CVE-2020-3181: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

A vulnerability in the malware detection functionality in Cisco Advanced Malware Protection AMP in Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances ESAs could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust resources on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient...

Firefox Enables DNS over HTTPS

This is good news: Whenever you visit a website -- even if it's HTTPS enabled -- the DNS query that converts the web address into an IP address that computers can read is usually unencrypted. DNS-over-HTTPS, or DoH, encrypts the request so that it can't be intercepted or hijacked in order to send...

Introduction and Application of Model Hacking

ARCHIVED STORY Introduction and Application of Model Hacking By Steve Povolny · Febraury 19, 2020 Catherine Huang, Ph.D., and Shivangee Trivedi contributed to this blog. The term “Adversarial Machine Learning” AML is a mouthful! The term describes a research field regarding the study and design o...

Introduction and Application of Model Hacking

ARCHIVED STORY Introduction and Application of Model Hacking By Steve Povolny · Febraury 19, 2020 Catherine Huang, Ph.D., and Shivangee Trivedi contributed to this blog. The term “Adversarial Machine Learning” AML is a mouthful! The term describes a research field regarding the study and design o...

DrSemu - Malware Detection And Classification Tool Based On Dynamic Behavior

Dr.Semu runs executables in an isolated environment, monitors the behavior of a process, and based on Dr.Semu rules created by you or the community, detects if the process is malicious or not. whoami:@qazqaz With Dr.Semu you can create rules to detect malware based on dynamic behavior of a proces...

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - February 2020 (KB890830)

After the download, this tool runs one time to check your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom and helps remove any infection that is found. If an infection is found, the tool will display a status report the next time that you sta...

Acunetix v13 - Web Application Security Scanner

Acunetix, the pioneer in automated web application security software, has announced the release of Acunetix Version 13. The new release comes with an improved user interface and introduces innovations such as the SmartScan engine, malware detection functionality, comprehensive network scanning,...

Abusing DLL Misconfigurations — Using Threat Intelligence to Weaponize R&D

DLL Abuse Techniques Overview Dynamic-link library DLL side-loading occurs when Windows Side-by-Side WinSxS manifests are not explicit about the characteristics of DLLs being loaded by a program. In layman’s terms, DLL side-loading can allow an attacker to trick a program into loading a malicious...

Why DNS Visibility Matters in Education

My colleague in Spain recently wrote an informative article about DNS Protection and why it's a must-have security solution for any company. Building out on this topic, I would like to look specifically at the Education market and what the consequences can be if DNS Visibility is not taken...

Dexphot Malware Hijacks 80K+ Devices to Mine Cryptocurrency

Microsoft is warning of malware, Dexphot, that has infected more than 80,000 machines, sucking up their CPU power in order to mine cryptocurrency. Researchers first discovered Dexphot in October 2018 and saw its activity peak during July. They said that the malware has a complex attack chain and...

The vulnerability of the software detection mechanism in Cisco Firepower System Software allows attackers to circumvent the configured security policies for detecting malicious programs and files with extensions .RTF and .RAR.

The vulnerability of the Cisco Firepower System Software’s malware detection mechanism exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass established security policies without being detected as carrying malware. The detected files...

The vulnerability of the software detection mechanism in Cisco Firepower System Software allows attackers to circumvent the configured security policies for detecting malicious programs and files with extensions .RTF and .RAR.

The vulnerability of the Cisco Firepower System Software’s malware detection mechanism exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass established security policies without being detected as carrying malware. The detected files...

This Week in Security News: APT33 Botnets Used for Extreme Narrow Targeting and Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Arrives with A Patch for An IE Zero-Day

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 the APT33 threat group that is using live C&C servers for extremely narrow targeting. Also, read about Trend Micro’s complete...

CVE-2019-3636 File masquerade attack vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection

A File Masquerade vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection MTP version 16.0.R21 and earlier in Windows client allowed an attacker to read the plaintext list of AV-Scan exclusion files from the Windows registry, and to possibly replace excluded files with potential malware without being detected...

Time for day 2 of briefings at BlueHat Seattle!

We hope you enjoyed the first day of our BlueHat briefings and the Bytes of BlueHat reception in our glamping tent complete with toasted marshmallows. Yesterday, we learned a lot about how XboxOne hardware security has advanced the state of hardware security elsewhere, we heard some surprising...

Time for day 2 of briefings at BlueHat Seattle!

We hope you enjoyed the first day of our BlueHat briefings and the Bytes of BlueHat reception in our glamping tent complete with toasted marshmallows. Yesterday, we learned a lot about how XboxOne hardware security has advanced the state of hardware security elsewhere, we heard some surprising...

Gustuff Android Banker Switches Up Technical Approach

An Instagram-initiated campaign using the Gustuff Android mobile banking trojan has rolled out in October, featuring an updated version of the malware that lowers its detection profile. How the cybercriminals are rolling out the campaign is the same as a previous offensive seen in June, according...

Definitive Dossier of Devilish Debug Details – Part Deux: A Didactic Deep Dive into Data Driven Deductions

In Part One of this blog series, Steve Miller outlined what PDB paths are, how they appear in malware, how we use them to detect malicious files, and how we sometimes use them to make associations about groups and actors. As Steve continued his research into PDB paths, we became interested in...

PT-2019-3815

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Firepower System Software affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to insufficient input validation in the detection mechanism of Cisco Firepower System Software, which could allow a remote attacker to bypass...

Microsoft Windows NTFS - Privileged File Access Enumeration

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT-WINDOWS-NTFS-PRIVILEGED-FILE-ACCESS-ENUMERATION.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec Vendor www.microsoft.com Product Windows NTFS NTFS is a proprietary journaling file system...