Multiple Vulnerabilities in the Mobile Maintenance APP of China Mobile Communications Group Anhui Co.

Mobile Maintenance APP is a mobile office software for China Mobile's operation and maintenance staff, providing functions including resource management, portal management, work order dispatching and attendance statistics. There are multiple vulnerabilities in the Mobile Maintenance APP of China...

AutoSploit v2.0 - Automated Mass Exploiter

As the name might suggest AutoSploit attempts to automate the exploitation of remote hosts. Targets can be collected automatically through Shodan, Censys or Zoomeye. But options to add your custom targets and host lists have been included as well. The available Metasploit modules have been select...

Targeted Attacks In The Middle East

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres with assistance of Martin Lee. Executive Summary Talos has identified a targeted attacks affecting the Middle East. This campaign contains the following elements, which are described in detail in this article. The use of allegedly confidential decoy...

AutoSploit - Automated Mass Exploiter

As the name might suggest AutoSploit attempts to automate the exploitation of remote hosts. Targets are collected automatically as well by employing the Shodan.io API. The program allows the user to enter their platform specific search query such as; Apache, IIS, etc, upon which a list of...

Automated Mass Exploiter: AutoSploit

As the name might suggest AutoSploit attempts to automate the exploitation of remote hosts. Targets are collected automatically as well by employing the Shodan.io API. The program allows the user to enter their platform specific search query such as; Apache , IIS , etc, upon which a list of...

Expert: IoT Botnets the Work of a ‘Vast Minority’

In December 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments and guilty pleas by three men in the United States responsible for creating and using Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves poorly-secured "Internet of Things" or IoT devices like security cameras and digital video recorders f...

Trend Micro is Proud to Sponsor G33kW33k!

It started as a small idea. Get a bunch of good people together, away from the pressures of their offices, and see if they could address some of the issues operational security teams have to deal with. Better monitoring tools; better analysis tools; new ways to generate threat indicators and feed...

Inside a Porn-Pimping Spam Botnet

For several months I've been poking at a decent-sized spam botnet that appears to be used mainly for promoting adult dating sites. Having hit a wall in my research, I decided it might be good to publish what I've unearthed so far to see if this dovetails with any other research out there. In late...

Pawn Storm – A Look Into this Cyberespionage Actor Group

In April 2017 my monthly threat webinar focused on a cyberespionage group our Forward-Looking Threat Researcher, Feike Hacquebord, has been following for many years and recently published a report into the most recent two years of activities. In this post I want to focus on their tools and tactic...

Onion Services Security Scan: OnionScan

OnionScan is a free and open source tool for investigating the Dark Web. For all the amazing technological innovations in the anonymity and privacy space, there is always a constant threat that has no effective technological patch – human error. Whether it is operational security leaks or softwar...

U.S. and Japan to Cooperate on Cybersecurity, Information Sharing

The United States and Japan have agreed to cooperate more closely on cybersecurity and information sharing initiatives as a way to help both countries defend against future threats and attacks. The new initiative will include a variety of components, most notably cooperation during serious...

IT-Grundschutz M4.315: Aufrechterhaltung der Betriebssicherheit von Active Directory

IT-Grundschutz M4.315: Aufrechterhaltung der Betriebssicherheit von Active Directory. Stand: 14. Ergaenzungslieferung 14. EL. Copyright C 2015 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Encryption and Silence Can be Targets' Best Assets

CANCUN–Things are getting real these days for executives, researchers, journalists and others involved in the security community. Targeted surveillance is a reality for many in the community, and researchers and activists are trying now to help them assess and address that threat to their privacy...

FreeBSD Servers Compromised; Third-Party Software Packages Could be Impacted

FreeBSD is warning users of the open source UNIX-like operating system about a compromise of a pair of servers used to build third-party software. The organization said attackers had sufficient access to affect third-party packages distributed by the project and suggests that any software install...

Security Firms Scramble For SCADA Talent After Stuxnet

Three months after the world first learned of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, insiders say that there’s a scramble to find and hire engineers with knowledge of both security and the industrial control systems that were Stuxnet’s intended target. Anti virus companies admit their research teams wer...