Case AnalysisCase Analysis When finding a bogus Wi-Fi hotspot with the same name as a legitimate one, smartphones also try to connect to it with the stored password. This gives hackers access to legitimate Wi-Fi networks. Security Tips/Takeaways Disable WLAN on smartphones and laptops when Wi-Fi is not used, in case the devices automatically connect […]

Overview On November 20, 2018, local time, Adobe released a security advisory for documenting the remediation of a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code.

1 Sample Introduction 1.1 Sample Type This sample is a trojan, similar to Satori which is a Mirai variant.

Container Basics — Container Networking Container Networking From the evolutionary history of cloud computing systems, the industry has reached a consensus that, while constant breakthroughs have been made to drive the maturation of computing virtualization and storage virtualization, network virtualization has lagged behind, becoming a major bottleneck that encumbers the fast growth of cloud computing. […]

Telecom Exchange LA – Live from Telecom Exchange (TEX) LA 2018, we are pleased to be joined by Guy Rosefelt, Director, Threat Intelligence & Web Security for NSFOCUS. NSFOCUS is an iconic internet and application security company with over 18 years of proven industry experience. Mr. Rosefelt talks about the importance of focusing on low […]

Overview   On Tuesday, Microsoft released September 2018 security updates to fix 64 vulnerabilities, ranging from spoofing attacks to remote code execution vulnerabilities. Affected products include .NET Core, Active Directory, Adobe Flash Player, Azure, BitLocker, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Drivers, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Graphics Component, Microsoft JScript, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office SharePoint, […]

Overview On November 13, local time, Adobe officially released security bulletins and advisories to announce the remediation of multiple vulnerabilities in such products as Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Acrobat and Reader, and Adobe Photoshop CC.

Case AnalysisCase Analysis A malicious actor tends to set up Wi-Fi with a name that is the same as or similar to as a commonly used one, and then set an empty password or the same password as the legitimate Wi-Fi to attract connections from the public. Then the offender will hijack DNS requests on […]

Top 10 countries: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases in October. But the United States has the largest allocated IP addresses in the world and China is in the second place. So, report IP Reputation as a percentage of total IP addresses […]

Vulnerability Overview Recently, Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released a security advisory to strongly advise users of Apache Struts2.3.X to upgrade the Apache Commons FileUpload component. Struts 2.3.x, by default, uses the Commons FileUpload component of V1.3.2. Early in 2016, this component of V1.3.2 is disclosed to contain a deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2016-100031) which could result […]