker toward your honeypots. Author: Adel "0x4D31" Karimi. Background The problem with the traditional implementation of honeypot...

Schneider Electric InduSoft Web Studio and InTouch Machine Edition - Denial of Service

Schneider Electric InduSoft Web Studio and InTouch Machine Edition - Denial of Service What do you need to know? Tenable Research has discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Schneider Electric’s InduSoft Web Studio and InTouch Machine Edition. What's the attack vector? The...

Establishing a Baseline for Remote Desktop Protocol

For IT staff and Windows power users, Microsoft Terminal Services Remote Desktop Protocol RDP is a beneficial tool that allows for the interactive.aspx use or administration of a remote Windows system. However, Mandiant consultants have also observed threat actors using RDP, with compromised doma...

Automated Bots Growing Tool For Hackers

SAN FRANCISCO – The use of automated bots is becoming more prevalent for novice attackers as tools become more available, researchers found. A honeypot experiment, detailed by Cybereason at this year’s RSA Conference, showed the commoditization of using bots to perform low-level tasks. The honeyp...