TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: PPID Spoofing – Explorer CLSID

Summary Popular Attack Surface Reduction bypasses allow adversaries to hinder threat hunting activities by spoofing Parent Process ID. PPID to PID relationships have always been a key indicator of compromise and removing these conditions lead to false sense of security. Upon investigation its bee...

Sn0Int - Semi-automatic OSINT Framework And Package Manager

sn0int is a semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager. It was built for IT security professionals and bug hunters to gather intelligence about a given target or about yourself. sn0int is enumerating attack surface by semi-automatically processing public information and mapping the result...

LabKey Vulnerabilities Threaten Medical Research Data

A trio of vulnerabilities in a popular open source medical data collaboration tool leaves important healthcare research data and potentially subject information open to multiple cross site scripting XSS attacks. The flaws are serious as they allow an attacker to retrieve user credentials once a...

Fighting Fire with Fire: API Automation Risks

Akamai research shows that 83 percent of all traffic on the web today are API calls JSON / XML. In many cases this fast growth can be attributed to the adoption and popularity of mobile devices and the mobile app ecosystem, as well as the abuse by threat actors using bots to automate their manual...

Linux: Mounting of squashfs filesystems

The squashfs filesystem type is a compressed read-only Linux filesystem embedded in small footprint systems similar to cramfs. A squashfs image can be used without having to first decompress the image. Removing support for unneeded filesystem types reduces the local attack surface of the system. ...

Linux: Mounting of udf filesystems

The udf filesystem type is the universal disk format used to implement ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167 specifications. This is an open vendor filesystem type for data storage on a broad range of media. This filesystem type is necessary to support writing DVDs and newer optical disc formats. Removing...

Huawei Router Flaw Leaks Default Credential Status

A vulnerability in some Huawei routers used for carrier ISP services allows cybercriminals to identify whether the devices have default credentials or not – without ever connecting to them. CVE-2018-7900 exists in the router panel and allows credentials information to leak – so attackers can simp...

From DirectX to the Windows Kernel--a few of the CVE vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, Foreword Operating systemthe kernel is each vulnerability the use of chain final goal, we can view the Zero Day Initiative ZDI Pwn2Own calendar year, race, and understand this aspect of the content. Windows kernel has always been the attacker keen to target, my favorite is the abuse of the...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — November 2018: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 53 vulnerabilities, 11 of which are rated "critical," 40 that are rated "important” and one “moderate” and “low” vulnerability, each. The...

Hackertarget - Tools And Network Intelligence To Help Organizations With Attack Surface Discovery

Use open source tools and network intelligence to help organizations with attack surface discovery and identification of security vulnerabilities. Identification of an organizations vulnerabilities is an impossible task without tactical intelligence on the network footprint. By combining open...

Artificial Intelligence: A Cybersecurity Tool for Good, and Sometimes Bad

Artificial intelligence is the new golden ring for cybersecurity developers, thanks to its potential to not just automate functions at scale but also to make contextual decisions based on what it learns over time. This can have big implications for security personnel—all too often, companies simp...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Block Office applications from creating executable content

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winavblockofficeexeccontent.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Configure Attack Surface Reduction rules: Block Office applications from creating executable content Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyrig...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Block Win32 imports from macro code in Office

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winavblockwin32importoffice.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Configure Attack Surface Reduction rules: Block Win32 imports from macro code in Office Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Impede JavaScript and VBScript to launch executables

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winavimpedejsvbsexec.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Configure Attack Surface Reduction rules: Impede JavaScript and VBScript to launch executables Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Block execution of potentially obfuscated scripts

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winavblockexecobfuscatedscripts.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Configure Attack Surface Reduction rules: Block execution of potentially obfuscated scripts Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Block Office applications from injecting into other processes

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winavblockofficeinjecting.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Configure Attack Surface Reduction rules: Block Office applications from injecting into other processes Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright:...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Block Office applications from creating child processes

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winavofficesubprocesses.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Configure Attack Surface Reduction rules Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Block executable content from email client and webmail

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winavblockexeccontentmail.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Configure Attack Surface Reduction rules: Block executable content from email client and webmail Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c...

Psychological Aspects of Vulnerability Remediation

In my opinion, Remediation is the most difficult part of Vulnerability Management process. If you know the assets in your organization and can assess them, you will sooner or later produce a good enough flow of critical vulnerabilities. But what the point, if the IT team will not fix them?...

Browser Extensions: Are They Worth the Risk?

Popular file-sharing site Mega.nz is warning users that cybercriminals hacked its browser extension for Google Chrome so that usernames and passwords submitted through the browser were copied and forwarded to a rogue server in Ukraine. This attack serves as a fresh reminder that legitimate browse...