Overview On October 16, 2018, local time, Oracle released its quarterly security advisory of the Critical Patch Update (CPU) for the third quarter. The CPU fixes 301 vulnerabilities of varying severity levels across the product families. For details about affected products and available patches, see the appendix. (more…)
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XBash Malware Security Advisory
On September 17, 2018, Unit42 researchers published an analysis of a new malware family XBash on its official blog. According to them, XBash was developed by the Iron Group, a cybercrime organization that has been active since 2016. The malware was named XBash based on the name of the malicious...
Git RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2018-17456)Security Advisory
1 Vulnerability Overview Recently, the Git project disclosed CVE-2018-17456, a vulnerability in Git that can cause arbitrary code execution when a user clones a malicious repository. An attacker can take control of a target host by exploiting this vulnerability and at the same time using social engineering methods such as...
NuggetPhantom Analysis Report
1.1 Executive Summary In a recent emergency response activity, NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence center (NTI) discovered a security event that featured NuggetPhantom, a modularized malware toolkit. According to our observation, the organization behind this event made its debut at the end of 2016 in the blue screen of death (BSOD) event...
Thoughts on the Application of the Micro Honeypot System in the Financial Sector
Overview According to the Emerging Technology Analysis: Deception Techniques and Technologies Create Security Technology Business Opportunities released by Gartner in 2015, "Deception technologies are defined by the use of deceit and/or feints designed to thwart or throw off an attacker's cognitive processes, disrupt an attacker's automation tools, delay an attacker's...
NSFOCUS Completes IDC Migration and Expansion
NSFOCUS Completes IDC Migration and Expansion by Triet Nguyen Earlier this year, we kicked off a massive undertaking to shift our NSFOCUS Cloud to a managed service provider with the intention of consolidating internal data center real estate within our five data centers so we could regain resources to focus...
