CVE-2017-9230

The Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm does not consider a certain attack methodology related to 80-byte block headers with a variety of initial 64-byte chunks followed by the same 16-byte chunk, multiple candidate root values ending with the same 4 bytes, and calculations involving sqrt numbers. Th...

CVE-2017-9230

The Bitcoin Proof-of-Work algorithm does not consider a certain attack methodology related to 80-byte block headers with a variety of initial 64-byte chunks followed by the same 16-byte chunk, multiple candidate root values ending with the same 4 bytes, and calculations involving sqrt numbers. Th...

Cisco Coverage for Adylkuzz, Uiwix, and EternalRocks

When the WannaCry attack was launched a little over a week ago, it was one of the first large scale attacks leveraging the data that was leaked by the Shadow Brokers. At the time the real concern was how quickly we would begin to see other threats leverage the same vulnerabilities. Over the past...

Weeks Before WannaCry, Cryptocurrency Mining Botnet Was Using Windows SMB Exploit

A security researcher has just discovered a stealthy cryptocurrency-mining malware that was also using Windows SMB vulnerability at least two weeks before the outbreak of WannaCry ransomware attacks. According to Kafeine, a security researcher at Proofpoint, another group of cyber criminals was...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2017-20210

Photo Station 5.4.1 & 5.2.7 include the security fix for the vulnerability related to the XMR mining programs identified by internal research...

Machine learning and the fight against ransomware

Ransomware is now everywhere. The number of emails containing ransomware rose 6,000 percent since 2015, and in 2016, 40 percent of all spam emails had one of these malicious programs hidden within, according to IBM. Other reports highlight the sophistication of ransomware nowadays and it's...

APT10 (MenuPass Group): New Tools, Global Campaign Latest Manifestation of Longstanding Threat

APT10 Background APT10 MenuPass Group is a Chinese cyber espionage group that FireEye has tracked since 2009. They have historically targeted construction and engineering, aerospace, and telecom firms, and governments in the United States, Europe, and Japan. We believe that the targeting of these...

Andrew Macpherson on Intelligence Gathering with Maltego

Ryan Naraine talks with Operations Manager at Paterva Andrew Macpherson who outlines the details of the “Digital Intelligence Gathering using Maltego” course being offered at the SAS 2017 and talks about the benefits for data mining by pen testers, malware analysts and law enforcement agencies...

Zcash Spurs Rash of Malicious Mining Software

Cybercriminals are targeting computers with malicious mining software thanks in part to the appeal of a new cryptocurrency called Zcash that claims to cloak the sender, the recipient and value of transactions. That type of anonymity is not afforded by Bitcoin and is sought after by crooks, said...

Malicious Cryptocurrency Mining tool turns Computers into Zcash Mining Machines

Since its launch over a month ago, new virtual currency Zcash ZEC has become a significant way for cybercrooks to make money by infecting computers with software mining program. Launched in late October, Zcash ZEC is a new cryptocurrency currency that claims to be more anonymous than Bitcoin, as...

Microsoft Shares Telemetry Data Collected from Windows 10 Users with 3rd-Party

Cyber security is a major challenge in today's world, as cyber attacks have become more automated and difficult to detect, where traditional cyber security practices and systems are no longer sufficient to protect businesses, governments, and other organizations. In past few years, Artificial...

Unmasking xDedic's Black Market for Servers and PCs

LAS VEGAS — Black market machine trading of PC and server resources is maturing at alarming speeds. Underground networks such as xDedic have fine-tuned their compute platform to the point where they are almost indistinguishable to legitimate networks such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Tho...

Resurrection of the Evil Miner

At FireEye Labs, we recently detected the resurgence of a coin mining campaign with a novel and unconventional infection vector in the form of an iFRAME inline frame – an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a web page that allows users to get content from another separate sourc...

Resurrection of the Evil Miner

At FireEye Labs, we recently detected the resurgence of a coin mining campaign with a novel and unconventional infection vector in the form of an iFRAME inline frame – an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a web page that allows users to get content from another separate sourc...

Resurrection of the Evil Miner

At FireEye Labs, we recently detected the resurgence of a coin mining campaign with a novel and unconventional infection vector in the form of an iFRAME inline frame – an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a web page that allows users to get content from another separate sourc...

Open Source Intelligence and Forensics : Maltego

Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application Maltego is a visual link analysis tool that, out the box, comes with open source intelligence OSINT plugins, called transforms. The tool offers real-time data mining and information gathering as well as the representation of this...

SQL injection vulnerability in the 'merid' parameter of the mining system of Shenzhen Jishu Communication Co.

Ltd. is a communication enterprise providing communication services and communication products. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the program mining system of Shenzhen Jishu Communication Co. The lack of filtering of the 'merid' parameter allows an attacker to exploit the vulnerability to...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in the 'id' parameter of the mining system of Shenzhen Jishu Communication Co.

Ltd. is a communication enterprise providing communication services and communication products. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the program mining system of Shenzhen Jishu Communication Co. The lack of filtering of the 'id' parameter allows an attacker to exploit the vulnerability to obta...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in the 'classid' parameter of the mining system of Shenzhen Jishu Communication Co.

Ltd. is a communication enterprise providing communication services and communication products. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the program mining system of Shenzhen Jishu Communication Co. The lack of filtering of the 'classid' parameter allows an attacker to exploit the vulnerability to...

SQL injection vulnerability in the 'atdid' parameter of the mining system of Shenzhen JTS Communications Co.

Ltd. is a communication enterprise providing communication services and communication products. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the program mining system of Shenzhen Jishu Communication Co. The lack of filtering of the 'atdid' parameter allows an attacker to exploit the vulnerability to...