Microsoft Patch Tuesday April 2022 addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Microsoft addressed 128 vulnerabilities in there April patch Tuesday update. Two of them have been categorized as zero-day vulnerabilities. One of the two zero-days is exploited-in-the-wild as well. The vulnerability,...

Attacks on European Union and Ukrainian government entities carried out by the Armageddon group

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has issued an alert warning of an ongoing spear-phishing attempt aimed at delivering an email with a malware attachment to Ukrainian government institutions and European...

Malwarebytes Evaluation of the MITRE ENGENUITY ATT&CK Round 4 Emulations

The results of the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation of the Wizard Spider and Sandworm adversaries were officially released1 last week. We are very proud of the Malwarebytes EDR results in the MITRE Engenuity test, which are the direct reflection of a relentless core EDR team and the learnings fr...

APT 10, a state-sponsored Chinese threat group, conducting a global cyber espionage operation

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A Chinese state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT 10 group has been attacking government, legal, religious entities and non-governmental organizations NGOs around the world in what appears to be an espionage campaign th...

Why the Mitre Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations Matter

This year’s MITRE Engenuity™ ATT&CK Evaluation simulates techniques associated with notorious threat groups Wizard Spider and Sandworm to test solutions' ability to detect and stop APT and Targeted Attacks...

Medium: libgcrypt

Issue Overview: A side-channel attack flaw was found in the way libgcrypt implemented Elgamal encryption. This flaw allows an attacker to decrypt parts of ciphertext encrypted using Elgamal, for example, when using OpenPGP. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality...

Hcltm - Documenting Your Threat Models With HCL

Threat Modeling with HCL Overview There are many different ways in which a threat model can be documented. From a simple text file, to more in-depth word documents, to fully instrumented threat models in a centralised solution. Two of the most valuable attributes of a threat model are being able ...

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2022 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave™ report

We are excited to share that Microsoft has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Detection and Response, Q1 2022. Microsoft received one of the highest scores in the strategy category and strength of current offering category. In the Forrester Wave assessment, Microsoft Defender f...

Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations

For the fourth consecutive year, Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrated its industry-leading protection in MITRE Engenuity’s independent ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations, showcasing the value of an integrated XDR-based defense that unifies device and identity protection with a Zero Trust approach:...

Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations

For the fourth consecutive year, Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrated its industry-leading protection in MITRE Engenuity’s independent ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations, showcasing the value of an integrated XDR-based defense that unifies device and identity protection with a Zero Trust approach:...

An In-Depth Look at ICS Vulnerabilities Part 3

In our series wrap-up, we look into CVEs that affect critical manufacturing based on MITRE’s matrix. We also explore common ICS-affecting vulnerabilities identified in 2021...

What's New in InsightIDR: Q1 2022 in Review

Introducing new InsightIDR capabilities to accelerate your detection and response program When we talk to customers and security professionals about what they need more of in their security operations center SOC, there is one consistent theme: time. InsightIDR — Rapid7's leading cloud SIEM and XD...

Deep Panda deploys new rootkit “Fire Chili” by exploiting Log4shell in VMware horizon

THREAT LEVEL: Red For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Deep Panda, a Chinese APT group, took advantage of the well-known Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to deploy a backdoor, rootkit, and steal sensitive data. This threat actor is primarily targeting firms in the...

Sharpen Your IR Capabilities With Rapid7’s Detection and Response Workshop

You’re tasked with protecting your environment, and you’ve invested significant time and resources into deploying and configuring your tools — but how do you know if the security controls you’ve put into place are effective? The challenge continues to grow as attacker tactics, techniques, and...

A week in security (March 28 – April 3)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: New UAC-0056 activity: There’s a Go Elephant in the room Globant suffers network breach due to LAPSUS$ compromise Update now! Apple patches two zero-day vulnerabilities that may have been actively exploited Hive ransomware impacts California non-profit health...

MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Tests

Trend Micro Vision One achieved a protection score of 100% in this year’s evaluation, proving once again that it is an invaluable tool that provides higher confidence detections for security operations teams...

An In-Depth Look at ICS Vulnerabilities Part 2

In part two of our three-part series, we continue to analyze vulnerabilities using MITRE ATT&CK. We also look into the sectors affected and their risk levels...

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Zyxel Firmware

THREAT LEVEL: Amber For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A severe vulnerability CVE-2022-0342 has been discovered in the firmware of some of Zyxels business-grade firewall and VPN products, potentially allowing attackers administrator-level access to affected devices. This...

Actively exploited vulnerability affects Trend Micro Apex Central

THREAT LEVEL: Amber For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Trend Micro Apex Central on-premise and as a Service has a zero-day vulnerability. This arbitrary file upload vulnerability if successfully exploited, could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to upload any file, resulti...

Two Vulnerabilities affecting Apple macOS exploited-in-the-wild

THREAT LEVEL: Red For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Two zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered in macOS Monterey versions prior to 12.3.1. These new issues bring the total number of zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in the Apple ecosystem to four. CVE-2022-22674 is an...