Stubborn Malware Targets QNAP NAS Hardware Specifically

UPDATE Top-selling network attached storage devices NAS made by QNAP Systems are being singled out by attackers, who have crafted malware specifically designed for the vendor’s hardware. Researchers at the Finland’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-FI reported the targeted attacks late last...

RITA - Real Intelligence Threat Analytics

RITA is an open source framework for network traffic analysis. The framework ingests Bro/Zeek Logs in TSV format, and currently supports the following major features: Beaconing Detection : Search for signs of beaconing behavior in and out of your network DNS Tunneling Detection Search for signs o...

Malcolm - A Powerful, Easily Deployable Network Traffic Analysis Tool Suite For Full Packet Capture Artifacts (PCAP Files) And Zeek Logs

Malcolm is a powerful network traffic analysis tool suite designed with the following goals in mind: Easy to use – Malcolm accepts network traffic data in the form of full packet capture PCAP files and Zeek formerly Bro logs. These artifacts can be uploaded via a simple browser-based interface or...

Quarantyne - Modern Web Firewall: Stop Account Takeovers, Weak Passwords, Cloud IPs, DoS Attacks, Disposable Emails

Automated web security made simple Quarantyne is a reverse-proxy that protects web applications and APIs from fraudulent behavior, misuse, bots and cyber-attacks in real-time. Requirements Java 8 Presentation Quarantyne is a reverse-proxy written in java. It fronts a web application or API and...

Mother's Day Online Shoppers Were Active, and So Were Threat Actors

Mother's Day is a major online shopping event that attracts both shoppers as well as threat actors. Earlier in the year, we reported on the United Kingdom's version, called Mothering Sunday. An eMarketer spending forecast predicted that in the United States, retail gift spending would increase,...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Wireshark, previously known as Ethereal, is a network protocol analyzer. It is used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network. Two flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network or opened a malicious dump file, it could crash or, possibly,...

People Spent More Time with Their Mom this Mother's Day in the U.K.

The first major peak traffic event for online shopping in the United Kingdom is Mother's Day, held this year on Sunday, March 31. As we did during peak holiday traffic events last year, we tabulated and analyzed aggregate statistics from global online retail traffic that touched nearly 100 retail...

Cisco IOS XE ETA Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco IOS XE is a modular operating system based on the Linux kernel. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analysis ETA feature of Cisco IOS XE, which arises from a logic error in the program when processing malformed incoming packets, and can be exploited by a...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1729-1] wireshark security update

Package : wireshark Version : 1.12.1+g01b65bf-4+deb8u18 CVE ID : CVE-2017-9344 CVE-2017-9349 CVE-2019-9209 Several vulnerabilities have been found in wireshark, a network traffic analyzer. CVE-2019-9209: Preventing the crash of the ASN.1 BER and related dissectors by avoiding a buffer overflow...

IoT-Home-Guard - A Tool For Malicious Behavior Detection In IoT Devices

IoT-Home-Guard is a project to help people discover malware in smart home devices. For users the project can help to detect compromised smart home devices. For security researchers it is also useful in network analysis and malicious hehaviors detection. In July 2018 we had completed the first...

Hacking the GCHQ Backdoor

Last week, I evaluated the security of a recent GCHQ backdoor proposal for communications systems. Furthering the debate, Nate Cardozo and Seth Schoen of EFF explain how this sort of backdoor can be detected: In fact, we think when the ghost feature is active­ -- silently inserting a secret...

A Framework for Secure and Scalable Network Traffic Analysis: Netcap

The Netcap NETwork CAPture framework efficiently converts a stream of network packets into highly accessible type-safe structured data that represent specific protocols or custom abstractions. These audit records can be stored on disk or exchanged over the network, and are well suited as a data...

PA Toolkit - A Collection Of Traffic Analysis Plugins Focused On Security

PA Toolkit is a collection of traffic analysis plugins to extend the functionality of Wireshark from a micro-analysis tool and protocol dissector to the macro analyzer and threat hunter. PA Toolkit contains plugins both dissectors and taps covering various scenarios for multiple protocols,...

Mobile Shopping Growth Accelerates During Diwali

Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights, celebrated every autumn in October or November. According to Redseer Consulting, the sales volume during the festival usually accounts for about 35%-40% of the annual sales of e-commerce in India; for 2018 Redseer predicts $2.5 to $3 billion gross merchandi...

Information to Keep Handy Before Troubleshooting NetScaler SD-WAN Issues

Expedite the troubleshooting process by having the following information hand: Topology/Flow diagram All traffic passing through NetScaler SD-WAN or not Links with variable bandwidth Bandwidth offered by ISP Bandwidth observed by using Iperf Bandwidth configured on the NetScaler SD-WAN Links Any...

WindowsSpyBlocker - Block Spying And Tracking On Windows

WindowsSpyBlocker is an application written in Go and delivered as a single executable to block spying and tracking on Windows systems. The initial approach of this application is to capture and analyze network traffic based on a set of tools. It is open for everyone and if you want to contribute...

Traffic Analysis of the LTE Mobile Standard

Interesting research in using traffic analysis to learn things about encrypted traffic. It's hard to know how critical these vulnerabilities are. They're very hard to close without wasting a huge amount of bandwidth. The active attacks are more interesting. EDITED TO ADD 7/3: More information. I...

2018 Cyberthreat Defense Report: Where IT Security Is Going

What keeps you awake at night? We asked IT security professionals the same question and found that these issues are top of mind: malware and spear phishing, securing mobile devices, employee security awareness and new technologies that detect threats capable of bypassing traditional signature-bas...

Detecting Drone Surveillance with Traffic Analysis

This is clever: Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel have built a proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones that demonstrates a clever, if not exactly simple, way to determine whether a certain person or object is under aerial surveillance. They fir...

Korea In The Crosshairs

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres and with contributions from Jungsoo An. A one year review of campaigns performed by an actor with multiple campaigns mainly linked to South Korean targets. Executive Summary This article exposes the malicious activities of Group 123...