Researchers: NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Should Spark Bans, Apple Accountability

News of a zero-click zero-day in Apple’s iMessage feature being incorporated into the notorious Pegasus mobile spyware from NSO Group has drawn a variety of reactions from the security community, including concerns about the security of Apple’s closed ecosystem, and varying views on NSO Group’s...

Babuk Ransomware Builder Mysteriously Appears in VirusTotal

The Babuk ransomware gang’s source code has been uploaded to VirusTotal, making it available to all security vendors and competitors. It’s unclear however just how that happened. According to a Wednesday posting from Malwarebytes, the operators of the ransomware – perhaps best-known for hitting t...

How purple teams can embrace hacker culture to improve security

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Matthew Hickey, co-founder, CEO, and writ...

[Security Nation] How Robert Black Wards Off Cyber-Attackers with Deception Techniques

!\Security Nation\ How Robert Black Wards Off Cyber-Attackers with Deception Techniqueshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/05/securitynationlogo-2.jpg In our latest episode of Security Nation, we talk with Robert Black, Deputy Director of the UK National Cyber Deception Lab, about his wor...

Microsoft is a Leader in the 2021 Forrester Endpoint Security Software as a Service Wave

We are excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Endpoint Security Software as a Service, Q2 20211, receiving one of the highest scores in the strategy category and among the top three scores in the current offering category. Forrester notes that “the focus on...

[Security Nation] Marina Ciavatta and int eighty Put the Fun into Hacking With Hacking Esports and Dual Core Music

!\Security Nation\ Marina Ciavatta and int eighty Put the Fun into Hacking With Hacking Esports and Dual Core Musichttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/04/securitynationlogo-65.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we are joined by Marina Ciavatta and int eighty to talk about Hacking...

Turning the page on Solorigate and opening the next chapter for the security community

The recent SolarWinds attack is a moment of reckoning. Today, as we close our own internal investigation of the incident, we continue to see an urgent opportunity for defenders everywhere to unify and protect the world in a more concerted way. We also see an opportunity for every company to adopt...

Sophisticated cybersecurity threats demand collaborative, global response

Microsoft’s response to Solorigate Since December, the United States, its government, and other critical institutions including security firms have been addressing the world’s latest serious nation-state cyberattack, sometimes referred to as ‘Solorigate’ or ‘SUNBURST.’ As we shared earlier this i...

ZINC attacks against security researchers

In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. The campaign originally came to our attention after Microsoft Defender for Endpoint detected an attack in progress. Observed targeting includes pen testers, private offensive securit...

ZINC attacks against security researchers

In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. The campaign originally came to our attention after Microsoft Defender for Endpoint detected an attack in progress. Observed targeting includes pen testers, private offensive securit...

Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 28, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. Unfortunately, I don’t have any stock tips to give you to help you get rich overnight. But I do have two Vulnerability Spotlights you should read so your network can stay safer. We disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in phpGACL and...

Taking Inspiration from Our Security Nation in an Otherwise Uninspiring Year

Well, what a year it has been. I won’t waste your time by recapping the many, many difficulties that 2020 has offered us, and instead, I will try to take a slightly different tack. While it has been a challenging for some, truly hellacious year, as we close it out, I’ve been trying out a little...

Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks

Note: we are updating as the investigation continues. Revision history listed at the bottom. This post contains technical details about the methods of the actor we believe was involved in Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks, with the goal to enable the broader security community to hunt for activit...

Unauthorized Access of FireEye Red Team Tools

Overview A highly sophisticated state-sponsored adversary stole FireEye Red Team tools. Because we believe that an adversary possesses these tools, and we do not know whether the attacker intends to use the stolen tools themselves or publicly disclose them, FireEye is releasing hundreds of...

ReconNote - Web Application Security Automation Framework Which Recons The Target For Various Assets To Maximize The Attack Surface For Security Professionals & Bug-Hunters

Web Application Security ReconAutomation Framework It takes user input as a domain name and maximize the attack surface area by listing the assets of the domain like - Subdomains from - Amass ,findomain, subfinder & resolvable subdomains using shuffledns Screenshots Port Scan JS files Httpx Statu...

Black Hat USA, DEF CON 28 Go Virtual

Cybersecurity conferences Black Hat USA and DEF CON 28 will not be held in person this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The conferences will both instead be transformed into completely virtualized events. Both back-to-back annual conferences were set to take place in Las Vegas this year; Bla...

COVID-19 Phishing: Exploiting a Global Pandemic

It's sad to think criminals are hard at work taking advantage of the extraordinary stress the world's population is currently experiencing. But they are. New phishing scams exploiting anxiety about COVID-19 are trending upward. Akamai's Carrier Data Science and Threat Research teams analyzing...

In COVID-19 Scam Scramble, Cybercrooks Recycle Phishing Kits

Phishing attacks looking to take advantage of interest and fear around the COVID-19 health crisis are becoming a pandemic themselves – and apparently cybercriminals are looking to conserve resources by leaning on their older stockpiles of weapons to keep the infection wave going. Or Katz, a...

Threatpost Poll: Are Published PoC Exploits a Good or Bad Idea?

The practice of disclosing proof-of-concept PoC exploits has long caused a debate in the security community. As the name suggests, these outline steps used to exploit a vulnerability in a system to show how it can be done — and are used to test networks and pinpoint vulnerable aspects of a system...

Online Book Store 1.0 - Arbitrary File Upload

Exploit Title: Online Book Store 1.0 - Arbitrary File Upload Google Dork: N/A Date: 2020-01-16 Exploit Author: Or4nG.M4n aka S4udiExploit Vendor Homepage: https://projectworlds.in/free-projects/php-projects/online-book-store-project-in-php/ Software Link:...