Researchers Takeover Unpatched 3rd-Party Antivirus Sandboxes via VirusTotal

Security researchers have disclosed a security issue that could have allowed attackers to weaponize the VirusTotal platform as a conduit to achieve remote code execution RCE on unpatched third-party sandboxing machines employed antivirus engines. The flaw, now patched, made it possible to "execut...

Trend Micro Portable Security权限提升漏洞

Trend Micro Portable Security is a malware scanning and cleaning tool from Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro Portable Security has an elevation of privilege vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause local elevation of privilege...

Microsoft Issues Fix for Exchange Y2K22 Bug That Crippled Email Delivery Service

Microsoft, over the weekend, rolled out a fix to address an issue that caused email messages to get stuck on its Exchange Server platforms due to what it blamed on a date validation error at around the turn of the year. "The problem relates to a date check failure with the change of the new year...

Improve kernel security with the new Microsoft Vulnerable and Malicious Driver Reporting Center

Windows 10 and Windows 11 have continued to raise the security bar for drivers running in the kernel. Kernel-mode driver publishers must pass the Hardware Lab Kit HLK compatibility tests, malware scanning, and prove their identity through extended validation EV certificates. This has significantl...

Workshop: AWS S3 Bucket for Malware Scanning

In this workshop, you will learn how to scan your objects that are being uploaded to Amazon S3 buckets for malware and integrate into your custom workflows, by automating with your current resources, directly in your AWS environment...

Workshop: AWS S3 Bucket for Malware Scanning

In this workshop, you will learn how to scan your objects that are being uploaded to Amazon S3 buckets for malware and integrate into your custom workflows, by automating with your current resources, directly in your AWS environment...

Total Defense Anti-virus Competitive Conditions Issue Vulnerability

Total Defense Anti-virus is a suite of antivirus software from the American company Total Defense. A competitive condition issue vulnerability exists in the malware scanning feature in Total Defense Anti-virus version 11.5.2.28, which can be exploited by attackers to remove privileged files...

Hacker gets 14 years jail time for operating Scan4You malware scanning service

By Waqas Scan4You was a VirusTotal like platform used for malicious purposes. A 37-year old male from Riga, Latvia has received 14 years sentence for creating and running Scan4You, a counter antivirus service that aided malware developers to check detection rates of their malicious software. The...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Turn off Windows Defender Antivirus

This policy setting turns off Windows Defender Antivirus. If you enable this policy setting, Windows Defender Antivirus does not run, and computers are not scanned for malware or other potentially unwanted software. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, by default Windows Defend...

Syhunt ScanTools 6.0 - Console Web Vulnerability Scan Tools

Syhunt ScanTools 6.0 adds advanced fingerprinting capabilities, enhanced spidering, injection and code scan capabilities, and a large number of improved checks. Adds the display of Hybrid, Dynamic and Code detailed scan statistics to the command-line tools. New fingerprinting capabilities - Becau...

Google Login Security for High-Risk Users

Google has a new login service for high-risk users. It's good, but unforgiving. Logging in from a desktop will require a special USB key, while accessing your data from a mobile device will similarly require a Bluetooth dongle. All non-Google services and apps will be exiled from reaching into yo...

Malware Scanning Services Containers for Sensitive Business Information

SINT MAARTEN—Malware scanning services could be the next listening outpost for criminals and nation-state attackers as more of these services such as VirusTotal are becoming containers for personal, business and even classified information because of some organizations’ policy decision to upload...

WAS - Automatic USB Drive Malware Scanning Tool For The Security-Minded Person

Author: Fabio Baroni http://www.pentest.guru/ @Fabiothebest89 How many times have you plugged in a USB drive and double clicked on a file without scanning for malware? I guess, MANY. Wait A Sec! Even if you are a security guy, you'll often be in a hurry or absent minded and you trust your USB dri...

Malicious Gaming App Infects More than 1 Million Android Users

It's not at all surprising that the Google Play Store is surrounded by a number of malicious applications that may gain users' attention to fall victim for one, but this time it might be even worse than you thought. Threat researchers from security firm ESET have discovered a malicious...

Fake 'Placebo Apps' Booted From Google Play, Amazon

A handful of apps purporting to specialize in virus detection and malware scanning were recently removed from Google’s Play marketplace and Amazon after being deemed fake. Security researchers at FireEye discovered five apps in particular that accounted for up to 50,000 downloads and essentially...

[Lynis 1.4.6] Security and System Auditing Tool to Harden Linux Systems

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix/Linux. It performs a security scan and determines the hardening state of the machine. Any detected security issues will be provided in the form of a suggestion or warning. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information,...

[Lynis 1.4.2] Security and System Auditing Tool to Harden Linux Systems

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix/Linux. It performs a security scan and determines the hardening state of the machine. Any detected security issues will be provided in the form of a suggestion or warning. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information,...

[Lynis 1.4.0] Security and System Auditing Tool to Harden Linux Systems

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix/Linux. It performs a security scan and determines the hardening state of the machine. Any detected security issues will be provided in the form of a suggestion or warning. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information,...

Google Adds Malware Scanner to Jelly Bean 4.2

Google has been taking some steps to address the problem of malware on the Android platform in recent months, introducing the Bouncer antimalware system and some better anti-exploit technologies in Jelly Bean, the most recent version of the operating system. Now, the company is implementing some...

Google buys Online Malware Multi Scanner VirusTotal

Google on Friday said it acquired online virus-scanning service, VirusTotal, a provider of a free service that detects computer viruses and other malicious software in files and websites. VirusTotal, company based in Spain with only a handful of employees, performs the free service by pooling dat...