Explained: YARA rules

YARA rules are a way of identifying malware or other files by creating rules that look for certain characteristics. YARA was originally developed by Victor Alvarez of Virustotal and is mainly used in malware research and detection. It was developed with the idea to describe patterns that identify...

EMET II のさらに先へ - Windows Defender Exploit Guard

本記事は、Security Research & Defense のブログ "Moving Beyond EMET II – Windows Defender Exploit Guard" 2017 年 8 月 9 日 米国時間公開 を翻訳したもので...

UPDATE: Gloom-Framework v1.7.5

PenTestIT RSS Feed Update time guys! Please refer my initial blog post about this open source penetration testing framework for Kali Linux. I just saw that it has been updated and we now have Gloom-Framework v1.7.5 with new features and a lot of bug fixes. Actually, it was updated quiet a number ...

BlackArch Linux v2017.08.30 - Penetration Testing Distribution

BlackArch Linux is an Arch Linux-based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. The repository contains 1859 tools. You can install tools individually or in groups. BlackArch Linux is compatible with existing Arch installs. ChangeLog: added more than 50 new tools bugfix:...

DirectDefense Incorrectly Asserts Architectural Flaw in Cb Response

Today, a blog was released that incorrectly asserts an architectural flaw in Cb Response that leaks customer data. In fact, this is an optional feature turned off by default to allow customers to share information with external sources for additional ability to detect threats. Cloud-based,...

Serverless, Real-time Malware Detection: BinaryAlert

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline where any file uploaded to an S3 bucket is immediately scanned with a configurable set of YARA rules. An alert will fire as soon as any match is found, giving an incident response team the ability to quickly contain the threat before it spread...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3926-1 (chromium-browser - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2017-5087 Ned Williamson discovered a way to escape the sandbox. CVE-2017-5088 Xiling Gong discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2017-5089 Michal Bentkowski discovered a spoofing issue...

Shorting-For-Profit Viable Business Model For Security Community

LAS VEGAS–Justine Bone shook up the security research community last year when she decided to do the unconventional. The CEO of MedSec Holdings teamed with hedge fund company Muddy Waters Capital to short the stock of St. Jude Medical in order to profit from research that revealed life-threatenin...

Revoke-Obfuscation: PowerShell Obfuscation Detection Using Science

Many attackers continue to leverage PowerShell as a part of their malware ecosystem, mostly delivered and executed by malicious binaries and documents. Of malware that uses PowerShell, the most prevalent use is the garden-variety stager: an executable or document macro that launches PowerShell to...

Modified Versions of Nukebot in Wild Since Source Code Leak

Some opportunistic criminals have put the leaked source code for the Nukebot banking Trojan to use, targeting banks in the United States and France with variants of the malware, while another group has adapted it to steal mail client and browser passwords. The leak was disclosed in early March wh...

Cisco DDR2200 / 2201v1 Insecure Direct Object Reference / Path Traversal Vulnerabilities

Cisco DDR2200 and 2201v1 ADSL2+ Residential Gateway devices suffer from insecure direct object reference vulnerabilities that allow for remote code execution as well as a path traversal issue. Copyright and Disclaimer The information in this advisory is Copyright 2017 Conviso and provided so that...

Using the CTS for vulnerability detection and principles of analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

360 Vulpecker team Membership 360 Information Security Department, committed to the Android application and the system-layer vulnerability discovery as well as other Android security research. We passed on the CTS frame of the research, the preparation of a vulnerability detection aspect of the...

Alpine Linux: From vulnerability discovery to code execution

I’ve recently uncovered two critical vulnerabilities in Alpine Linux’s package manager, assigned CVE-2017-9669 and CVE-2017-9671. These vulnerabilities could potentially lead to an attacker executing malicious code on your machines, if you are using Alpine knowingly or implicitly. Alpine Linux is...

Microsoft Skype v7.3.6 - Stack Overflow Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Microsoft Skype v7.3.6 - Stack Overflow Vulnerability References Source: ==================== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2071 MSRC ID: 38778 TRK ID: 0461000724 Vulnerability Magazine:...

Tales from the MSRC: from pixels to POC

Is this thing still on? It’s been a while since we’ve posted to this blog and we think it’s time to start posting deep technical content about Security Research & Defense SRD again. For readers who are new or may have forgotten, this blog is the home of the MSRC Vulnerabilities & Mitigations...

Tales from the MSRC: from pixels to POC

Is this thing still on? It’s been a while since we’ve posted to this blog and we think it’s time to start posting deep technical content about Security Research & Defense SRD again. For readers who are new or may have forgotten, this blog is the home of the MSRC Vulnerabilities & Mitigations...

Rapid7 issues comments on NAFTA renegotiation

In April 2017, President Trump issued an executive order directing a review of all trade agreements. This process is now underway: The United States Trade Representative USTR - the nation's lead trade agreement negotiator - formally requested public input on objectives for the renegotiation of th...

FIRST and Beyond – a History of Elevating Research through Partnerships

At the FIRST conference in San Juan, Trend Micro’s Forward-looking Threat Research team will be presenting four sessions on a wide range of topics. These sessions will demonstrate a sliver of the research going on at Trend Micro, and some of the partnerships that elevate the research to benefit t...

BWT EP6: Enter the Talos, But Please Use a Unique Password

LISTEN HERE:Listen via iTunesListen directly on the Talos Podcasts page.Episode Notes:The team discusses how to get into threat intel and join a team like Talos. There are many routes to enter the Talos, but no exits. Seriously, they won’t let me leave. Passwords, vaults, and other access control...

How vulnerability research benefits both vendors and customers

Zero-day vulnerabilities - newly discovered exploits that haven't been previously identified - are now emerging more often. Worse still is the fact that these dangerous flaws sometimes aren't pinpointed until hackers have already exploited them. According to a prediction from Cybersecurity Ventur...