Trellix Threat Labs Uncovers Critical Flaws in Widely Used Building Access Control System

Trellix Threat Labs Uncovers Critical Flaws in Widely Used Building Access Control System By Trellix · June 9, 2022 This story was also written by Steve Povolny and Sam Quinn. Today at the Hardwear.io Security Trainings and Conference, Trellix Threat Labs is sharing new research into...

Connected Healthcare: A Cybersecurity Battlefield We Must Win

Connected Healthcare: A Cybersecurity Battlefield We Must Win By Trellix · June 6, 2022 This blog was written by Charles McFarland We are commonly taught to prioritize the most critical, severe, or impactful tasks when trying to conquer a list of intimidating problems. Yet, how is this possible...

The Bug Report – May 2022 Edition

The Bug Report – May 2022 Edition By Trellix · June 1, 2022 This blog was written by Douglas McKee Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief Source: https://twitter.com/cyb3rops/status/1523579115152064513?s=20&t=jtGMOibQPsPviekQoWKIA Why Am I here? People often come together not only due to common interest...

Get to Know Patrick Flynn

Meet Patrick Flynn Head of Advanced Programs Group at Trellix Threat Labs By Trellix · May 24, 2022 This blog was written by Michael Alicea At Trellix, we celebrate and champion our people. This week, I sat down with Pat Flynn, Head of Advanced Programs Group for Trellix Threat Labs. His job is a...

Utilizing the Adaptive Defense Model Against Information Stealers

Trellix Global Defenders: Utilizing the Adaptive Defense Model Against Information Stealers By Taylor Mullins · May 23, 2022 Trellix is continuing to observe the continued growth in usage and general availability of Information Stealers that have the functionality to collect passwords, cookies,...

Get to Know Steve Povolny

Meet Steve Povolny Head of Advanced Threat Research for Trellix Threat Labs By Trellix · May 17, 2022 This blog was written by Michael Alicea At Trellix, we celebrate and champion our people. This week, I sat down with Steve Povolny, Head of Advanced Threat Research for Trellix Threat Labs. As he...

Five Eyes Alliance Advisory & Using Threat Intelligence

Trellix Global Defenders: Five Eyes Alliance Advisory and Using Threat Intelligence to Protect Against Future Attacks By Taylor Mullins · May 6, 2022 Evolving intelligence continues to indicate that the Russian government is exploring options to launch cyberattacks in retaliation against...

The Bug Report – April 2022 Edition

The Bug Report – April 2022 Edition By Trellix · May 4, 2022 This blog was written by Mark Bereza Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief Source: https://twitter.com/cyb3rops/status/1509290413168934918 Why Am I here? For those in my hemisphere, springtime is finally here and, like always, it promises...

Keeping A Critical Eye on IoT Devices

Keeping a Critical Eye on IoT Devices By Sam Quinn · April 21, 2022 Trellix Labs is excited to announce the beginning of a new video series which captures one of our senior vulnerability researchers work on hacking an IoT device from beginning to end. This will conclude with the releasing of a ne...

The Bug Report - March 2022 Edition

The Bug Report - March 2022 By Charles McFarland · April 6, 2022 Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief Comic from https://geek-and-poke.com/ and remains unedited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Use of this comic does not indicate endorsement by the creator. Why am I here? Welcome back the...

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware | Trellix

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware By John Fokker, Jambul Tologonov · March 31, 2022 Introduction It isn’t often the whole world gets an inside look of the business operations of a top tier cybercriminal group. Very early on in the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis the predominantly...

Detection of ‘Leave Behinds’ From Nation-State Actors

Who left the backdoor open? By Trellix · March 28, 2022 In our recent report, In the Crosshairs: Companies and Nation-State Cyber Threats, over 800 IT decision makers from around the world were interviewed on their experiences with nation-state cyber attacks. One of the questions sought to...

Nation-State Crosshairs: Australia, India & Japan

In The Nation-State Crosshairs: Australia, India & Japan By Trellix · March 28, 2022 Today Trellix and the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS released a global report, In the Crosshairs: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats, examining security professionals’ mindsets...

Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections

Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections By Taylor Mullins · March 23, 2022 Trellix is continuing to monitor the threat activity related to the LAPSUS$ threat group and their recent breaches of large organizations such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Okta. This...

Validate the Efficacy of your Endpoint Security Controls Continuously with Breach and Attack Simulations

Validate the efficacy of your Endpoint Security controls continuously with Breach and Attack Simulations By Nicolas Stricher, Trellix XDR solution Architect, EMEA and Doron RosenbergTrellix Senior Sales Engineer, Israel · March 4, 2022 Efficacy of Trellix Endpoint Security At Trellix we are proud...

The Bug Report - February 2022 Edition

The Bug Report - February 2022 By Jesse Chick · March 2, 2022 Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief Image courtesy of https://toggl.com/ Why am I here? Welcome back to the Bug Report, stubby-month edition! For those in the audience unfamiliar with our shtick, every month we compile a shortlist of the t...

Analysis and Protections for RagnarLocker Ransomware

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for RagnarLocker Ransomware By Taylor Mullins · February 28, 2022 The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a Flash Alert warning that the RagnarLocker ransomware gang has breached the networks of at least fifty-two...

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware By Taylor Mullins · February 28, 2022 BlackByte Ransomware has been in the news of late due to a successful attack against a National Football League NFL Franchise and a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory by the Federal Bureau ...

Trellix “Catmen Sanfrancisco” Capture the Flag Results!

Trellix “Catmen Sanfrancisco” Capture the Flag Results! By Trellix · February 28, 2022 This story was written by Steve Povolny. And just like that, it’s all over! Our annual Capture the Flag contest expired at 11:59pm PST, on February 25th. We wanted to take a moment to thank all of our...

Looking Over the Nation-State Actors’ Shoulders

Looking over the nation-state actors’ shoulders: Even they have a difficult day sometimes By Trellix and Marc Elias · Febraury 17, 2022 Have you ever been curious about how nation-state actors operate and what their day-to-day work looks like? This blog reveals some of these details observed base...

Trellix Global Defenders: BlackCat Ransomware as a Service - The Cat is certainly out of the bag!

Trellix Global Defenders: BlackCat Ransomware as a Service - The Cat is certainly out of the bag! By Trellix · February 8, 2022 Research Contributions and Analysis: Filippo Sitzia This story was written by Arnab Roy Threat Summary Blackcat also known as ALPHV/Noberus is a Ransomware as a Service...

The Bug Report - January 2022 Edition

The Bug Report - January 2022 By Trellix · February 2, 2022 This story was written by Kevin McGrath Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief Image courtesy of https://toggl.com/ Why am I here? Omicron is the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet, used by Donald Knuth to denote Big-O notation, represented zero...

Trellix Launches Annual CTF Competition – Catmen Sanfrancisco!

Trellix Launches Annual CTF Competition – Catmen Sanfrancisco! By Trellix · February 1, 2022 This story was written by Steve Povolny. The Advanced Threat Research team, now with Trellix, is pleased to announce the return of our second annual Capture the Flag contest featuring 12 new challenges of...

Worming your way in through IIS - CVE-2022-21907

Worming your way in through IIS - CVE-2022-21907 By Trellix · January 27, 2022 This story was written by Eion Carroll. IIS HTTP Stack History In the first patch Tuesday of 2022, Microsoft released a patch for a wormable vulnerability CVE-2022-21907 within the IIS HTTP stack, or more specifically...

Prime Minister’s Office Compromised: Details of Recent Espionage Campaign

Prime Minister’s Office Compromised: Details of Recent Espionage Campaign By Marc Elias · January 25, 2022 A special thanks to Christiaan Beek, Alexandre Mundo, Leandro Velasco and Max Kersten for malware analysis and support during this investigation. Executive Summary Our Advanced Threat Resear...

Beyond Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities – A Security Extinction and Future of Exploitation

Beyond Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities – A Security Extinction and Future of Exploitation By Chintan Shah · January 24, 2022 Modern exploitation techniques have changed how adversaries execute their attack strategies and how defenders analyze paths from vulnerability to exploitation. Over the...

