Implementing EQR — Creating a Solution for Real-Time Processing of Disparate Big Data Sources

Building an Event Query Router for Big Data Translation and Processing In a previous post, we discussed the data engineering challenge of scaling security. Analyzing the volume and variety of data required by a cybersecurity application isn’t an easy process, so we are always looking for innovati...

How To Handle Evolutions in Cybercrime

Cybercriminals are Evolving Attackers are constantly evolving their techniques—finding ways to evade your defenses and stay in your systems longer. Today, 68% of attacks remain undetected for months or more. Traditional antivirus AV can’t hold up against the modern hacker. New attacks, like...

SharPersist: Windows Persistence Toolkit in C#

Background PowerShell has been used by the offensive community for several years now but recent advances in the defensive security industry are causing offensive toolkits to migrate from PowerShell to reflective C to evade modern security products. Some of these advancements include Script Block...

Non-stack format string exploit techniques-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

On Linux the stack format string vulnerability in the use of online has many explanations, but non-stack format string vulnerability few people introduced. This is mainly over weekends SUCTF game playfmt topic, for example, detail about the bss segment or on the heap format strings the use of...

Influence Operations Kill Chain

Influence operations are elusive to define. The Rand Corp.'s definition is as good as any: "the collection of tactical information about an adversary as well as the dissemination of propaganda in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent." Basically, we know it when we see it, from bots...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Sodinokibi Ransomware

Sodinokibi otherwise known as Sodin or REvil is a ransomware variant that has recently been observed evolving its delivery techniques, leveraging fake antivirus software and PowerShell droppers. This malware appears to be related to GandCrab and is likely a result of their operation closing up...

Open-Xchange OX Guard Cross Site Scripting / Signature Validation

Dear subscribers, we're sharing our latest advisory with you and like to thank everyone who contributed in finding and solving those vulnerabilities. Feel free to join our bug bounty programs appsuite, dovecot, powerdns at HackerOne. Yours sincerely, Martin Heiland, Open-Xchange GmbH Product: OX...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Smominru Botnet Leverages New Attack Techniques

Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU and CB ThreatSight discovered the resurgence of a previously active crypytomining botnet campaign called Smominru. This campaign has evolved since its original discovery in the latter half of 2017, leveraging new techniques including LOLbins, polymorphic...

Binee: Outsmarting Malware with Next-Generation Process Emulation

The Problem with Malware Analysis Threat researchers get thousands of samples of malware every day and, as every researcher knows, it is very difficult to analyze them in a way that allows for intelligent decisions regarding whether a sample’s reputation is good or bad. There are already some qui...

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance - Path Traversal Exploit

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications require 'msf/core' class MetasploitModule "Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance - Path Traversal", 'Description' = %q Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance - Path Traversal CVE-2018-0296 A security vulnerability in Cisco ASA that would allow an...

DEF CON 2019: New Class of SQLite Exploits Open Door to iPhone Hack

LAS VEGAS – Researchers at Check Point have identified a new class of vulnerabilities targeting SQLite, outside the context of a browser for the first time. The new attack techniques exploit memory-corruption issues in the SQLite engine itself — leading to a host of new hacks, including code...

DEF CON 2019: MacOS Gets a Malware Beatdown in Attack Demo

LAS VEGAS – On Friday, Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle showed how an attacker can repurpose someone else’s Mac malware, create false attribution flags and sidestep Mac anti-malware defenses with ease. The attack scenarios were his own and meant to serve as cautionary examples and reasons w...

SQLMap v1.3.8 - 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...

Phishing Attacks Enlist Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure in Ploys

Recent phishing campaigns have been spotted boosting their anti-detection efforts by using Amazon Web Services to host their landing pages. It’s a sign of a nascent trend towards using public cloud storage, according to researchers. The attackers are also layering on various obfuscation technique...

MSNM-S - Multivariate Statistical Network Monitoring-Sensor

MSNM-S Multivariate Statistical Network Monitoring-Sensor shows the practical suitability of the approaches found in PCA-MSNM and in Hierarchical PCA-MSNM works. The first one present the MSNM approach and new multivariate statistical methodology for network anomaly detection while the second one...

Exploit kits: summer 2019 review

In the months since our last spring review, there has been some interesting activity from several exploit kits. While the playing field remains essentially the same with Internet Explorer and Flash Player as the most-commonly-exploited pieces of software, it is undeniable that there has been a...

Pyattck - A Python Module To Interact With The Mitre ATT&CK Framework

A Python Module to interact with the Mitre ATT&CK Framework. pyattck has the following notable features in it's current release: Retrieve all Tactics, Techniques, Actors, Malware, Tools, and Mitigations All techniques have suggested mitigations as a property For each class you can access addition...

New Android Spyware Created by Russian Defense Contractor Found in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new piece of mobile surveillance malware believed to be developed by a Russian defense contractor that has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Dubbed Monokle, the mobile remote-access trojan has been actively targeti...

This Week in Security News: Banking Malware and Phishing Campaigns

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the banking malware Anubis that has been retooled for use in fresh attack waves. Also, read about a new phishing campaign that...

Sea Turtle keeps on swimming, finds new victims, DNS hijacking techniques

By Danny Adamitis with contributions from Paul Rascagneres. Executive summary After several months of activity, the actors behind the "Sea Turtle" DNS hijacking campaign are not slowing down. Cisco Talos recently discovered new details that suggest they regrouped after we published our initial...