Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: Tick Downloaders (Operation ENDTRADE)

Trend Micro released a white paper about Tick, a Chinese cyberespionage threat actor targeting east asian countries. The report details several new downloader malware families. VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU reviewed the malware and is providing product rules to detect and identify...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: njRAT

njRAT is a Remote Access Trojan RAT that will silently collect and steal sensitive information such as login credentials. It can also perform keylogger monitoring, remote desktop control, installing additional malicious software, and many other malicious activities on the victim’s computer. In...

Over 12,000 Google Users Hit by Government Hackers in 3rd Quarter of 2019

As part of its active efforts to protect billions of online users, Google identified and warned over 12,000 of its users who were targeted by a government-backed hacking attempt in the third quarter of this year. According to a report published by Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG, more than 90...

Over 12,000 Google Users Hit by Government Hackers in 3rd Quarter of 2019

As part of its active efforts to protect billions of online users, Google identified and warned over 12,000 of its users who were targeted by a government-backed hacking attempt in the third quarter of this year. According to a report published by Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG, more than 90...

Active C2 Discovery Using Protocol Emulation Part1 (HYDSEVEN NetWire)

Malware C2 addresses can be an important IOC to detect known threats. In order to obtain C2 information, we first need malware samples which are then analyzed dynamically or statically. However the analysis task is often times not straightforward. Increasingly anti-analysis methods are implemente...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: Ramnit Banking Trojan

Ramnit Banking Trojan was first discovered in 2010 and is still evolving and staying actively as the second rank on the top banking trojan list in October 2019 as from the source post. It may be distributing via malvertising, exploit kit, spear-phishing campaign or others method to infect on the...

Threat Roundup for November 1 to November 8

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 1 and Nov. 8. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Partner Perspectives: Stop Advanced Cyber Threats with End-to-End Protection from ThreatWarrior and Carbon Black

Today’s rapidly advancing technology and our “constantly connected” mindset have given rise to a malicious underworld of sophisticated cybercriminals and constantly-evolving cyberattacks. Understanding these new forms of attack, predicting strikes, and responding quickly is the only way to defend...

New IDA Pro plugin provides TileGX support

By Jonas Zaddach Overview Cisco Talos has a new plugin available for IDA Pro that provides a new disassembler for TileGX binaries. This tool should assist researchers in reverse-engineering threats in IDA Pro that target TileGX. We started developing this tool after the VPNFilter campaign last...

In-depth exploration found in the wild iOS exploit chain a-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Series Foreword Project Zero One of the tasks is the analysis of the 0-day vulnerability, we often partner with other companies to find security vulnerabilities and submit, the final goal is to promote the popular system architecture of the security improvements to help protect throughout end...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Winnti Malware 4.0

Winnti is a family of malware used by multiple Chinese threat actors like APT41. Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU is providing this technical analysis, YARA rules, IOCs and product rules for the research community. Behavioral Summary Winnti malware is installed manually with stolen...

Threat Roundup for August 9 to August 16

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Aug. 9 and Aug. 16. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Introducing EQR — The Need for Petabyte-Scale Real-Time Analysis

Making Fast Decisions from Lots of Data One of the most difficult things to solve for in the Security industry is scale. Security is essentially a big data problem—data that is dynamic, and variadic. You need to correlate lots of disparate data elements that contain dynamically changing parameter...

Rapid Incident Response Now Available through Cynet’s Free IR Service Providers Offering

Organizations are increasingly outsourcing incident response situations to service providers. This is taking place across the spectrum – from cyber mature companies with highly staffed SOCs, to small operations with no dedicated security personnel. This keeps the IR providers busy, putting the on...

Threat Roundup for June 21 to June 28

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 21 and June 28. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

Threat Roundup for June 7 to June 14

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 07 and June 14. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

New CB LiveOps Release Brings Recommended Queries to Users

Security & IT teams often have no reliable way to check on the current status of their endpoints across their enterprise. This forces these teams to piece together information from multiple management consoles in order to get answers about the health of their entire fleet. Even when they do have...

Evolving Threat Hunting with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework at CB Connect

Evolving Threat Hunting with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework – Join me at CB Connect San Diego! There are a number of techniques you can use to uncover security gaps leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK matrix. At CB Connect San Diego, our annual user conference June 4-5th, I will speaking on “How to Evolve Yo...

Microsoft Patches Two Win32k Bugs Under Active Attack

Microsoft released patches for two Win32k bugs actively under attack, along with fixes for four additional bugs that are publicly known, as part of its March Patch Tuesday security bulletin. The Win32k bugs are both elevation of privilege vulnerabilities, rated important, and tied to the way...

Google Chrome zero-day: Now is the time to update and restart your browser

Update 2019-03-21 A proof of concept for CVE-2019-5786 was published by Exodus Intel. In our earlier post we exercised caution before claiming we would have blocked this zero-day, but we can now say with confidence that an older version of Malwarebytes 1.12.1.122 would have mitigated this attack:...