Misunderstanding APT Indicators of Compromise

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributors are Dave Dittrich and Katherine Carpenter. Reports of APT activities detail compromises spanning multiple organizations, sectors, industry...

TREASUREHUNT: A Custom POS Malware Tool

Since early 2015, FireEye Threat Intelligence has observed the significant growth of point-of-sale POS malware families in underground cyber crime forums. POS malware refers to malicious software that extracts payment card information from memory and usually uploads that data to a command and...

Automate Incident Handling Process : IntelMQ

IntelMQ is a solution for CERTs for collecting and processing security feeds, pastebins, tweets and log files using a message queuing protocol. It’s a community driven initiative called IHAP Incident Handling Automation Project which was conceptually designed by European CERTs during several...

Critical Flaws Found in NETGEAR Network Management System

Netgear, one of the most popular router manufacturers, has been vulnerable to two different flaws that could allow hackers to compromise your corporate network and connected devices. Reported critical vulnerabilities reside in the Netgear's ProSafe NMS300 Model Network Management System – a...

AlienVault Unified Security Management: Real-Time Threat Detection Starting on Day 1

As organizations expand their IT infrastructure to match their evolving business models and meet changing regulatory requirements, they often find that their networks have become extremely complex and challenging to manage. A primary concern for many IT teams is detecting threats in the mountain ...

LATENTBOT: Trace Me If You Can

FireEye Labs recently uncovered LATENTBOT, a new, highly obfuscated BOT that has been in the wild since mid-2013. It has managed to leave hardly any traces on the Internet, is capable of watching its victims without ever being noticed, and can even corrupt a hard disk, thus making a PC useless...

More than one! Dell and a root certificate vulnerability be exploited by hackers-exploit-warning-the black bar safety net

This month 2 5, we discussed Dell eDellRoot root certificate vulnerability, the same problem again today is exposed: in some Dell system, found a second self-signed root certificate DSDTestProvider, and also comes with a private key. ! This morning, the micro-step online security analysis of clou...

ModPOS: Highly-Sophisticated, Stealthy Malware Targeting US POS Systems with High Likelihood of Broader Campaigns

Today, iSIGHT Partners is sharing details about a highly sophisticated criminal malware framework that has been used to target point-of-sale POS systems at US-based retailers. We believe this very hard to detect malware is likely being used in broader campaigns and are disclosing details to help...

Flash is too dangerous, the report said the hack attack front 1 0 vulnerabilities Flash representing 8-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Hacking tools the use of Pre 1 0 vulnerabilities in Flash accounted for 8 According to technology news site Network World reports that cyber Threat Intelligence research firm, Recorded Future issued the latest report shows that in the hacking toolEKthe use of the top 1 0 largest vulnerability,...

What is Threat Intelligence and How It Helps to Identify Security Threats

Simply put, threat intelligence is knowledge that helps you identify security threats and make informed decisions. Threat intelligence can help you solve the following problems: How do I keep up to date on the overwhelming amount of information on security threats…including bad actors, methods,...

The Artillery Project

Artillery is a combination of a honeypot, monitoring tool, and alerting system. Eventually this will evolve into a hardening monitoring platform as well to detect insecure configurations from nix systems. It’s relatively simple, run ./setup.py and hit yes, this will install Artillery in...

How to Protect Yourself against XcodeGhost like iOS Malware Attacks

Recently, Chinese iOS developers have discovered a new OS X and iOS malware dubbed XcodeGhost that has appeared in malicious versions of Xcode, Apple’s official toolkit for developing iOS and OS X apps. The hack of Apple’s Xcode involves infecting the compiler with malware and then passing that...

Magmi Magento Zero Day Under Attack

A zero-day in a popular plugin for the Magento ecommerce platform is under attack. Attackers are using a few IP addresses to scan for vulnerable versions of Magmi, which is an open source database client that imports data into Magento. “We’ve seen a couple hundred requests for this specific attac...

McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange Secondary Server Information Disclosure Vulnerability

McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange TIE the United States McAfee McAfee company's set of unified threat defense system to provide security recovery and infection defense capabilities. The system provides comprehensive threat intelligence awareness, instant understanding of the trails of advanced...

Microsoft repair SharePoint 2 0 1 3 XSS vulnerabilities-the vulnerabilities and early warning-the black bar safety net

SharePoint is the Microsoft Office Suite in a tool for individuals and companies to create a portal page. The vulnerabilityCVE-2 0 1 5-2 5 2 2by FortiNet's FortiGuard Labs security researchers discovered the vulnerability affects SharePoint 2 0 1 3 15.0.4571.1502 early version. SharePoint is a...

CVE-2015-7238

The Secondary server in Threat Intelligence Exchange TIE before 1.2.0 uses weak permissions for unspecified 1 configuration files and 2 installation logs, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the files...

Information disclosure

The Secondary server in Threat Intelligence Exchange TIE before 1.2.0 uses weak permissions for unspecified 1 configuration files and 2 installation logs, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the files...

CVE-2015-7238

The CVE-2015-7238 issue concerns McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange (TIE) Secondary Server prior to 1.2.0, where weak permissions on configuration files and installation logs allow a local user to read files and obtain sensitive information. The vulnerability is a local information-disclosure fl...

Hook Analyser 3.2 - Malware Analysis Tool

Hook Analyser is a freeware application which allows an investigator/analyst to perform “static & run-time / dynamic” analysis of suspicious applications, also gather analyse & co-related threat intelligence related information or data from various open sources on the Internet. Essentially it’s a...

Stakeholders Argue Against Restrictive Wassennaar Proposal

The commenting period regarding the Wassenaar Arrangement expired on Monday but the echo chamber around the largely maligned proposal continues to reverberate. Several stakeholders implicated in the proposal added their voices to that chamber on Friday morning, urging the government to revise...