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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec 21, 2023 – NSFOCUS proudly announces its recognition in Frost & Sullivan’s latest report Insights for CISOs: Modernizing Security Operations Centers with Security Orchestration and Automated Response as a representative vendor. This insightful report delves into the growth environment, enterprise application value, SOAR solution benefits, the vendor ecosystem, and growth opportunities […]

I. Background of xorbot In November 2023, NSFOCUS Global Threat Hunting System detected that a type of elf file was being widely distributed and accompanied by a large amount of suspected encrypted outbound communication traffic. However, the detection rate of mainstream antivirus engines on this file was close to zero, which aroused our curiosity. After further […]

Introduction On November 26, 2023,  the Guidelines for secure AI system development was jointly released by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in collaboration with the US National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the cybersecurity and information security departments of over […]

What is Zero Trust Security? Zero-trust security is not a specific technology or product, but a security model based on the concept that “All entities are untrusted”. Forrester defines zero trust as “Zero Trust is an information security model that denies access to applications and data by default. Threat prevention is achieved by only granting […]

Rampant Ransomware Attacks On November 8, 2023, U.S. Eastern Time, ICBC Financial Services (FS), the U.S. arm of China’s largest bank, fell victim to a ransomware attack, disrupting certain systems. Reports indicate that the attack, linked to a Citrix vulnerability known as “CitrixBleed,” was orchestrated by the LockBit group. ICBC FS is actively investigating the […]

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT found a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Jolokia (CVE-2022-41678). In the configuration of ActiveMQ, jetty allows org.holokia.http.AgentServlet to process requests for/api/Jolokia. An authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to write a malicious file through the Jolokia service, thus implementing remote code execution. At present, the vulnerability […]

In the digital age, Web application and API security (WAAP) has demonstrated the importance of the development of the web application and API economy, and it is becoming the new standard of the next generation of WAF. WAAP is essential in today’s digital environment. As organizations increasingly rely on web applications and APIs to support […]

The Future of Data Protection: The Emergence of Confidential Computing In today’s information age, data has become an invaluable resource ubiquitous across various sectors, from financial institutions to healthcare and scientific research. However, as data continues to grow, concerns about data privacy and security become increasingly prominent. Incidents of data breaches, hacking, and misuse of […]

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT found that Apache Arrow issued a security notice, which fixed an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the PyArrow library (CVE-2023-47248). Due to PyArrow reading Arrow IPC, Feather, or Parquet data from untrusted sources, PyExtensionType creates an automatic loading feature that allows for deserialization of data from non PyArrow sources. When using […]

“My ChatGPT isn‘t working properly.“ “I can’t log in, and it’s not responding at all.” Just as OpenAI released a series of new features recently, ChatGPT experienced prolonged service disruptions last Wednesday. Subsequently, OpenAI issued a statement revealing that they were facing periodic outages across ChatGPT and the API due to a reflective Distributed Denial […]