Locky Ransomware Roars Back to Life Via Necurs Botnet

Cybercriminals behind the Locky ransomware and Necurs botnet are back in business. Last Friday researchers spotted both delivering nearly 35,000 emails in just a few hours, the first major Locky campaign researchers have seen in months, according to Cisco Talos. Researchers warn the latest Locky...

Combating a spate of Java malware with machine learning in real-time

In recent weeks, we have seen a surge in emails carrying fresh malicious Java .jar malware that use new techniques to evade antivirus protection. But with our research team’s automated expert systems and machine learning models, Windows 10 PCs get real-time protection against these latest threats...

APT10 (MenuPass Group): New Tools, Global Campaign Latest Manifestation of Longstanding Threat

APT10 Background APT10 MenuPass Group is a Chinese cyber espionage group that FireEye has tracked since 2009. They have historically targeted construction and engineering, aerospace, and telecom firms, and governments in the United States, Europe, and Japan. We believe that the targeting of these...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: R-3.3.3-1.fc26

This is a metapackage that provides both core R userspace and all R development components. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is similar to the award-winning S system, which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides a wide varie...

Fraudsters Using GiftGhostBot Botnet to Steal Gift Card Balances

Gift cards have once again caused quite a headache for retailers, as cyber criminals are using a botnet to break into and steal cash from money-loaded gift cards provided by major retailers around the globe. Dubbed GiftGhostBot, the new botnet specialized in gift card fraud is an advanced...

Blank Slate Campaign Pushes Cerber Ransomware

Criminals are breathing new life into Cerber ransomware with a stubborn spam campaign called Blank Slate that is successfully abusing hosting providers to spread the malware. Researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center said the campaign has shifted from spreading Sage 2.0 and Locky ransomware, ...

Cody Pierce on the Future of Exploit Development

Mike Mimoso talks to Cody Pierce, director of vulnerability research and prevention with Endgame, at RSA Conference 2017 about how attackers are changing their techniques in the face of mitigations and continuing to base exploits around legitimate APIs and functions to thwart detection. Download:...

WikiLeaks Exposed CIA's Hacking Tools And Capabilities Details

WikiLeaks has published a massive trove of confidential documents in what appear to be the biggest ever leak involving the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA. WikiLeaks announced series Year Zero, under which the whistleblower organization will reveal details of the CIA's global covert hacking...

Spammer's Leaky Backup Exposes Massive Empire

A massive spam operation that sent more than one billion messages a day was exposed by researchers who credit a poorly configured remote synchronization backup for tipping them off to what they say is a “tangible threat to online privacy and security.” The faulty backup publicly exposed data...

Database of 1.4 Billion Records leaked from World’s Biggest Spam Networks

A database of 1.4 billion email addresses combined with real names, IP addresses, and often physical address has been exposed in what appears to be one the largest data breach of this year. What's worrisome? There are high chances that you, or at least someone you know, is affected by this latest...

OverThruster - HID Attack Payload Generator For Arduinos

OverThruster is a tool to generate sketches for Arduinos when used as an HID Attack. It was designed around devices with the ATMEGA32U4 chip, like the CJMCU-BEETLE, or the new LilyGo "BadUSB" devices popping up on ebay and aliexpress that look like USB sticks but contain an Arduino. I wrote this...

Spear Phishing Techniques Used in Attacks Targeting the Mongolian Government

Introduction FireEye recently observed a sophisticated campaign targeting individuals within the Mongolian government. Targeted individuals that enabled macros in a malicious Microsoft Word document may have been infected with Poison Ivy, a popular remote access tool RAT that has been used for...

The ASLR protection mechanism is a breakthrough attack technical analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, hardware-based attacks have been started by Rowhammer memory leaks or bypass the address space layout randomization protection mechanisms to attack the system, these attacks are based on the processor's memory management unit MMU with a page table interactive interactive manner. These...

Windows Botnet Spreading Mirai Variant

A Chinese-speaking attacker is spreading a Mirai variant from a repurposed Windows-based botnet. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab published a report today, and said the code was written by an experienced developer who also built in the capability to spread the IoT malware to Linux machines under...

Simple Static Malware Analyzer: SSMA

Simple Static Malware Analyzer SSMA is a simple malware analyzer written in Python 3. Features: Analyze PE file’s header and sections number of sections, entropy of sections/PE file, suspicious section names, suspicious flags in the characteristics of the PE file, etc. Searches for possible...

Enhanced Analysis of GRIZZLY STEPPE

The Department of Homeland Security DHS has released an Analysis Report AR related to malicious cyber activity designated as GRIZZLY STEPPE. This AR provides a thorough analysis of the methods threat actors use to infiltrate systems, as well as specific mitigation techniques that may be used to...

Fileless Memory-Based Malware Plagues 140 Banks, Enterprises

Attackers have been using well-known, standard utilities to carry out attacks on organizations around the world, and covering their tracks by wiping their activity from the machine’s memory before its rebooted. The attackers, who may be connected to the GCMAN and Carbanak groups, aren’t using...

Google Android - cfp_ropp_new_key_reenc and cfp_ropp_new_key RKP Memory Corruption Exploit

Exploit for Android platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=979 As part of Samsung KNOX, Samsung phones include a security hypervisor called RKP Real-time Kernel Protection, running in EL2. This hypervisor is meant to ensure that the HLOS...

Mobile Application Security Training Platform: Security Shepherd

The OWASP Security Shepherd project is a web and mobile application security training platform. Security Shepherd has been designed to foster and improve security awareness among a varied skill-set demographic. The aim of this project is to take AppSec novices or experienced engineers and sharpen...

reversemap - Analyse SQL injection attempts in web server logs

Analyse SQL injection attempts in web server logs The program can either be run in batch mode or interactive mode. In batch mode the program will accept Apache web server logs and will deobfuscate requested URLs from the logs. In interactive mode the program will prompt for user input and will...