Bitfi research receives Pwnie Award for ‘lamest vendor response’

The Pwnie Awards is an annual celebration of the achievements of security researchers and the security community. It's also an opportunity to roast vendors for lame responses to security concerns. The ceremony took place last night, August 8th, 2018 in Las Vegas at the BlackHat USA security...

Microsoft’s Top 100 Security Researchers – Black Hat 2018 Edition

This morning we are excited to unveil the security researcher leaderboard at the Black Hat Security Conference. This list recognizes the top security researchers who have contributed research to the Microsoft products and services. If you are curious on how we build the list, check out our blog...

Cb Customer Spotlight Series: Q & A with Project Worldwide’s Thomas Munson

Everyday, Carbon Black customers are working together to keep their organizations safe from cyber attacks. To share the knowledge our customers have with the greater security community, we are excited to announce the launch of the Cb Customer Spotlight Series. The Cb Customer Spotlight Series...

Malwarebytes CrackMe 2: try another challenge

Last November, we released the first edition of the Malwarebytes CrackMe. Encouraged by the positive response we received from the security community, we decided to repeat the game, hopefully making it even more interesting and entertaining. As before, the CrackMe is dedicated to malware analysts...

MyCrypto: Content Spoofing or Text Injection support.mycrypto.com

w2w reported a text injection attack where the user could be shown arbitrary text injected via query parameters. The MyCrypto team worked with w2w to resolve these issues, and appreciate the responsible disclosure. We look forward to continuing to work with the security community to triage and...

Inside the MSRC – How we recognize our researchers

This is the first of a series of blog entries to give some insight into the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC business and how we work with security researchers and vulnerability reports. The Microsoft Security Response Center actively recognizes those security researchers who help us to...

D-Link DNS-343 ShareCenter < 1.05 - Command Injection

Introduction The purpose of this article is to detail the research that I have recently completed regarding the D-Link DNS 343 ShareCenter. Background The D-Link ShareCenter 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure DNS-343 connects to your network instead of to a computer so everyone on your network can...

Virus Bulletin Publication And Presentation

Virus Bulletin conference is a well regarded intimate technical conference focused on malware research. It provides a good balance between listening to technical talks and spending time exchanging experiences with colleagues from different companies; all working on the same task of making our...

A state of constant uncertainty or uncertain constancy? Fast flux explained

Last August, WireX made headlines. For one thing, it was dubbed the first-known DDoS botnet that used the Android platform. For another, it used a technique that—for those who have been around in the industry for quite a while now—rung familiar in the ears: fast flux. In the context of...

Extending the Microsoft Office Bounty Program

Microsoft announces the extension of the Microsoft Office Bounty Program through December 31, 2017. This extension is retroactive for any cases submitted during the interim. The engagement we have had with the security community has been great and we are looking to continue that collaboration on...

Extending the Microsoft Office Bounty Program

Microsoft announces the extension of the Microsoft Office Bounty Program through December 31, 2017. This extension is retroactive for any cases submitted during the interim. The engagement we have had with the security community has been great and we are looking to continue that collaboration on...

UNITEDRAKE Looms Large…Maybe

Responsible disclosure is a critical process in the security community. It’s the way for security researchers and vendors to work together in order to improve system security for users. We see the opposite of this process in the digital underground. Cybercriminals often sell exploits and maliciou...

4 steps for improving employee trust while securing them

Earlier this month we held our quarterly Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques Q2 2017 webinar. This event gave thousands of security practitioners and leaders a chance to learn about the latest analysis of threats Malwarebytes Labs has seen around the globe. In case you missed it, you can watch an...

Will The Real Security Community Please Stand Up

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Black Hat 2017 was a vocabulary lesson for white-hats, and yes, words matter. Words such as nihilism, empathy and inclusion have to matter, because what you’re doing n...

WannaCry Update: Vulnerable SMB Shares Are Widely Deployed And People Are Scanning For Them

WannaCry Overview Last week the WannaCry ransomware worm, also known as Wanna Decryptor, Wanna Decryptor 2.0, WNCRY, and WannaCrypt started spreading around the world, holding computers for ransom at hospitals, government offices, and businesses. To recap: WannaCry exploits a vulnerability in the...

Rapid7: Supporting the Community at BSides Boston

One of the things I love about working at Rapid7 is how deeply this company embodies the concept of giving back to the Security Community. Whether it be discussing research on adversary analytics, attack methods for breaking out of sandboxes, or simply breaking into the industry - Rapid7 encourag...

Microsoft Waits for Patch Tuesday to Fix SMB Zero Day

Microsoft will not rush out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability disclosed on Wednesday in the Windows implementation of the Server Message Block protocol. Researcher Laurent Gaffie announced in a tweet, below, that he’d found a zero-day vulnerability in SMBv3 and released a...

Through static analysis and detection binary code in Use-After-Free vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Use-After-Free is a well-known vulnerability types, is often a modern attack code The use of referring to Pwn2own 2016 on. In the research project AnaStaSec, AMOSSYS provides a lot of information about how the static detection binary code of such vulnerability. In this blog, we will send the read...

Misuse of Language: 'Cyber'

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributors are Dave Dittrich and Katherine Carpenter. The terms “cyber war” and “cyber weapon” are thrown around casually, often with little thought to their...

BlueHat v16 Announced

Microsoft is pleased to announce our sixteenth BlueHat Security Conference set for November 3-4, 2016 at the Microsoft Conference Center here in Redmond. BlueHat is a unique opportunity for Microsoft engineers and the security community to come together learn about the current threat landscape an...