Don’t get burnt on pay day. How to buy IoT gadgets sensibly

As it’s the end of the month, and pay day for many, I thought some timely advice would be helpful for people itching to spend their money on IoT gadgets. It’s not all bad. While many manufacturers happily continue to fill shelves with dross, we know plenty of responsible companies whose products...

BlueHat Shanghai 2019: Amplifying the power of defensive partnerships around the world

Earlier this week BlueHat Shanghai brought together security researchers and hundreds of cybersecurity professionals from China and across Asia to explore the latest topics in cybersecurity research. Including presentations from Qihoo 360, Baidu, Alibaba and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, BlueH...

BlueHat Shanghai 2019: Amplifying the power of defensive partnerships around the world

Earlier this week BlueHat Shanghai brought together security researchers and hundreds of cybersecurity professionals from China and across Asia to explore the latest topics in cybersecurity research. Including presentations from Qihoo 360, Baidu, Alibaba and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, BlueH...

Fraudulent Academic Papers

The term "fake news" has lost much of its meaning, but it describes a real and dangerous Internet trend. Because it's hard for many people to differentiate a real news site from a fraudulent one, they can be hoodwinked by fictitious news stories pretending to be real. The result is that otherwise...

Exploit for Use After Free in Microsoft

Bluekeep PoC This repo contains research concerning CVE-2019-...

Beers with Talos Ep. #54: Patch after listening, RDP and wild 0-days

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 54 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded May 24, 2019 — There is another BlueX to talk about and guess what? YES, YOU STILL NEED TO PATCH. We talk about RDP, the...

Why You Should Join Carbon Black at QueryCon 2019

Carbon Black Joining Trail of Bits to Support QueryCon 2019 We are excited to announce that Carbon Black will be joining with Trail of Bits and Kolide to sponsor QueryCon 2019. QueryCon is a conference dedicated to Osquery, an open source tool that allows users to query their devices like a...

carmudi.com.ph Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher revydol Helped patch 116 vulnerabilities Received 2 Coordinated Disclosure badges , a holder of 2 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting carmudi.com.ph website and its users. Following coordinated and responsible vulnerabili...

On Verifiable Delay Functions - How to Slow Burning the Planet Down (Verifiably)

Update: you can find the Part II of this series here In this blog post I am going to talk about some really cool cryptographic research done by Luca De Feo, Simon Masson, Christophe Petit and myself around a relatively new cryptographic construction called Verifiable Delay Functions VDF from now...

Beers with Talos Ep. #53: Shiny happy election security (and ninjas)

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 53 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded May 10, 2019 — Election security has been a dominant headline for some time, so it’s high time we take a look at what th...

Slack Bug Allows Remote File Hijacking, Malware Injection

A remotely exploitable vulnerability in the Windows desktop app version of the Slack collaboration platform has been uncovered, which allows attackers to alter where files from Slack are downloaded. Nefarious types could redirect the files to their own SMB server; and, they could manipulate the...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 9.0.20

Important: Denial of Service CVE-2019-10072 The fix for CVE-2019-0199 was incomplete and did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write. By not sending WINDOWUPDATE messages for the connection window stream 0 clients were able to cause server-side threads to block eventually leading...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 8.5.41

Important: Denial of Service CVE-2019-10072 The fix for CVE-2019-0199 was incomplete and did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write. By not sending WINDOWUPDATE messages for the connection window stream 0 clients were able to cause server-side threads to block eventually leading...

Threat Source newsletter (May 9)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

UK Government gets serious about consumer IoT security. Legislation on the way

The Digital Minister Margot James today announced a concrete mandate for dealing with the slew of insecure IoT dross that has plagued consumers over the last few years. The aim is simple, to ensure that the millions of household items that are connected to the internet are better protected from...

Researchers Compromise Netflix Content in Widevine DRM Hack

Researchers have used a proof-of-concept PoC side-channel attack to download an unencrypted raw file for Netflix’ Stranger Things, in a format that’s ready to distribute out to any buyer on the internet. This pirate’s booty is the result of breaking open the widely deployed digital rights...

Beers with Talos Ep. #52: I don't trust you because I care

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 52 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded April 26, 2019 - Since Craig decided to skip the podcast today, we decided to invite one of Austin’s top actual security...

DNSpionage group’s Karkoff malware selectively pick victims

By Ryan De Souza Karkoff creates a timeline of the command execution which can be "extremely" useful when responding to this type of threat. The IT security researchers at Cisco's Talos threat research team have discovered a new malware that has been developed by the threat actors behind the...

Threat Source (April 25)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

Hackers using Google Sites to spread banking malware

By Uzair Amir The IT security researchers at Netskope Threat Research Labs have discovered a new malware hosted on the Google Sites, a dedicated platform offered by Google for developing websites. Dubbed LoadPCBanker by researchers; the malware is actually an executable that is hidden inside a PD...