How we Developed a Unified Binary Store (UBS): Part 1

Like most technology companies, VMware Carbon Black has a combination of acquired and built technologies that all utilize their own data stores. As our products have evolved to include the benefits of a centralized cloud offering, our data stores needed to similarly evolve. A new goal was formed:...

Stolen emails reflect Emotet's organic growth

By Jaeson Schultz Introduction Emotet has a penchant for stealing a victim's email, then impersonating that victim and sending copies of itself in reply. The malicious emails are delivered through a network of stolen outbound SMTP accounts. This relatively simple email-man-in-the-middle social...

SAIGON, the Mysterious Ursnif Fork

Ursnif aka Gozi/Gozi-ISFB is one of the oldest banking malware families still in active distribution. While the first major version of Ursnif was identified in 2006, several subsequent versions have been released in large part due source code leaks. FireEye reported on a previously unidentified...

Beers with Talos Ep. #69: 2019 Threat Recap - RATs, Turtles, and Worms, Oh My!

By Mitch Neff. Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 69 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Dec. 20, 2019 In a shorter year-end EP, we take both a look back and a look forward. It seems...

Combining AI and Playbooks to Predict Cyberattacks

When organizations invest in AI, they are not only able to automate menial tasks like patching, but they can also create an automated system that looks for and discovers attacks, not only after the fact, but even before they occur. This predictive capability becomes increasingly necessary as...

McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange Server Authorization Issues Vulnerability

McAfee TIE Server is a network threat defense server from the U.S. company McAfee McAfee. An authorization issue vulnerability exists in the API in McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange Server version 3.0.0. The vulnerability stems from a lack of authentication measures or insufficient authenticati...

Mobile threat defense and intelligence are a core part of cyber defense

The modern workplace is a mobile workplace. Today’s organizations rely on mobility to increase productivity and improve the customer experience. But the proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices has also expanded the attack surface of roughly 5 billion mobile devices in the world, man...

TheTHE - Simple, Shareable, Team-Focused And Expandable Threat Hunting Experience

TheTHE is an environment intended to help analysts and hunters over the early stages of their work in an easier, unified and quicker way. One of the major drawbacks when dealing with a hunting is the collection of information available on a high number of sources, both public and private. All thi...

EXIST - Web Application For Aggregating And Analyzing Cyber Threat Intelligence

EXIST is a web application for aggregating and analyzing CTI cyber threat intelligence. EXIST is written by the following software. Python 3.5.4 Django 1.11.22 Concept EXIST is a web application for aggregating CTI to help security operators investigate incidents based on related indicators. EXIS...

Dsiem - Security Event Correlation Engine For ELK Stack

Dsiem is a security event correlation engine for ELK stack, allowing the platform to be used as a dedicated and full-featured SIEM system. Dsiem provides OSSIM-style correlation for normalized logs/events, perform lookup/query to threat intelligence and vulnerability information sources, and...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: Tofsee Botnet

Tofsee is a botnet which has not been reported on since the following analysis in September of 2016 by the Cert Polka team and Cisco Talos. This updated campaign employs new techniques in order to aggressively send large volumes of spam emails primarily targeting the adult dating scene. This new...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: BlackRemote RAT

BlackRemote is a relatively new commodity RAT discovered in September 2019. Similar to other Remote Access Trojans, it offers typical functionality such as keylogging, remote desktop, file transfer, credential harvesting, and more. Despite the discovery of this RAT being caught early, and while t...

The FireEye Approach to Operational Technology Security

Today FireEye launches the Cyber Physical Threat Intelligence subscription, which provides cyber security professionals with unmatched context, data and actionable analysis on threats and risk to cyber physical systems. In light of this release, we thought it would be helpful to explain FireEye’s...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: Skidmap

Hijacking machine resources and using them to mine for cryptocurrency continues to be an attractive and lucrative target for threat actors. As we’ve continued to see this type of attack used, we’ve also seen more platforms being targeted. Seeing cryptocurrency mining malware targeting Linux and...

Latest Enterprise EDR Now Available on All Major Operating Systems

VMware Carbon Black is today announcing new capabilities for macOS systems protected by our cloud-native enterprise endpoint detection and response EDR solution, CB ThreatHunter. This latest release on the VMware Carbon Black Cloud further expands customizable detection, threat intelligence,...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: AsyncRAT

AsyncRAT is a Remote Access Tool RAT designed to remotely monitor and control other computers through a secure encrypted connection. It is an open source remote administration tool, however, it could also be used maliciously because it provides functionality such as keylogger, remote desktop...

CVE-2019-3641

Abuse of Authorization vulnerability in APIs exposed by TIE server in McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange Server TIE Server 3.0.0 allows remote authenticated users to modify stored reputation data via specially crafted messages...

CVE-2019-3641

Abuse of Authorization vulnerability in APIs exposed by TIE server in McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange Server TIE Server 3.0.0 allows remote authenticated users to modify stored reputation data via specially crafted messages...

CVE-2019-3641

CVE-2019-3641 affects McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange Server (TIE Server) 3.0.0, where an Abuse of Authorization in the exposed APIs allows remote authenticated users to modify stored reputation data via specially crafted messages. The root cause is an authorization/control weakness in TIE Se...

CVE-2019-3641 Exploitation of Authorization in TIE Server

Abuse of Authorization vulnerability in APIs exposed by TIE server in McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange Server TIE Server 3.0.0 allows remote authenticated users to modify stored reputation data via specially crafted messages...