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update By Taylor Mullins, Mo Cashman and Raj Samani · January 20, 2022 Recent news reports of a “ransomware” campaign targeting Ukraine has resulted in significant press coverage regarding not only...

Log4J and The Memory That Knew Too Much

Log4J and The Memory That Knew Too Much By Trellix · January 19, 2022 By Guilherme Venere, Ismael Valenzuela, Carlos Diaz, Cesar Vargas, Leandro Costantino, Juan Olle, Jose Luis Sanchez Martinez, AC3 Team Collaborators: Steve Povolny, Douglas McKee, Mark Bereza, Frederick House, Dileep Kumar...

Log4shell Vulnerability is the Coal in Our Stocking for 2021

Log4Shell Vulnerability is the Coal in our Stocking for 2021 By Steve Povolny and Douglas McKee · January 19, 2022 Overview On December 9, a vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 was released on Twitter along with a PoC on GitHub for the Apache Log4j logging library. The bug was originally disclosed to...

The Bug Report - December 2021 Edition

The Bug Report - December 2021 By Philippe Laulheret · January 19, 2022 Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief Why am I here? If you’re reading these words, CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve made it to 2022! And even better, you found your way to ATR’s monthly security digest where we discuss our favorite...

The Bug Report November 2021 Edition

The Bug Report — November 2021 Edition By Mark Bereza · November 30, 2021 Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief CVE-2021-20322: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “it was DNS again.” Why am I here? For all our newcomers, welcome to the Advanced Threat Research team’s monthly bug report ...

Nation States Will Weaponize Social and Recruit Bad Guys with Benefits in 2022

ARCHIVED STORY Nation States Will Weaponize Social and Recruit Bad Guys with Benefits in 2022 By Raj Samani · October 31, 2021 McAfee Enterprise and FireEye recently released its 2022 Threat Predictions. In this blog, we take a deeper dive into the continuingly aggressive role Nation States will...

Is There Really Such a Thing as a Low-Paid Ransomware Operator?

ARCHIVED STORY Is There Really Such a Thing as a Low-Paid Ransomware Operator? By Thibault Seret · October 18, 2021 Introduction Going by recent headlines you could be forgiven for thinking all ransomware operators are raking in millions of ill-gotten dollars each year from their nefarious...

Finding 0-days with Jackalope

ARCHIVED STORY Finding 0-days with Jackalope By Douglas McKee · September 16, 2021 Overview On March 21st, 2021, the McAfee Enterprise Advanced Threat Research ATR team released several vulnerabilities it discovered in the Netop Vision Pro Education software, a popular schooling software used by...

How Groove Gang is Shaking up the RAAS to Empower Affiliates

ARCHIVED STORY How Groove Gang is Shaking up the Ransomware-as-a-Service Market to Empower Affiliates By Max Kersten, John Fokker and Thibault Seret · September 08, 2021 Co-authored with Intel471 and McAfee Enterprise Advanced Threat Research ATR would also like to thank Coveware for its...

Vulnerabilities in Globally Used B. Braun Infusion Pump

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee Enterprise ATR Uncovers Vulnerabilities in Globally Used B. Braun Infusion Pump Douglas McKee and Philippe Laulheret · Aug 24, 2021 Overview As part of our continued goal to provide safer products for enterprises and consumers, we at McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR...

Babuk: Biting off More than they Could Chew by Aiming to Encrypt VM and *nix Systems? | McAfee Blogs

Babuk: Biting off More than they Could Chew by Aiming to Encrypt VM and nix Systems? Thibault Seret · JUL 28, 2021 Co-written with Northwave’s Noël Keijzer. Executive Summary For a long time, ransomware gangs were mostly focused on Microsoft Windows operating systems. Yes, we observed the...

A New Program for Your Peloton – Whether You Like It or Not | McAfee Blogs

ARCHIVED STORY A New Program for Your Peloton – Whether You Like It or Not Sam Quinn · JUN 15, 2021 Executive Summary For those that are not familiar with Peloton, it is a brand that has combined high end exercise equipment with cutting-edge technology. Its products are equipped with a large tabl...

Are Virtual Machines the New Gold for Cyber Criminals?

