The ‘Perfect Storm’ of Disinformation and Hacking

We live in an age of fake news, misinformation and disinformation. Recently, we have been falling for it – mostly. That is largely thanks to a confluence of social media, hacking and good old fashion disinformation campaigns, according to Matt “Pwn all the Things” Tait, a senior cybersecurity...

SpiderFoot 2.12 - Automates OSINT to find out everything possible about your target

SpiderFoot is a reconnaissance tool that automatically queries over 100 public data sources OSINT to gather intelligence on IP addresses, domain names, e-mail addresses, names and more. You simply specify the target you want to investigate, pick which modules to enable and then SpiderFoot will...

FireEye’s Marina Krotofil On Triton and ICS Threats

At the Security Analyst Summit this year in Cancun, FireEye’s Marina Krotofil talks about the Triton malware, first disclosed in December 2017, that targets industrial control systems. Krotofil discusses with Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell about the implications of this malware for the...

Vulnerability in Robots Can Lead To Costly Ransomware Attacks

CANCUN, Mexico – A vulnerability in Softbank Robotics’ NAO and Pepper robots can lead to costly ransomware attacks that could cause robots deployed in businesses to stop working, curse at customers, or even perform violent movements. The vulnerability was disclosed at Kaspersky Lab’s Security...

GOSINT - Open Source Threat Intelligence Gathering and Processing Framework

The GOSINT framework is a project used for collecting, processing, and exporting high quality indicators of compromise IOCs. GOSINT allows a security analyst to collect and standardize structured and unstructured threat intelligence. Applying threat intelligence to security operations enriches...

Equifax Takes Down Compromised Page Redirecting to Adware Download

Update: Equifax said Thursday afternoon that it was not compromised and instead confirmed it was a third-party partner’s code running on the Equifax site that was serving adware. Below is Equifax’s statement: “Despite early media reports, Equifax can confirm that its systems were not compromised...

IT threat evolution Q2 2017

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Back to the future: looking for a link between old and new APTs This year's Security Analyst Summit SAS included interesting research findings on several targeted attack campaigns. For example, researchers from Kaspersky Lab and King's College London present...

Mark Dowd on Exploit Mitigation Development

Mark Dowd, fresh off his 2017 Security Analyst Summit keynote, discusses why certain exploit mitigations have been so successful in driving up the cost of exploit development for attackers...

WarChild - Denial of Service Testing Suite

Warchild is a denial of service testing suite made for analysing the strength of your website against different kinds of denial of service attacks you will be facing which are mainly organised by crooks to cause damage to your website. Installation For Installing the required modules just run the...

On Baseband Vulnerabilities, SIEMs, Samsung Tizen and More

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook recap two conferences from last week: Infiltrate Con in Miami and Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit in St. Maarten. A baseband vulnerability, SIEMs, vulnerabilities in Samsung’s Tizen operating system, and an IoT honeypot are discussed. Download:...

Travel Routers, NAS Devices Among Easily Hacked IoT Devices

SINT MAARTEN—A researcher only needed 20 minutes last week to explain just how hopelessly broken some of the more popular Internet of Things devices on the market these days are. Jan Hoersch, an IT security consultant at Securai GmbH, a small pen-testing firm based in Munich, described...

Security Analyst Summit 2017 Day Two Recap

SINT MAARTEN—Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the second day of Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit, including how a Brazilian bank was compromised, a talk by Swisscom’s Markus Neis, and David Jacoby and Frans Rosen’s Hacking for Humanity talk. Download:...

Security Analyst Summit 2017 Day One Recap

SINT MAARTEN—Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the first day of this year’s Security Analyst Summit, including Mark Dowd’s memory corruption bug keynote, Thomas Rid, Daniel Moore, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, and Costin Raiu’s Moonlight Maze talk, ATM hacking, and the Lazarus APT. Download:...

On SAS 2017, the Microsoft IIS Zero Day, and Mirai

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook preview this year’s Security Analyst Summit and discuss the news of the week, including a Microsoft IIS zero day, a new Mirai variant, and the broadband privacy ruling. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMarch312017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

A Backdoor in Socat? Going Dark, IoT, and Previewing SAS 2016

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including internet-connected teddy bears, the latest on the Going Dark debate, and whether or not there’s a backdoor in Socat. They also preview next week’s Security Analyst Summit in Tenerife, Spain. Download:...

Wolf CMS - Arbitrary File Upload Execution

Wolf CMS - Arbitrary File Upload Execution Exploit Title : Wolf CMS 0.8.2 Arbitrary File Upload To Command Execution Reported Date : 05-May-2015 Fixed Date : 10-August-2015 Exploit Author : Narendra Bhati CVE ID : CVE-2015-6567 , CVE-2015-6568 Contact: Facebook :...

New Analytics Tool Defines Language Used Malicious Domains

OpenDNS has gone public with a new tool that uses a blend of analytics principles found outside information security to create a threat model for detecting domains used in criminal and state-sponsored hacking campaigns. NLPRank is not ready for production, said OpenDNS director of security resear...

Kris McConkey on OpSec Failures

At last week’s Security Analyst Summit Kris McConkey, part of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ UK Cyber Threat Operations team, discusses hacker OpSec failures: How attackers are still humans and sometimes make mistakes like using personal email addresses and real names in their campaigns...

Katie Moussouris on Starting a Bug Bounty Program

At last week’s Security Analyst Summit, HackerOne’s Katie Moussouris explains one of the key things that companies that want to start a bounty or vulnerability incentive program should know: There is no one size fits all...

Trey Ford on Mapping the Internet with Project Sonar

Trey Ford from Project Sonar describes the group’s initiative at Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit. The Rapid7 service scans public networks for applications, software, and hardware, then analyzes that cache of information to learn trends and gain insight on common vulnerabilities. Trey Ford...