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 code’s original main module. XBash […]
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 phishing. Git encourages all users […]
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 that targeted Tianyi Campus clients, […]
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 activities or disrupt breach progression. […]
Overview Since their source code was publicly released on GitHub, Mirai and Qbot have wreaked havoc on the Internet of things (IoT). Before such public release, Mirai had been found to have adversarial behavior against Qbot in its infection process. Recently, the research team of NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence center (NTI) captured the first Qbot variant […]
On August 22, 2018, Beijing time, Apache Software Foundation (ASF) released a security bulletin, announcing a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-11776, CNVD-2018-15894, or CNNVD-201808-740) in Apache Struts 2. This vulnerability exists in either of the following cases: The namespace value is not set for a result defined in underlying XML configurations. Also, upper action configurations […]
Internet Threat Status CVE Statistics The number of new CVE IDs in last week was 193, a decrease compared with the previous week. Threat Review WPA3 Standard Officially Launches With New Wi-Fi Security Features （06-25-2018） The Wi-Fi Alliance today officially launched WPA3—the next-generation Wi-Fi security standard that promises to eliminate all the known […]
Internet Threat Status CVE Statistics From the figure above, we can see an obvious rise in CVE IDs over last week. Besides, the fact that quite a few vulnerabilites were disclosed or discovered recently also reminded people to keep close attention to their systems’ security. Threat Review Quarterly Threat Report |Q1 2018 Ransomware volumes reduced; […]
(Report ID: 201824) Internet Threat Status CVE Statistics Last week we saw a slight increase in the total entries of CVE IDs. Threat Review New ‘Lazy FP State Restore’ Vulnerability Found in All Modern Intel CPUs Date: 06-13-2018 Description: Hell Yeah! Another security vulnerability has been discovered in Intel chips that affects the processor’s […]
Overview Drupal released a security advisory on 28 March 2018 to disclose a remote execution code (RCE) vulnerability in the Drupal core, sa-core-2018-002 (CVE-2018-7600). Soon, two more security advisories were also published within a month, including a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability and a critical code execution vulnerability — sa-core-2018-004 (CVE-2018-7602). In the following two months, […]
