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...

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...

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...

SQLMap v1.3.7 - 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...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #4

With Black Hat USA 2019 fast approaching, we continue our blog series highlighting training sessions and research briefings that we think Qualys customers will find relevant and valuable. Our pick this week is the training session An Introduction To IoT Pentesting With Linux. The course offers “a...

Unprotect Project: Classify Malwares Based on Known Evasion Techniques

PenTestIT RSS Feed One of the first steps in learning about a malware is to see if it is evasive in any sense and then proceed accordingly. The Unprotect Project helps you do this easily. It is an open source project in Python that proposes a malware classification techniques based on their evasi...

Catch Me If You Can: Evasive and Defensive Techniques in Phishing

Phishing is a multifaceted type of attack, aimed at collecting usernames and passwords, personal information, or sometimes both. Yet, these attacks only work so long as the phishing kit itself remains hidden. Phishing is a numbers game and time is...