How Next-Generation Firewall Platforms Help Protect Your Perimeter at Each Stage of the Cyber Kill Chain*

Whether you need to upgrade your firewalls on-premise or in the cloud, next-generation firewalls NGFWs can significantly reduce the risks associated with the modern threat landscape. Since attacks have evolved using techniques such as encryption, polymorphism, etc., firewalls have also evolved to...

Open Source Threat Intelligence Gathering & Processing Framework: GOSINT

The GOSINT framework is a project used for collecting, processing, and exporting high quality indicators of compromise IOCs. GOSINT allows a security analyst to collect and standardize structured and unstructured threat intelligence. Applying threat intelligence to security operations enriches...

MISP cross-site scripting vulnerability (CNVD-2017-36544)

MISP is a suite of open source software solutions for collecting, storing, distributing and sharing cybersecurity metrics and threats cybersecurity event analysis and malware analysis. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the 'sharingGroupPopulateOrganisations' function in the...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of November 6, 2017

I started a 14-day detox this week that eliminates common food allergens and hormones. It’s going to be two weeks of no fun, but it’s good to give your body a little reset. Plus, I’ll be done just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Eliminating toxins from your body can be compared to eliminati...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 30, 2017

Competition is inherent in our DNA. At a basic level, we compete for things like water and food. We also take it up a level and compete for wealth, fame and power. Some compete to be the best in sports, like my Houston Astros winning the 2017 World Series, and others compete to be the best in the...

Poisoning the Well: Banking Trojan Targets Google Search Results

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Earl Carter and Emmanuel Tacheau.SummaryIt has become common for users to use Google to find information that they do not know. In a quick Google search you can find practically anything you need to know. Links returned by a Google search, however,...

Maximize security insights by integrating threat intelligence data from Akamai with your SIEM

Since 2005, when Gartner coined the term, SIEM Security Information and Event Management solutions have grown in importance for the security industry. SIEM solutions provide a centralized view to easily access and analyze security information from multiple sources, and then prioritize mitigation...

Fast Flux Botnet: Research Results

Just like that, another Akamai Edge has come and gone. If you were able to join us this year, I hope you had a chance to stop by my presentation on Threat Intelligence Insights: An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Botnet. In short, Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various type...

IntRec-Pack - Intelligence and Reconnaissance Package/Bundle installer

Intelligence and Reconnaissance Package/Bundle installer. IntRec-Pack is a Bash script designed to download, install and deploy several quality OSINT, Recon and Threat Intelligence tools. Due to the fact it manages the installation of the various dependencies related to these programs as well it...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 9, 2017

Even though “Patch Tuesday” isn’t supposed to exist anymore, here I am blogging about it. As I looked at the October updates from Microsoft, the usual suspects were there. But this month was a little different. We usually see critical vulnerabilities on the browser side, but Microsoft Office is i...

Inside the CCleaner Backdoor Attack

MADRID—As the investigation continues into the backdoor planted inside CCleaner, two members of parent company Avast’s threat intelligence team said today the desktop and cloud versions of the popular software contained different payloads. The revelation was made during a talk at Virus Bulletin...

A week in security (September 25 – October 01)

Recently, we talked about the hacking incident at Deloitte, one of the 'big four' global accounting firms. It was reported that client email addresses, usernames, and passwords were exposed. This also brought to light weaknesses in their policies and lack of threat intelligence to recover leaked...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of September 25, 2017

A couple of years back, I remember working at a tradeshow booth and giving a demo to someone who was interested in our solution. He said, “Your solution is great, but I need something that will not let anyone from the outside in my network and I need something that will not let my employees do...

Deloitte breached by hackers for months

On September 25, 2017, Deloitte announced that they detected a breach of the firm’s global email server via a poorly secured admin email in March of this year. Further, the attackers most likely had control of the server since November of 2016. Deloitte’s initial statement indicated that only six...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of September 18, 2017

The Morton Salt slogan “When it rains it pours” refers to its free flowing salt with a pouring spot and is a variation of the proverb “It never rains but it pours.” Unfortunately, Mother Nature has taken the proverb literally. This has been a devastating hurricane season for the United States and...

Insights into Iranian Cyber Espionage: APT33 Targets Aerospace and Energy Sectors and has Ties to Destructive Malware

When discussing suspected Middle Eastern hacker groups with destructive capabilities, many automatically think of the suspected Iranian group that previously used SHAMOON – aka Disttrack – to target organizations in the Persian Gulf. However, over the past few years, we have been tracking a...

Insights into Iranian Cyber Espionage: APT33 Targets Aerospace and Energy Sectors and has Ties to Destructive Malware

When discussing suspected Middle Eastern hacker groups with destructive capabilities, many automatically think of the suspected Iranian group that previously used SHAMOON – aka Disttrack – to target organizations in the Persian Gulf. However, over the past few years, we have been tracking a...

MISP Override Access Vulnerability

MISP is a suite of open source software solutions for collecting, storing, distributing and sharing cybersecurity metrics and threats cybersecurity event analysis and malware analysis. A security vulnerability exists in versions of MISP prior to 2.4.80. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability t...

Tulpar - Web Vulnerability Scanner

Tulpar is a open source web vulnerability scanner for written to make web penetration testing automated. Features Sql Injection GET Method XSS GET Method Crawl E-mail Disclosure Credit Card Disclosure Whois Command Injection GET Method Directory Traversal GET Method File Include GET Method Server...

TIH: The Open Source Threat Intelligence Hunter

PenTestIT RSS Feed The primary purpose of threat intelligence is to help you understand the risks of threats, such as zero-days, advanced persistent threats APTs and exploits. But how do you do that on a large scale in an automated manner? You now have a solution in TIH, the Threat Intelligence...