A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2019-7238) was found in Sonatype’s Nexus Repository Manager (NXRM) 3, an open source project that allows developers, such as DevOps professionals, to manage software components required for software development, application deployment, and automated hardware provisioning.
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When malware is difficult to discover — and has limited samples for analysis — we propose a machine learning model that uses adversarial autoencoder and semantic hashing to find what bad actors try to hide. We, along with researchers from the Federation University Australia, discussed this model in our study titled “Generative Malware Outbreak Detection.”
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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March addressed 64 vulnerabilities, 17 of which were rated critical, 45 important, one moderate, and another low in severity. Two of these vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-0797 and CVE-2019-0808, were reported to have been actively exploited in the wild. The patches addressed security flaws in a number of Microsoft products and services: .NET Framework, Edge, Exchange, Internet Explorer, Office, Office Services and Web Apps, NuGet, Team Foundation Server, and Windows. Seven of the vulnerabilities were disclosed via Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).
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In some of the recent Powload-related incidents we saw, we noticed significant changes to some of the attachments in the spam emails: the use of steganography and targeting of specific countries. Figure 2 shows the difference. For example, the samples we analyzed in early 2018 had more straightforward infection chains. These updates added another stage to the execution of malicious routines as a way to evade detection.
The Powload variants that use these techniques drop and execute the Ursnif and Bebloh data stealers. We did not see any notable differences in the payloads’ routines. The distribution tactics also resemble a spam campaign we uncovered last year, which delivered the same information stealers but distributed via the Cutwail botnet.
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We discovered a malware that uses three different online services — including Slack and GitHub– as part of its routine. Analysis of the attacker’s tools, techniques, and procedures lead us to believe that this might be a targeted attack from very capable threat actors.
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