XDR Needs Network Data and Here’s Why

As we’ve discussed in previous blogs, XDR is a better way to detect attacks within a network since it is able to coordinate and collaborate threat intelligence and data across multiple threat vectors, including endpoint including mobile and IIoT, server, network, messaging, web, and cloud. In thi...

Neo-Nazi SWATters Target Dozens of Journalists

Nearly three dozen journalists at a broad range of major publications have been targeted by a far-right group that maintains a Deep Web database listing the personal information of people who threaten their views. This group specializes in encouraging others to harass those targeted by their ire,...

Citrix Confirms Password-Spraying Heist of Reams of Internal IP

UPDATE Digital workspace and enterprise networks vendor Citrix has concluded its investigation into a 6TB data heist in March, which it said was the work of international cybercriminals who exploited weak passwords on an internal network. The attackers intermittently accessed Citrix’ infrastrucur...

Intercept SaaS Services with the Akamai EAA Client

I was quite fortunate to visit Tokyo for the first time last year, and it was an unforgettable experience to explore all the sights and sounds around the Ginza district and to interact with the very friendly Japanese people. It wasn't all play, though -- and I had to get some real work done as...

The Modern-Day Heist: IP Theft Techniques That Enable Attackers

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 in Buckinghamshire, U.K., was orchestrated by a gang of 15 robbers that devised and executed a well-laid-out plan over the course of several months. Fast-forward 56 years and we’re still seeing gangs of modern-day robbers orchestrating elaborate plans – only in 201...

Hunting COM Objects

COM objects have recently been used by penetration testers, Red Teams, and malicious actors to perform lateral movement. COM objects were studied by several other researchers in the past, including Matt Nelson enigma0x3, who published a blog post about it in 2017. Some of these COM objects were...

Our Ceiling, Their Floor, Educating the Future

Throughout this blog series, we've been discussing the future of tech in relation to our young people. At Akamai, our outreach programs and forward-thinking culture have positioned us as part of the movement determined to make the world better for...

Shr3dKit

This is an offensive tool for Red Team operations. The tool kit, named Shr3dKit, is a collection of scripts and tools for various stages of a Red Team engagement, including reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, command and control, lateral movement, establishing a foothold, escalating...

TRITON Actor TTP Profile, Custom Attack Tools, Detections, and ATT&CK Mapping

Overview FireEye can now confirm that we have uncovered and are responding to an additional intrusion by the attacker behind TRITON at a different critical infrastructure facility. In December 2017, FireEye publicly released our first analysis on the TRITON attack where malicious actors used the...

Can You Handle the Cyber Threats Coming in 2019?

I never thought I’d long for the days when Pikachu and Anna Kournikova worms were thriving. But back then, cyber attacks caused chaos, but not significant damage. Fast forward to 2019 and the threat landscape has changed. Now attackers are out to do significant damage to your company. This damage...

Pick-Six: Intercepting a FIN6 Intrusion, an Actor Recently Tied to Ryuk and LockerGoga Ransomware

Summary Recently, FireEye Managed Defense detected and responded to a FIN6 intrusion at a customer within the engineering industry, which seemed out of character due to FIN6’s historical targeting of payment card data. The intent of the intrusion was initially unclear because the customer did not...

ThreatList: Half of All Attacks Aim at Supply Chain

Increasingly sophisticated attacks that target supply chains, counter-incident response and lateral movement within a network are quickly becoming the new normal in the corporate security threat landscape. That’s according to Carbon Black’s latest quarterly Global Incident Response Threat Report,...

Carbon Black’s Global Incident Response Threat Report: The Ominous Rise of “Island Hopping” & Counter Incident Response Continues

To stay abreast of the current attack landscape and to quantify the latest attack trends seen by leading IR firms, Carbon Black is publishing its third Global Incident Response Threat Report GIRTR since introducing it in July 2018. Aggregating qualitative and quantitative input from 40 Carbon Bla...

How to Mature Your Threat Hunting Program with the ATT&CK™ Framework

John Wunder, Principal Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE spoke in a recent webinar about how the ATT&CK framework is a knowledgebase of adversary behaviors, describing the things that are tough for the adversary to change – those at the top of David J. Bianco’s influential Pyramid of Pain. Wunder...

DCOMrade - Powershell Script For Enumerating Vulnerable DCOM Applications

DCOMrade is a Powershell script that is able to enumerate the possible vulnerable DCOM applications that might allow for lateral movement, code execution, data exfiltration, etc. The script is build to work with Powershell 2.0 but will work with all versions above as well. The script currently...

CVE-2018-19042

The Media File Manager plugin 1.4.2 for WordPress allows arbitrary file movement via a ../ directory traversal in the dirfrom and dirto parameters of an mrelocatormove action to the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php URI...

Directory traversal

The Media File Manager plugin 1.4.2 for WordPress allows arbitrary file movement via a ../ directory traversal in the dirfrom and dirto parameters of an mrelocatormove action to the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php URI...

CVE-2018-19042

CVE-2018-19042 affects the WordPress Media File Manager plugin (v1.4.2) via a directory traversal in mrelocator_move that lets an attacker move arbitrary files using dir_from/dir_to parameters to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. OpenVAS and related entries flag multiple vulnerabilities in

A Vulnerability in Debian’s Apt Allows for Easy Lateral Movement in Data Centers

Learn about the new vulnerability that was found in Debian’s Advanced Package Tool that allows for easy lateral movement in data center...

CVE-2018-20735

An issue was discovered in BMC PATROL Agent through 11.3.01. It was found that the PatrolCli application can allow for lateral movement and escalation of privilege inside a Windows Active Directory environment. It was found that by default the PatrolCli / PATROL Agent application only verifies if...