Evading Link Scanning Security Services with Passive Fingerprinting

By Gal Bitensky, Executive Summary Link scanners are a critical component in multiple classes of security products including email security suites, websites that suggest direct inspection of a suspicious link, and others. Behind the scenes, these services use web clients...

Threat Roundup for March 22 to March 29

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between March 22 and March 29. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral...

CVE-2017-6417

Code injection vulnerability in Avira Total Security Suite 15.0 and earlier, Optimization Suite 15.0 and earlier, Internet Security Suite 15.0 and earlier, and Free Security Suite 15.0 and earlier allows a local attacker to bypass a self-protection mechanism, inject arbitrary code, and take full...