Partner Perspectives: Endpoint Security Analytics with Sumo Logic and Carbon Black

As the threat landscape continues to expand, having end-to-end visibility across your modern application stack and cloud infrastructures is crucial. Customers cannot afford to have blind spots in their environment; and that includes data being ingested from third-party tools. With the industry...

Modern Bank Heists: The Bank Robbery Shifts to Cyberspace

The financial sector has long been the target of some of the world’s greatest guilds of thieves, none perhaps more popular than the Dillinger gangs of the 1930s. In the second annual “Modern Bank Heists” report, Carbon Black collaborated with Optiv to survey CISOs at some of the world’s largest...

Threat Roundup for Feb. 22 to March 1

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 22 and March 01. 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 characteristic...

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The stable channel has been updated to 72.0.3626.121 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Security Fixes and Rewards Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain...

Combing Through Brushaloader Amid Massive Detection Uptick

Nick Biasini and Edmund Brumaghin authored this blog post with contributions from Matthew Molyett. Executive Summary Over the past several months, Cisco Talos has been monitoring various malware distribution campaigns leveraging the malware loader Brushaloader to deliver malware payloads to...

Threat Roundup for Feb. 1 to Feb. 8

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 01 and Feb. 08. 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 Dec. 14 to Dec. 21

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Dec. 14 and Dec. 21. 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...

Improper access control

A vulnerability in the system scanning component of Cisco Immunet and Cisco Advanced Malware Protection AMP for Endpoints running on Microsoft Windows could allow a local attacker to disable the scanning functionality of the product. This could allow executable files to be launched on the system...

CVE-2018-15437 Cisco Immunet and Cisco AMP for Endpoints System Scan Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the system scanning component of Cisco Immunet and Cisco Advanced Malware Protection AMP for Endpoints running on Microsoft Windows could allow a local attacker to disable the scanning functionality of the product. This could allow executable files to be launched on the system...

Small Business Benefits of Moving to the Cloud: Effective Security

When you’re selecting an endpoint security platform for your small business, you want it to work — and work well. However, less than one third of organizations believe that traditional AV has the power to stop the attacks that they are seeing.1 With fileless malware attacks and ransomware on the...

Threat Roundup for August 31 to September 7

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed this week — covering the dates between Aug. 31 and Sept. 7. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, we will summarize the threats we’ve observed b...

Threat Analysis: Recent Attack Technique Leveraging cmd.exe and PowerShell Demonstrates How Attackers Are Using Trusted Microsoft Applications for Malicious Behavior

An attack leveraging cmd.exe and PowerShell was recently investigated by Cb ThreatSight analysts. Our initial investigation discovered that a batch file was executed on the targeted system. This batch file then invoked PowerShell with a base64 encoded command. Decoding the command revealed a seri...

Drupal, Phishing and A New Cryptomining Botnet

It’s a well-known fact that security solutions must quickly adapt to new attack methods. There are several ways to achieve this goal, regularly applying security patches and updates, relying on threat intelligence and more. At Imperva, we use pattern anomaly detection as one of the tools to...

Carbon Black TAU Threat Analysis: Emotet Banking Trojan Leverages MS Office Word Docs, PowerShell to Deliver Malware

Emotet is a family of banking malware, which has been around since at least 2014. Attackers continue to leverage variants of Emotet and are becoming increasingly shrewd in the techniques they employ to deliver the malware onto an infected system. In the spring of 2018 Carbon Black's Threat Analys...

Five Ways Imperva Attack Analytics Helps You Cut Through the Event Noise

The maddening volume of events security teams have to deal with each day is growing at an exponential pace, making it increasingly difficult to effectively analyze and process credible threats. As more organizations move to cloud-based solutions, applications now reside at multiple locations – on...

Threat Analysis: Recent Attack Technique Attempts to Bypass Whitelisting by Leveraging MS Office Document Macros, MSBuild, Certutil

Carbon Black continues to monitor and track evolving techniques that attackers leverage. Over the last several years, there has been an increase in attackers leveraging open source frameworks and proof of concept POC techniques that are released publically by researchers. A document was recently...

Threat Analysis: ROKRAT Malware

ROKRAT also referred to as DOGcall is a family of malware that has been used by attackers originating from North Korea. The family continues to evolve and adopt techniques from other families also used by the same attack group. The ROKRAT core payload is typically deployed by a loader, which has...

Recline on the Qualys Couch: Examining Patching Behavior

In a perfect world, organizations would patch vulnerabilities immediately after they’re disclosed, preemptively blocking exploits and dodging most cyber attacks. Of course, reality is far from that hypothetically ideal state. Organizations often leave critical vulnerabilities unpatched for months...

Threat Round Up for Feb 9 - Feb 16

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

Subway Elevators and Movie-Plot Threats

Local residents are opposing adding an elevator to a subway station because terrorists might use it to detonate a bomb. No, really. There's no actual threat analysis, only fear: "The idea that people can then ride in on the subway with a bomb or whatever and come straight up in an elevator is awf...