SCyTAG: Scalable Cyber-Twin for Threat-Assessment Based on Attack Graphs

Understanding the risks associated with an enterprise environment is the first step toward improving its security. Organizations employ various methods to assess and prioritize the risks identified in cyber threat intelligence CTI reports that may be relevant to their operations. Some methodologi...

Linux Implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon Targeting Organizations Worldwide

Researchers on Monday took the wraps off a newly discovered Linux and Windows re-implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon that's actively set its sights on government, telecommunications, information technology, and financial institutions in the wild. The as-yet undetected version of the penetratio...

Cobalt Strike, a penetration testing tool abused by criminals

If you were to compose a list of tools and software developed by security and privacy defenders that ended up being abused by the bad guys, then Cobalt Strike would unfortunately be near the top of the list. Maybe only Metasploit could give it a run for the first place ranking. Metasploit—probabl...

CVE-2020-6014

Check Point Endpoint Security Client for Windows (before vE83.20) is affected: loading a non-existent DLL during a Domain Name query can allow an administrator to execute code within a Check Point signed binary, with potential client termination. The vulnerability is described across CVE-2020-601...

Invoke-APT29: Adversarial Threat Emulation

MITRE recently conducted its second ATT&CK exercise in their ongoing annual series of Endpoint Security Efficacy testing and evaluation. This test focuses on assessing the behavioral capabilities of multiple endpoint security vendors against a simulated adversary, based closely around...

Check Point Gaia Operating System HTTP evasion protection failure (sk98814)

The remote host is running a version of Gaia OS which is affected by an issue where protections in the following components may fail under specific HTTP evasions : - IPS - Application Control - URL Filtering - Anti-Virus - Anti-Bot - Threat Emulation C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Check Point Gaia Operating System Threat Emulation Email Scan Bypass (sk96269)

The remote host is running a version of Gaia OS which is affected by an issue where email may bypass scanning by the Threat Emulation blade. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid105001; scriptversion"$Revision: 1.1 $"; scriptcvsdate"$Date: 2017/12/04 15:43:...

CVE-2014-8951

Unspecified vulnerability in Check Point Security Gateway R75, R76, R77, and R77.10, when UserCheck is enabled and the 1 Application Control, 2 URL Filtering, 3 DLP, 4 Threat Emulation, 5 Anti-Bot, or 6 Anti-Virus blade is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service fwk0 process...

CVE-2014-8951

Technical details (affected product, component, root cause, versions, or remediation) are not publicly provided in the supplied documents. Monitor for updates.

E-mails might not be scanned by the Threat Emulation blade in some specific scenarios depending on the e-mail client behavior

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When using Threat Emulation to scan mail content, some files encoded in MIME may be incorrectly decoded causing a 'False-Negative' result of the emulated file

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