Ex-CIA Accused of Leaking Secret Hacking Tools to WikiLeaks Gets Mistrial

A federal judge in New York on Monday declared a mistrial in the case of a former CIA software engineer who was accused of stealing a massive trove of the agency's classified hacking and tools and leaking it to WikiLeaks whistleblower website. While the jury was unable to reach a verdict on eight...

HTTP Asynchronous Reverse Shell - Asynchronous Reverse Shell Using The HTTP Protocol

Today there are many ways to create a reverse shell in order to be able to remotely control a machine through a firewall. Indeed, outgoing connections are not always filtered. However security software and hardware IPS, IDS, Proxy, AV, EDR... are more and more powerful and can detect these attack...

CVE-2020-3155 Cisco Intelligent Proximity SSL Certificate Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the SSL implementation of the Cisco Intelligent Proximity solution could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to view or alter information shared on Cisco Webex video devices and Cisco collaboration endpoints if the products meet the conditions described in the Vulnerable...

Install Python for Windows

This module places an embeddable Python3 distribution onto the target file system, granting pentesters access to a lightweight Python interpreter. This module does not require administrative privileges or user interaction with installation prompts. This module requires Metasploit:...

Download Guide — Advanced Threat Protection Beyond the AV

At a certain point, almost every organization reaches the conclusion that there is a need to move past just the standard AV and firewall stack in order to soundly protect their environment. The common practice in recent years is to gain extra protection through implementing either EDR\EPP solutio...

Spoofing

In NETGEAR Nighthawk X10-R9000 prior to 1.0.4.26, an attacker may execute arbitrary system commands as root by sending a specially-crafted MAC address to the "NETGEAR Genie" SOAP endpoint at AdvancedQoS:GetCurrentBandwidthByMAC. Although this requires QoS being enabled, advanced QoS being enabled...

Report to Your Management with the Definitive ‘IR Management and Reporting’ presentation Template

The realistic approach to security is that incidents occur. While ideally, the CISO would want to prevent all of them, in practice some will succeed to a certain degree—making the ability to efficiently manage an incident response process a mandatory skill for any CISO. Moreover, apart from the...

Emotet Now Hacks Nearby Wi-Fi Networks to Spread Like a Worm

A newly uncovered Emotet malware sample has the ability to spread to insecure Wi-Fi networks that are located nearby to an infected device. If the malware can spread to these nearby Wi-Fi networks, it then attempts to infect devices connected to them — a tactic that can rapidly escalate Emotet’s...

ysoserial

This is a proof-of-concept tool for generating payloads that exploit unsafe Java object deserialization. The tool, ysoserial, is a collection of utilities and property-oriented programming "gadget chains" discovered in common Java libraries that can, under the right conditions, exploit Java...

Memhunter - Live Hunting Of Code Injection Techniques

Memhunter is an endpoint sensor tool that is specialized in detecing resident malware, improving the threat hunter analysis process and remediation times. The tool detects and reports memory-resident malware living on endpoint processes. Memhunter detects known malicious memory injection...

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THC's favourite Tips, Tricks & Hacks Cheat Sheet https://th...

Evaluating Your Security Controls? Be Sure to Ask the Right Questions

Testing security controls is the only way to know if they are truly defending your organization. With many different testing frameworks and tools to choose from, you have lots of options. But what do you specifically want to know? And how are the findings relevant to the threat landscape you face...

Joker Android Malware Snowballs on Google Play

Google has removed 17,000 Android apps to date from the Play store that have been conduits for the Joker malware a.k.a. Bread – and in an analysis of the code, said that Joker’s operators have “at some point used just about every cloaking and obfuscation technique under the sun in an attempt to g...

What the continued escalation of tensions in the Middle East means for security

Cisco Talos works with many organizations around the world, monitoring and protecting against sophisticated threats every day. As such, we are watching the current state of events in the Middle East very closely for our customers and partners who may be impacted by the ongoing situation. We are...

Dubious downloads: How to check if a website and its files are malicious

A significant amount of malware infections and potentially unwanted program PUP irritants are the result of downloads from unreliable sources. There are a multitude of websites that specialize in distributing malicious payloads by offering them up as something legitimate or by bundling the desire...

Facebook Cracks Down on Deepfake Videos

Facebook is banning deepfake videos, which stem from a technique of human-image synthesis based on artificial intelligence AI to create fake content. Over the past year, security experts and lawmakers have voiced concerns about malicious deepfake applications, particularly as a vessel for...

A week in security (December 30 – January 5)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a dive into edge computing, looked at new web skimmer techniques, and rolled our eyes at silly people doing silly things. Other cybersecurity news: Stills and chills: A Reddit user notices their security camera is grabbing stills from other people’s devices...

SQLMap v1.4 - Automatic SQL Injection And Database Takeover Tool

SQLMap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lastin...

New evasion techniques found in web skimmers

For a number of years, criminals have been able to steal credit card details from unaware online shoppers without attracting too much attention. Few people in the security industry were talking about these credit card web skimmers, both server-side and client-side, before the latter became largel...

Inspecting TLS Web Traffic - Part 2

In the first blog post I covered why HTTPS web traffic has grown to unprecedented levels, provided a TLS primer and looked at the basic concept of intercepting and inspecting HTTPS web traffic with Man-In-The-Middle techniques MITM. In the second part, I will dive a bit deeper into how the TLS MI...