Q&A: Insights from the Red Canary 2020 Threat Detection Report

In light of the latest update to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, Red Canary has developed a Threat Detection Report uncovering the top techniques attackers use to target your organization. To understand the significance of the report, we turned to two of VMware Carbon Black’s top threat experts, Greg...

Important: openssl

Issue Overview: Normally in OpenSSL EC groups always have a co-factor present and this is used in side channel resistant code paths. However, in some cases, it is possible to construct a group using explicit parameters instead of using a named curve. In those cases it is possible that such a grou...

Technical Analysis: Hackers Leveraging COVID-19 Pandemic to Launch Phishing Attacks, Fake Apps/Maps, Trojans, Backdoors, Cryptominers, Botnets & Ransomware

The global COVID-19 pandemic is generating a substantial uptick in the production and delivery of Coronavirus themed malware. Due to a rapidly growing number of Indicators of Compromise IOC’s, this report covers the key behaviors by aligning to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. MITRE ATT&CK launched in...

Important: sudo

Issue Overview: In Sudo before 1.8.26, if pwfeedback is enabled in /etc/sudoers, users can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow in the privileged sudo process. pwfeedback is a default setting in Linux Mint and elementary OS; however, it is NOT the default for upstream and many other packages, an...

Threat hunting: Part 1—Why your SOC needs a proactive hunting team

Cybersecurity can often feel like a game of whack-a-mole. As our tools get better at stopping one type of attack, our adversaries innovate new tactics. Sophisticated cybercriminals burrow their way into network caverns, avoiding detection for weeks or even months, as they gather information and...

2019: Looking Back at Malware

In 2019, attacker behavior evolved, becoming more evasive. The most common behaviors seen across all attack data—mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK™ Framework—were: Software Packing for Defense Evasion, Hidden Windows for Defense Evasion, Standard Application Layer Protocol for Command and Control C2,...

Medium: freetype

Issue Overview: FreeType before 2.6.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read in T1GetPrivateDict in type1/t1parse.c. CVE-2015-9381 FreeType before 2.6.1 has a buffer over-read in skipcomment in psaux/psobjs.c because psparserskipPStoken is mishandled in an FTNewMemoryFace operation. CVE-2015-9382...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel before 5.1, there is a memory leak in featregistersp in net/dccp/feat.c, which may cause denial of service, aka CID-1d3ff0950e2b. CVE-2019-20096 An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.10. SMB2negotiate in fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c has an out-of-bounds...

RSA 2020 – That’s a Wrap!

Last week VMware Carbon Black attended the RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco! This year was bigger than ever before, as we shared our vision for intrinsic security — for a safer, more effective world. Get all the highlights and check out some of our favorite moments in the wrap up below. The...

Install Python for Windows

This module places an embeddable Python3 distribution onto the target file system, granting pentesters access to a lightweight Python interpreter. This module does not require administrative privileges or user interaction with installation prompts. This module requires Metasploit:...

2020 Cybersecurity Outlook Report

In case you missed it, we are excited to release our latest report from the VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU, the “2020 Cybersecurity Outlook Report”. In the search for clarity in the modern attacker vs. defender battle, it’s all about behaviors. More broadly, we explore the age-old...

Joplin Desktop 1.0.184 - Cross-Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Joplin Desktop 1.0.184 - Cross-Site Scripting Exploit Author: Javier Olmedo Date: 2020-02-27 Vendor: Laurent Cozic Software Link: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/archive/v1.0.184.zip Affected Version: 1.0.184 and before Patched Version: 1.0.185 Category: Remote Platform: Window...

New CWE List of Common Security Weaknesses

MITRE has released version 4.0 of the community-developed Common Weakness Enumeration CWE list. Previous CWE list versions describe common software security weaknesses. With version 4.0, the CWE list expands to include hardware security weaknesses. Additionally, version 4.0 simplifies the...

Bringing Intrinsic Security to RSA Conference 2020

This year at the RSA Conference, VMware will be highlighting our vision for Intrinsic Security, a safer, more effective security built into the fabric of the various infrastructure control points that are vulnerable to attack endpoint, identity, network, cloud, workload. The VMware Carbon Black...

CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks - Part II | McAfee Blogs

CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part II Christiaan Beek · FEB 20, 2020 In our first article we discussed the growing pattern of targeted ransomware attacks where the first infection stage is often an info-stealer kind of malware used to gain credentials/access to...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The cryptoreport function mishandles resource cleanup on error. A local attacker able to induce the error conditions could use this flaw to crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. CVE-2019-19062 ...

Beers with Talos Ep. #71: I Have the Power(Shell)

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 71 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Jan. 17, 2020 PowerShell is a frequent flyer in security headlines — a powerful and oft-wielded tool for attacke...

Invoke-APT29: Adversarial Threat Emulation

MITRE recently conducted its second ATT&CK exercise in their ongoing annual series of Endpoint Security Efficacy testing and evaluation. This test focuses on assessing the behavioral capabilities of multiple endpoint security vendors against a simulated adversary, based closely around...

XMLBlueprint 16.191112 - XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

Exploit Title: XMLBlueprint 16.191112 - XML External Entity Injection Exploit Author: Javier Olmedo Vendor: XMLBlueprint XML Editor Software Link: https://www.xmlblueprint.com/update/download-64bit.exe Affected Version: 16.191112 and before Patched Version: unpatched Category: Local Platform: XML...

UPDATE: MITRE CALDERA 2.5.1

MITRE CALDERA 2.5.1 is now available since the last release – MITRE CALDERA 2.5.0, which was released a couple of days ago. As you remember, this awesome adversary emulation system was listed in my older post titled – List of Adversary Emulation Tools. Among major changes, what I like is that now...