Detonating a bad rabbit: Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses

Windows Defender Antivirus uses a layered approach to protection: tiers of advanced automation and machine learning models evaluate files in order to reach a verdict on suspected malware. While Windows Defender AV detects a vast majority of new malware files at first sight, we always strive to...

Detonating a bad rabbit: Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses

Windows Defender Antivirus uses a layered approach to protection: tiers of advanced automation and machine learning models evaluate files in order to reach a verdict on suspected malware. While Windows Defender AV detects a vast majority of new malware files at first sight, we always strive to...

Investigation Report for the September 2014 Equation malware detection incident in the US

Background In early October, a story was published by the Wall Street Journal alleging Kaspersky Lab software was used to siphon classified data from an NSA employee's home computer system. Given that Kaspersky Lab has been at the forefront of fighting cyberespionage and cybercriminal activities ...

Unpatched Windows Kernel Bug Could Help Malware Hinder Detection

A 17-year-old programming error has been discovered in Microsoft's Windows kernel that could prevent some security software from detecting malware at runtime when loaded into system memory. The security issue, described by enSilo security researcher Omri Misgav, resides in the kernel routine...

Cb Defense Praised in Independent Tests, Product Reviews

Earlier this week, Carbon Black announced the Q3 release of Cb Defense, which features breakthrough streaming ransomware prevention as well as live response capability. Following this announcement, three independent security organizations published reviews and reports confirming the efficacy of C...

Cross site scripting

A vulnerability in the malware detection functionality within Advanced Malware Protection AMP of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances ESAs could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an email attachment containing malware to be delivered to the end user. The...

An Established Solution for Mobile Threats

As much as smartphones and applications have evolved over the years, so has mobile malware. We’re seeing an increasing number of threats—from mobile ransomware and auto-clicking adware to dangerous backdoors that can compromise your privacy. And there are also legitimate personal applications tha...

Cisco Email Security Appliance Malformed EML Attachment Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the malware detection functionality within Advanced Malware Protection AMP of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances ESAs could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an email attachment containing malware to be delivered to the end user. The...

Facebook worries: I didn’t post that

It is my assumption that most Facebook users don’t look at their own profile often. With your own profile, I mean the timeline that shows up when you click your own name or avatar in the Facebook menu. That’s because we think we know exactly what is posted there, so why bother to look at it? Afte...

BinaryAlert - Serverless, Real-time & Retroactive Malware Detection

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline where any file uploaded to an S3 bucket is immediately scanned with a configurable set of YARA rules. An alert will fire as soon as any match is found, giving an incident response team the ability to quickly contain the threat before it spread...

Serverless, Real-time Malware Detection: BinaryAlert

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline where any file uploaded to an S3 bucket is immediately scanned with a configurable set of YARA rules. An alert will fire as soon as any match is found, giving an incident response team the ability to quickly contain the threat before it spread...

AVG AntiVirus < 17.2 Security Bypass Vulnerability - Mac OS X

AVG AntiVirus is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:avg:anti-virus";...

AVG AntiVirus for MacOS Information Disclosure Vulnerability

AVG AntiVirus for MacOS is an antivirus and anti-backdoor antivirus program for MacOS. scan engine is one of the antivirus scanning engines. A security vulnerability exists in versions of AVG AntiVirus for MacOS prior to scan engine 4668. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to bypas...

Authentication flaw

AVG AntiVirus for MacOS with scan engine before 4668 might allow remote attackers to bypass malware detection by leveraging failure to scan inside disk image aka DMG files...

Watchguard Firebox / XTM XXE Injection Vulnerability

Watchguard's Firebox and XTM appliances suffer from XML external entity injection and XML-RPC user enumeration vulnerabilities. Watchguardas Firebox and XTM are a series of enterprise grade network security appliances providing advanced security services like next generation firewall, intrusion...

CVE-2015-8986

CVE-2015-8986 is described as a sandbox-detection evasion vulnerability in McAfee/Intel Security Advanced Threat Defense (MATD) versions up to 3.4.2.32. The issue allows malware to detect the sandbox environment and bypass malware detection, resulting in false negatives. The available sources ide...

Linux Malware Detect: LMD

Linux Malware Detect LMD is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that is actively being used in attacks and...

Charger Mobile Ransomware Removed from Google Play

Security researchers have identified a new and evasive mobile ransomware strain called Charger on the Google Play app store. The Charger malware was bundled with an SMS-snooping app called EnergyRescue that pawned itself off as a battery management utility, according to Check Point security...

CVE-2016-9193

A vulnerability in the malicious file detection and blocking features of Cisco Firepower Management Center and Cisco FireSIGHT System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass malware detection mechanisms on an affected system. Affected Products: Cisco Firepower Managemen...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in the malicious file detection and blocking features of Cisco Firepower Management Center and Cisco FireSIGHT System Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass malware detection mechanisms on an affected system. Affected Products: Cisco Firepower Managemen...