A remote RCE vulnerability (CVE-2017-17562) was found in all GoAhead Web Server’s versions earlier than 3.6.5. The vulnerability is a result of initializing the environment of forked CGI scripts using untrusted HTTP request parameters, and will affect all users who have CGI support enabled with dynamically linked executables (CGI scripts). This behavior, when combined with […]

An abnormal increase in the CPU usage of a telecom carrier’s 4G firewall substantially slowed down the access from some iPhone users to the Apple website. We suspected that the carrier was hit by a DDoS attack. With the visualized traceback function of NSFOCUS Big Data Security Analytics (BSA), we made a drill-down analysis of […]

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS has received a slew of reports from customers in the finance, telecom, and Internet sectors on similar security events. Through analysis, NSFOCUS believes that these events are all associated with the malware-infected WebLogic Server (WLS) host. Specifically, attackers exploit the WLS component vulnerability (CVE-2017-10271) to attack the WLS middleware host via a […]

On the 15th this month, K.Orange twittered a message, saying that unpatched WebLogic has a vulnerability that could be employed by attackers using a “watch-smartd” program. Recently NSFOCUS received requests from customers in many industries (finance, telecom carriers, the Internet companies and so on) asking for emergence response service as they found the “watch-smartd” program […]

IcedID Banking Trojan Sample Technical Analysis and Solution Date of Release: November 17, 2017 Overview Recently, the IBM X-Force research team discovered a brand new banking Trojan dubbed IcedID. This Trojan was first found spreading in the wild in September 2017, mainly targeting systems used in the financial sectors of US. According to X-Force research, […]

SB Cloud partners with NSFOCUS to bring the first ICSA and Veracode certified Web Application Firewall powered by NSFOCUS to its customers SINGAPORE, November 15, 2017 – NSFOCUS, the leader in holistic hybrid security solutions, is now offering its comprehensive Web Application Security solution on SB Cloud to provide enterprises with the most comprehensive application-layer […]

Overview A new type of ransomware was detected on October 24, when it had not been even half a year from the extensive breakout of the notorious ransomware Petya and WannaCry. This ransomware dubbed BadRabbit has been distributed in a number of European countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Germany, and is now found […]

In August 2017, NSFOCUS’s DDoS situation awareness platform detected anoma-lous bandwidth usage over a customer’s network, which, upon analysis, was confirmed to be a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The attack was characterized by different types of traffic, including TCP flood, HTTP flood, and DNS flood. Tracing source IP addresses, we found that the attack had […]

The underground network industry has a long history and extensive coverage. What happened throughout its history? This document presents the definition, category, means, and examples of the underground network industry, as well as protection measures. Overview What is Underground Industry? Underground industry is a general name for a wide variety of behaviors which, using the […]

Here is a comprehensive tutorial on cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, ranging from entry to practice. Overview Note that XSS attacks are classified according to different angles in the preceding figure, but not simply classified into reflective XSS, stored XSS, and DOM-based XSS. In essence, XSS is injection of HTML code and JavaScript code. This kind […]