Breaking down NOBELIUM’s latest early-stage toolset

As we reported in earlier blog posts, the threat actor NOBELIUM recently intensified an email-based attack that it has been operating and evolving since early 2021. We continue to monitor this active attack and intend to post additional details as they become available. In this blog, we highlight...

Breaking down NOBELIUM’s latest early-stage toolset

As we reported in earlier blog posts, the threat actor NOBELIUM recently intensified an email-based attack that it has been operating and evolving since early 2021. We continue to monitor this active attack and intend to post additional details as they become available. In this blog, we highlight...

Nobelium Phishing Campaign Poses as USAID

The cybercriminal group behind the notorious SolarWinds attack is at it again with a sophisticated mass email campaign aimed at delivering malicious URLs with payloads enabling network persistence so the actors can conduct further nefarious activities. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC...

Reinforce Defense with File Reputation and Trusted Source Intelligence in Qualys FIM

Monitoring change events in the file system is both a crucial aspect of security and a critical compliance requirement. A file integrity monitoring tool functions as an essential layer of defense to identify illicit activities across critical system files and registries, diagnose changes, and sen...

Building SIEM for Today’s Threat Landscape

It’s easy to see how the changing security landscape has shaped the evolution of the security information and event management SIEM practice area — and how it continues to. But architecting an effective SIEM approach requires a well-thought-out strategy. A combination of security information...

Talos is hiring for several positions — Join our world-class security organization

Cisco Talos continues to build an elite threat intelligence and research group, and we are looking for driven, innovative and diverse security enthusiasts to join us. We are currently hiring for several positions, including multiple security engineer roles and a senior vulnerability... This is on...

What a Year It’s Been: RSA 2021 Embraces ‘Resilience’

Clearly, the months since the world shut down in March of 2020 fomented a radical shift in how people work and live, and it’s brought a range of crises and challenges to bear across the spectrum of our lives. These profound changes and experiences were also felt in cybersecurity, bringing...

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in the 2021 Enterprise Email Security Wave

Today, organizations face an evolving threat landscape and an exponentially increasing attack surface. Email represents the primary attack vector for cybercrime, and security teams are in search of efficient and cost-effective means to minimize the risk of these threats and the impact they have o...

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in the 2021 Enterprise Email Security Wave

Today, organizations face an evolving threat landscape and an exponentially increasing attack surface. Email represents the primary attack vector for cybercrime, and security teams are in search of efficient and cost-effective means to minimize the risk of these threats and the impact they have o...

Ghostwriter Update: Cyber Espionage Group UNC1151 Likely Conducts Ghostwriter Influence Activity

In July 2020, Mandiant Threat Intelligence released a public report detailing an ongoing influence campaign we named “Ghostwriter.” Ghostwriter is a cyber-enabled influence campaign which primarily targets audiences in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland and promotes narratives critical of the North...

Vulnerabilities fixed in McAfee Endpoint Security

Due to cleartext transfer of sensitive information between McAfee Endpoint Security ENS for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update and McAfee Global Threat Intelligence GTI servers that use DNS use, a remote attacker can view ENS requests and responses from GTI via DNS. McAfee has released...

CVE-2020-7308

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information between McAfee Endpoint Security ENS for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update and McAfee Global Threat Intelligence GTI servers using DNS allows a remote attacker to view the requests from ENS and responses from GTI over DNS. By gaining...

Mcafee McAfee Endpoint Security 安全漏洞

Mcafee McAfee Endpoint Security ENS is a set of U.S. McAfee Mcafee company to provide intelligent collaboration and advanced threat defense framework. The framework supports control of the entire threat defense lifecycle for real-time communications and actionable threat forensics, among other...

PT-2021-12645 · Mcafee · Mcafee Endpoint Security (Ens) For Windows +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: McAfee Endpoint Security ENS for Windows versions prior to 10.7.0 February 2021 Update Description: The issue allows a remote attacker to view requests from ENS and responses from McAfee Global Threat Intelligence GTI servers over DNS. This i...

MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 5: Multiple Threat Detection Methodologies, Including Deep Attacker Behavior Analysis

This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR service providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” Let’s start with an analogy: Say you’re a fisherman out on a mission to specifically catch tuna. You thr...

Automating threat actor tracking: Understanding attacker behavior for intelligence and contextual alerting

As seen in recent sophisticated cyberattacks, especially human-operated campaigns, it’s critical to not only detect an attack as early as possible but also to rapidly determine the scope of the compromise and predict how it will progress. How an attack proceeds depends on the attacker’s goals and...

The Origins of the Names TaoSecurity and the Unit Formerly Known as TAO

What are the origins of the names TaoSecurity and the unit formerly known as TAO? Introduction I've been reading Nicole Perlroth's new book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends. Her discussion of the group formerly known as Tailored Access Operations, or TAO, reminded me of a controversy that...

Analyzing attacks taking advantage of the Exchange Server vulnerabilities

Microsoft continues to monitor and investigate attacks exploiting the recent on-premises Exchange Server vulnerabilities. These attacks are now performed by multiple threat actors ranging from financially motivated cybercriminals to state-sponsored groups. To help customers who are not able to...

Women in Security Part 5: Meet Lavine Oluoch, Threat Analyst

This post is part of our Women’s History Month series - follow along with us on Twitter @VMwareCarbonBlack In continued celebration of Women’s History Month, we are excited to bring you our next featured security expert as a part of our six-part Women in Security series. Throughout March, we are...

Strafer - A Tool To Detect Potential Infections In Elasticsearch Instances

Elasticsearch infections are rising exponentially. The adversaries are exploiting open and exposed Elasticsearch interfaces to trigger infections in the cloud and non-cloud deployments. During this talk, we will release a tool named "STRAFER" to detect potential infections in the Elasticsearch...