Malware Unleashed: Public Sector Hit in Sudden Surge, Reveals New Report

The just-released BlackBerry Global Threat Intelligence Report reveals a 40% increase in cyberattacks against government and public service organizations versus the previous quarter. This includes public transit, utilities, schools, and other government services we rely on daily. With limited...

CVE-2023-22843

An authenticated attacker with administrative access to the web management interface can inject malicious JavaScript code inside the definition of a Threat Intelligence rule, that will be stored and can later be executed by another legitimate user viewing the details of such a rule. Via stored...

CVE-2023-22843

An authenticated attacker with administrative access to the web management interface can inject malicious JavaScript code inside the definition of a Threat Intelligence rule, that will be stored and can later be executed by another legitimate user viewing the details of such a rule. Via stored...

Input validation

An authenticated attacker with administrative access to the appliance can inject malicious JavaScript code inside the definition of a Threat Intelligence rule, that will later be executed by another legitimate user viewing the details of such a rule. An attacker may be able to perform unauthorize...

CVE-2023-22843 Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Threat Intelligence rules in Guardian/CMC before 22.6.2

An authenticated attacker with administrative access to the web management interface can inject malicious JavaScript code inside the definition of a Threat Intelligence rule, that will be stored and can later be executed by another legitimate user viewing the details of such a rule. Via stored...

CVE-2023-22843

CVE-2023-22843 is a stored XSS vulnerability in Nozomi Guardian/CMC where an authenticated administrator can inject JavaScript into Threat Intelligence rule definitions (yara content; limited HTML for packet/STYX), which then executes in other users’ sessions. Impact includes unauthorized actions...

CVE-2023-22843 Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Threat Intelligence rules in Guardian/CMC before 22.6.2

An authenticated attacker with administrative access to the web management interface can inject malicious JavaScript code inside the definition of a Threat Intelligence rule, that will be stored and can later be executed by another legitimate user viewing the details of such a rule. Via stored...

Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Threat Intelligence rules in Guardian/CMC before 22.6.2

Summary An authenticated attacker with administrative access to the web management interface can inject malicious JavaScript code inside the definition of a Threat Intelligence rule, that will be stored and can later be executed by another legitimate user viewing the details of such a rule. Impac...

AiCEF - An AI-assisted cyber exercise content generation framework using named entity recognition

AiCEF is a tool implementing the accompanying framework 1 in order to harness the intelligence that is available from online resources, as well as threat groups' activities, arsenal eg. MITRE, to create relevant and timely cybersecurity exercise content. This way, we abstract the events from the...

Resilient Security Requires Mature Cyber Threat Intelligence Capabilities

Resilient Security Requires Mature Cyber Threat Intelligence Capabilities By Trellix Advanced Research Center · August 5, 2023 Threat intelligence and the ability to add context to each technology environment to global threats has never been more important to the role of the CISO, or to the board...

Global ransomware attacks at an all-time high, shows latest 2023 State of Ransomware report

Ransomware attacks have shown no signs of slowing down in 2023. A new report from the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team shows 1,900 total ransomware attacks within just four countries--the US, Germany, France, and the UK--in one year. The findings, compiled together in the 2023 State of...

Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard previously tracked as NOBELIUM. This latest attack, combined with past activit...

How to connect with Microsoft Security at Black Hat USA 2023

Now in its twenty-sixth year, Black Hat USA takes place August 5 to 10, 2023, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, bringing together security professionals for the latest in information security research, development, and trends. Microsoft Security is pleased to have a presence at Black Hat, wit...

Decoy Dog: New Breed of Malware Posing Serious Threats to Enterprise Networks

A deeper analysis of a recently discovered malware called Decoy Dog has revealed that it's a significant upgrade over the Pupy RAT, an open-source remote access trojan it's modeled on. "Decoy Dog has a full suite of powerful, previously unknown capabilities – including the ability to move victims...

Microsoft validation error allowed state actor to access user email of government agencies and others

Microsoft is getting criticized for the way in which it handled a serious security incident that allowed a suspected Chinese espionage group to access user email from approximately 25 organizations, including government agencies and related consumer accounts in the public cloud. The attacks were...

Implementing an ISO-compliant threat intelligence program

Implementing a threat intelligence program that meets the definition of threat intelligence control as described in ISO/IEC 27002:2022 -- a set of standards set forth by the International Organization for Standardization -- is not onerous. The ISO/IEC 27002 standard describes a non-exhaustive lis...

Interesting Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in User Registration WordPress Plugin

On June 19, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified and began the responsible disclosure process for an Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in WPEverest’s User Registration plugin, which is actively installed on more than 60,000 WordPress websites. This vulnerability makes it...

Dissecting a Clever Malware Sample for Optimized Detection and Protection

As part of our product lineup, we offer security monitoring and malware removal services to our Wordfence Care and Response customers. In case of a security incident, our incident response team will investigate the root cause, find and remove malware from your site, and help with other...

How to Apply MITRE ATT&CK to Your Organization

Discover all the ways MITRE ATT&CK can help you defend your organization. Build your security strategy and policies by making the most of this important framework. What is the MITRE ATT&CK Framework? MITRE ATT&CK Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge is a widely adopted framework...

Open-Source Projects Use the Wordfence Vulnerability Data Feed API and You Can Too!

Prior to joining the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, I spent several years as a vulnerability analyst, responsible for collecting, analyzing, and curating every publicly disclosed vulnerability. This meant collecting vulnerability information from almost a hundred different, disparate sources...