Windows BITS 'Notification' Feature Used to Deliver Malware

Attackers have found a new way to exploit the Widows Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS which is being used to infect and reinfect targeted PCs with malware even after the initial infection has been removed. According to security researchers at Dell SecureWorks, attackers are exploiting...

New Angler Exploits Bypass EMET Mitigations

New Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash exploits that bypass Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET have found their way into an updated version of the Angler Exploit Kit. EMET is a suite of freely available tools for Windows machines that mitigate memory-based attacks. The...

IRONGATE ICS Malware: Nothing to See Here...Masking Malicious Activity on SCADA Systems

In the latter half of 2015, the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team identified several versions of an ICS-focused malware crafted to manipulate a specific industrial process running within a simulated Siemens control system environment. We named this family of malware IRONGATE...

Top Websites Using Audio Fingerprinting to Secretly Track Web Users

Despite browsing incognito, blocking advertisements, or hiding your tracks, some websites monitor and track your every move online using a new web-tracking technique called Audio Fingerprinting. This new fingerprinting technique can be utilized by technology and marketing companies to deliver...

Cerber Ransomware Partners with the Dridex Spam Distributor

Cerber ransomware incorporates the unusual feature of “speaking” its ransom message after successfully infecting a user machine and encrypting files. Cerber was first seen in the wild at the end of February 2016 and was observed being delivered mostly via exploit kits EK, notably using Magnitude...

Facebook Open Sources its Capture the Flag (CTF) Platform

Hacking into computer, networks and websites could easily land you in jail. But what if you could freely test and practice your hacking skills in a legally safe environment? Facebook just open-sourced its Capture The Flag CTF platform to encourage students as well as developers to learn about cyb...

Latest TeslaCrypt Targets New File Extensions, Invests Heavily in Evasion

TeslaCrypt, like many of its ransomware cousins, doesn’t sleep on past success. Researchers at Endgame Inc., have found two updates for the cryptoransomware in the past two weeks that invest heavily in obfuscation and evasion techniques, and also target a host of new file extensions. These sample...

Ghosts in the Endpoint

We would like to introduce the first of our “Ghosts in the Endpoint” series, a report prepared by FireEye Labs that documents malicious software not being detected in the wild by traditional signature-based detections. In this study, all the families identified are samples from VirusTotal VT with...

The exception in the exception: by means of a system of exception handling exception achieve incredible exploit-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Memory read, write, execute attribute is system security the most important one of the mechanisms. Usually, if you want to overwrite the data in memory, you must first ensure that the block of memory having a write attribute, if you want to execute a piece of code in memory, you must first ensure...

Recent js blackmailer anti-killing skills analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently many users reflect the computer in a blackmailer virus, also known as the“Locky ransomware”, the computer in documents, pictures and other important information is virus encryption. Such viral vectors for the js script by js script download remote server of the pe file, and that this pe...

How to Draw 3D and Illusions - MIT license, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application How to Draw 3D and Illusions published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

An iOS 0-day will lead to iCloud photos and videos in crack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

There is a bad news, the Johns Hopkins University's Matthew Green, a Professor in the iOS encryption system found a 0-day vulnerability, which could allow a skilled attacker to intercept and decipher iMessages on. However, the good news is that this vulnerability is hard to exploit. Green explain...

Stop Scanning My Macro

FireEye Labs detected an interesting evasion strategy in two recent, large Dridex campaigns. These campaigns changed the attachment file-type and location of malicious logic in an attempt to avoid scanners. Overview Both campaigns used an invoice theme and came from a wide variety of sending...

Using EMET to Disable EMET

UPDATE July 7: This post has been updated in advance of a Black Hat 2016 presentation. Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET is a project that adds security mitigations to user mode programs beyond those built in to the operating system. It runs inside “protected” programs as a...

URLZone Zones in on Japan

Recently we’ve seen an interesting trend from several crimeware families that were mainly active in the European region, and have now expanded their activity to Japan. Rovnix is one such family, as recently reported by IBM X-Force. At the same time, we’ve seen another spam campaign break out in...

Holiday Season 2015 Email Campaign

The holiday season is a time when many people go on vacation or at least get much-needed downtime from work, but that is not always the case with attackers. To better understand the threats we face during “the most wonderful time of the year,” FireEye Labs has been collecting data on the most...

LiteSpeed Web Server 5.1.0 HTTP Header Injection

Information -------------------- Advisory by Netsparker Name: HTTP Header Injection in LiteSpeed Web Server Affected Software : LiteSpeed Web Server Affected Versions: v5.1.0 and possibly below Vendor Homepage : https://www.litespeedtech.com/ Vulnerability Type : HTTP Header Injection Severity :...

RPISEC: Malware Analysis

This material was developed and used by RPISEC to teach Malware Analysis at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Fall 2015. This was a university course developed and run solely by students, primarily using the Practical Malware Analysis book by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, to teach skills i...

US Intelligence Chief Hacked by the Teen Who Hacked CIA Director

Nation's Top Spy Chief Got Hacked! The same teenage hacker who broke into the AOL email inbox of CIA Director John Brennan last October has now claimed to have broken into personal email and phone accounts of the US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Clapper was targeted by the...

Linux System Call Fuzzer: Trinity

System call fuzzers aren’t a particularly new idea. As far back as 1991, people have written apps that bomb syscall inputs with garbage data, that have had a variety of success in crashing assorted operating systems. After fixing the obvious dumb bugs however, a majority of the time these calls...