ARCHIVED STORY Are Virtual Machines the New Gold for Cyber Criminals? ATR Operational Intelligence Team · JUN 10, 2021 Introduction Virtualization technology has been an IT cornerstone for organization for years now. It revolutionized the way organizations can scale up IT systems in a heartbeat,...

Netop Vision Pro - Distance Learning Software is 20/20 in Hindsight

ARCHIVED STORY Netop Vision Pro – Distance Learning Software is 20/20 in Hindsight By Sam Quinn · MAR 21, 2021 · 27 MIN READ The McAfee Labs Advanced Threat Research team is committed to uncovering security issues in both software and hardware to help developers provide safer products for...

Operation Dianxun Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting Telecommunication Companies

ARCHIVED STORY Operation Diànxùn: Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting Telecommunication Companies By Thomas Roccia · MAR 16, 2021 In this report the McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR Strategic Intelligence team details an espionage campaign, targeting telecommunication companies, dubbed Operation...

Seven Windows Wonders – Critical Vulnerabilities in DNS Dynamic Updates

ARCHIVED STORY Seven Windows Wonders – Critical Vulnerabilities in DNS Dynamic Updates Eoin Carroll · MAR 09, 2021 Overview For the March 2021 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released a set of seven DNS vulnerabilities. Five of the vulnerabilities are remote code execution RCE with critical CVSS Common...

McAfee ATR Thinks in Graphs | McAfee Blogs

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee ATR Thinks in Graphs By Valentine Mairet · MAR 08, 2021 · 19 MIN READ 0. Introduction John Lambert, a distinguished researcher specializing in threat intelligence at Microsoft, once said these words that changed perspectives: “Defenders think in lists. Attackers think in...

Babuk Ransomware

ARCHIVED STORY Babuk Ransomware By Alexandre Mundo · February 23, 2021 Executive Summary Babuk ransomware is a new ransomware threat discovered in 2021 that has impacted at least five big enterprises, with one already paying the criminals $85,000 after negotiations. As with other variants, this...

Beyond Clubhouse: Vulnerable Agora SDKs Still in Widespread Use | McAfee Blogs

Beyond Clubhouse: Vulnerable Agora SDKs Still in Widespread Use Steve Povolny · FEB 18, 2021 On February 17th, 2021, McAfee disclosed findings based on a 10-month long disclosure process with major video conferencing vendor Agora, Inc. As we disclosed the findings to Agora in April 2020, this...

ATR Team Finds Vulnerability in Agora Video SDK

ARCHIVED STORY Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You: McAfee ATR Finds Vulnerability in Agora Video SDK Douglas McKee · FEB 17, 2021 The McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR team is committed to uncovering security issues in both software and hardware to help developers provide safer products for businesse...

Researchers Follow the Breadcrumbs: The Latest Vulnerabilities in Windows' Network Stack | McAfee Blogs

ARCHIVED STORY Researchers Follow the Breadcrumbs: The Latest Vulnerabilities in Windows’ Network Stack Steve Povolny · FEB 09, 2021 The concept of a trail of breadcrumbs in the offensive security community is nothing new; for many years, researchers on both sides of the ethical spectrum have...

Operation North Star: Behind The Scenes | McAfee Blogs

ARCHIVED STORY Operation North Star: Behind The Scenes Christiaan Beek · NOV 05, 2020 Executive Summary It is rare to be provided an inside view on how major cyber espionage campaigns are conducted within the digital realm. The only transparency afforded is a limited view of victims, a malware...

Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis | McAfee Blogs

Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis By Trellix · NOV 05, 2020 McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research ATR today released research that uncovers previously undiscovered information on how Operation North Star evaluated its prospective victims and launched attacks on organizations in...

CVE-2020-16898: Bad Neighbor | McAfee Blogs

ARCHIVED STORY CVE-2020-16898: “Bad Neighbor” Steve Povolny · OCT 13, 2020 CVE-2020-16898: “Bad Neighbor” CVSS Score: 8.8 Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C Overview Today, Microsoft announced a critical vulnerability in the Windows IPv6 stack, which allows an...