Flying Under the Radar: How Hackers Use Protection Strategies for Attack

It's a recurring theme in sports movies, war stories and crime stories alike: In order to defeat the enemy, one must think like the enemy. This approach has been taken - oftentimes quite successfully - in an array of settings, including the cybersecurity realm. Security researchers are constantly...

Blinking Router LEDs Leak Data From Air-Gapped Networks

Researchers have uncovered a new data extraction hole inside air-gapped networks that takes advantage of the blinking LED lights on top of routers to steal data. In a report published last week, researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Israel demonstrated how a router or switch running malware...

How vulnerability research benefits both vendors and customers

Zero-day vulnerabilities - newly discovered exploits that haven't been previously identified - are now emerging more often. Worse still is the fact that these dangerous flaws sometimes aren't pinpointed until hackers have already exploited them. According to a prediction from Cybersecurity Ventur...

Surveillance Intermediaries

Interesting law-journal article: "Surveillance Intermediaries," by Alan Z. Rozenshtein. Abstract:Apple's 2016 fight against a court order commanding it to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists exemplifies how central the question of regulating government...

Beware! Fireball Malware Infects Nearly 250 Million Computers Worldwide

Security researchers have discovered a massive malware campaign that has already infected more than 250 million computers across the world, including Windows and Mac OS. Dubbed Fireball, the malware is an adware package that takes complete control of victim's web browsers and turns them into...

What Are Domain Generation Algorithms (DGAs) And Why You Should Care?

Last time I talked about how a proactive approach to defending against targeted threats using cloud-based recursive DNS and threat intelligence just makes sense. Taking this proactive approach early in the killchain can help mitigate known and unknown threats before any IP connection, file downlo...

Cyber Espionage is Alive and Well: APT32 and the Threat to Global Corporations

Cyber espionage actors, now designated by FireEye as APT32 OceanLotus Group, are carrying out intrusions into private sector companies across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. FireEye assesses that APT32 leverages a unique suite of...

Windows Penetration Testing Tool: RedSnarf

Windows Penetration Testing Tool RedSnarf is a pen-testing / red-teaming tool by Ed William and Richard Davy for retrieving hashes and credentials from Windows workstations, servers and domain controllers using OpSec Safe Techniques. RedSnarf aims to do the following: Leave no evidence on the hos...

Supply Chain Update Software Unknowingly Used in Attacks

Microsoft said a recent attack it calls Operation WilySupply utilized the update mechanism of an unnamed software editing tool to infect targets in the finance and payment industries with in-memory malware. The unnamed editing tool was used to send unsigned malicious updates to users in targeted...

Trend Micro Smart Protection Complete Receives 5-Star Review from SC Magazine

The best days are the ones you wake up to good news you weren’t expecting, right? Well, earlier this month we woke up to find out the Trend Micro Smart Protection Complete had received a five-star rating and “Best Buy” recommendation from one of the security industries leading publications at SC...

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...