0x00 Overview PowerShell has been a focus of concern for network defense. The fileless PowerShell, featuring LotL and excellent ease of use, is widely used in various attack scenarios. In order to capture PowerShell-based attacks, an increasing number of security professionals tend to, through PowerShell event log analysis, extract attack records such as post-exploitation data […]

Extensive Power Outages in Venezuela and New York Starting from the evening of March 7, 2019, a cyberattack hit Venezuela, leaving most parts of the country, including the capital Caracas, without power for more than 24 hours1. Because of the outage, the subway service in Caracas came to a halt, resulting in massive traffic jams. […]

Overview On October 21, 2020, Beijing time, Oracle released Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2020 that fixes 402 vulnerabilities of different risk levels. The WebLogic Server Core component is prone to three severe vulnerabilities with a CVSS base score of 9.8, which are assigned CVE-2020-14841, CVE-2020-14825, and CVE-2020-14859 respectively.

Executive Summary With the constant evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), the security of IoT is becoming an issue that more and more people are concerned about. In 2016, we issued the IoT Security Whitepaper to popularize IoT security for a general audience. In 2018, we released the 2017 Annual IoT Cybersecurity Report to […]

Overview Recently, Apache Solr fixed a vulnerability (CVE-2020-13957) in the Configsets API upload function. Attackers could perform unauthorized operations by using a combination of UPLOAD/CREATE actions, which might eventually lead to command execution. Apache Solr is an enterprise search server that is based on Lucene.

Overview On October 13, 2020 (local time), Microsoft fixed a critical vulnerability dubbed Bad Neighbor (CVE-2020-16898) in the Windows TCP/IP stack in its latest monthly patch update. An attacker might execute arbitrary code on a remote system by sending maliciously crafted ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets. McAfee said the proof-of-concept code shared with MAPP (Microsoft Active […]

Overview On October 20, 2020, local time, Oracle released Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2020, its own security advisories, and third-party security bulletins, which fix 402 vulnerabilities of varying severity levels. For details about affected products and available patches, see the appendix. For complete information, see Oracle’s official security advisory from the following link:

Overview In 2020 H1, a total of 1419 vulnerabilities were added to the NSFOCUS Vulnerability Database (NSVD), 714 of which were high-risk vulnerabilities. Among these high-risk vulnerabilities, 184 vulnerabilities were Microsoft-related ones. High-risk vulnerabilities were mainly distributed in major products of Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, Google, Cisco, IBM, Moxa, Apache, and other vendors.

Overview  Microsoft released October 2020 security updates on Tuesday which fix 87 vulnerabilities ranging from simple spoofing attacks to remote code execution in various products, including .NET Framework, Azure, Group Policy, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Graphics Component, Microsoft NTFS, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office SharePoint, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Codecs Library, PowerShellGet, Visual Studio, […]

1. Background Recently, the JSOF research lab discovered a series of vulnerabilities on the Treck TCP/IP stack, which were dubbed Ripple20. Successful exploit of these vulnerabilities may allow remote code execution or disclosure of sensitive information. Technical details will be fully released at BlackHat USA 2020.