Rapidly Growing Router Botnet Takes Advantage of 5-Year-Old Flaw

A fresh botnet is spreading across the landscape, targeting router equipment. So far, hundreds of thousands of bot endpoints have already been identified, and they’re apparently being marshaled to send out massive amounts of spam. The botnet first emerged in September, according to 360Netlab...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: mosquitto-1.5.3-1.fc29

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18764

An exploitable arbitrary memory read vulnerability exists in the MQTT packet-parsing functionality of Cesanta Mongoose 6.13. It is a heap-based buffer over-read in a parsemqtt getu16 call. A specially crafted MQTT SUBSCRIBE packet can cause an arbitrary out-of-bounds memory read potentially...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: mosquitto-1.5.3-1.fc27

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

How Office 365 learned to reel in phish

Today's post was coauthored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Jason Rogers, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. We recently reported how we measure catch rates of malicious emails for Office 365 Exchange Online Protection EOP available with any Office 365 subscripti...

Old dog, new tricks - Analysing new RTF-based campaign distributing Agent Tesla, Loki with PyREbox

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin and Holger Unterbrink with contributions from Emmanuel Tacheau. Executive Summary Cisco Talos has discovered a new malware campaign that drops the sophisticated information-stealing trojan called "Agent Tesla," and other malware such as the Loki...

Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques Report (CTNT) shows shift to business targets in Q3

Once again, it's that time of year: time for the quarterly Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques Report. Strap in your seat belts, folks, because the third quarter of 2018 was quite a wild ride. After a sleepy first two quarters, cybercriminals shook out the cobwebs and revved up...

Microsoft Windows: Service: Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winconnecteduserexperience.nasl 11387 2018-09-14 12:19:57Z emoss $ Check value for Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service DiagTrack Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Microsoft Windows: Configure Connected User Experiences and Telemetry

With this policy setting, you can forward Connected User Experience and Telemetry requests to a proxy server. If you enable this policy setting, you can specify the FQDN or IP address of the destination device within your organization SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptio...

Picking Apart Remcos Botnet-In-A-Box

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin and Holger Unterbrink with contributions from Eric Kuhla and Lilia Gonzalez Medina. Overview Cisco Talos has recently observed multiple campaigns using the Remcos remote access tool RAT that is offered for sale by a company called Breaking Security...

VMWare Player 12.5.9 Privilege Escalation / Denial Of Service

Hi @ll, the executable installer of VMware Player 12.5.9, published in January 2018, available from , is vulnerable. JFTR: VMware Player 12.5.9 is the last version which runs on 32-bit Windows, and the last to support older CPUs. Although running with administrative privileges its embedded...

WindowsSpyBlocker - Block Spying And Tracking On Windows

WindowsSpyBlocker is an application written in Go and delivered as a single executable to block spying and tracking on Windows systems. The initial approach of this application is to capture and analyze network traffic based on a set of tools. It is open for everyone and if you want to contribute...

Citrix Provisioning 7.x Data Collection

Note This Document covers Citrix Provisioning, formerly Provisioning Services,data Collection ONLY. Links Wireshark -https://www.wireshark.org Enable Promiscuous Mode – http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX139171 Citrix Telemetry Service - https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/provisioning/1912-...

Microsoft Windows: Authenticated Proxy usage (Connected User Experience and Telemetry)

This policy setting blocks the Connected User Experience and Telemetry service from automatically using an authenticated proxy to send data back to Microsoft on Windows 10. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Connected User Experience and Telemetry service will automatical...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Diffie-Hellman ciphers affects IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry (CVE-2015-4000)

Summary The Logjam Attack on TLS connections using the Diffie-Hellman DH key exchange protocol affects IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry MQXR service. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-4000 DESCRIPTION: The TLS protocol could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in WebSphere MQ Telemetry shipped with WebSphere Remote Server (CVE-2014-4263, CVE-2014-4244, CVE-2015-0410, CVE-2014-6593)

Summary WebSphere MQ Telemetry is shipped as a component of WebSphere Remote Server. Information about a security vulnerability affecting WebSphere MQ Telemetry has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details For vulnerability details, see the security bulletin Multiple...

Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry Component - Potential authentication bypass vulnerability when using the JAASConfig property (CVE-2014-6116)

Summary IBM WebSphere MQ contains a vulnerability in which authentication is bypassed by MQTT clients with the "JAASConfig" configuration property set. Vulnerability Details CVE ID: CVE-2014-6116 IBM WebSphere MQ contains a vulnerability in which authentication is bypassed by MQTT clients with th...

MQTT Denial of Service Vulnerability

MQTT is an open source MQTT protocol client for node.js and browsers written in JavaScript . A denial of service vulnerability exists in MQTT versions prior to 3.4.6 and 4.0.x prior to 4.0.5. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause an application crash with the help of specially craft...

DARKSURGEON - A Windows Packer Project To Empower Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Malware Analysis, And Network Defense

DARKSURGEON is a Windows packer project to empower incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense. DARKSURGEON has three stated goals: Accelerate incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense with a preconfigured Windows 10 environment...

From the ground up to the cloud: Microsoft’s Intelligent Security supporting CISOs’ cloud transformation

Its no secret that Microsoft has embraced the cloud in a big wayfrom enterprise solutions like Microsoft Azure to Office 365 and Windows. But a recent research report by Forrester focuses on an equally important shift in our approach to securityintegrating workforce and cloud security in ways tha...