In August 2020 Microsoft patched the ZeroLogon vulnerability CVE-2020-1472. In summary, this vulnerability would allow an attacker with a foothold in your network to become a domain admin in a few clicks. The attacker only needs to establish a network connection towards the domain controller. At NVISO we are supporting multiple clients with our MDR …
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This blog post is part of a series, keep an eye out for the following parts! TL;DR - Smart home devices are everywhere, so I tested the base security measures implemented on fifteen devices on the European market. In this blog post, I share my experience throughout these assessments and my conclusions on the overall …
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In July 2020, NVISO detected a set of malicious Excel documents, also known as “maldocs”, that deliver malware through VBA-activated spreadsheets. While the malicious VBA code and the dropped payloads were something we had seen before, it was the specific way in which the Excel documents themselves were created that caught our attention. The creators …
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TL;DR - In this post, we'll explore some mobile malware: how to create them, what they can do, and how to avoid them. Are you interested in learning more about how to protect your phone from shady figures? Then this blog post is for you. Introduction We all know the classic ideas about security on …
Recently, for our open-sourced ee-outliers framework, we released a new outlier model capable of detecting the sudden appearance of one or multiple field values of an Elasticsearch event. For example, this model could spot new TLDs that are suddenly being contacted (DNS/SSL) and communicating with C2 domains. It could also detect an executable that suddenly …
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Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) is one of the most talked about cybersecurity topics in the last few years; it is on the agenda of most security officers as one of the first improvements to embrace in their organization, if not yet done. Why, though? What has made EDR the number one must-have security solution? …
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During some redteam engagements, we find ourselves in the need of writing DLL's. However, debugging DLL's is not as easy as it seems, as a DLL isn't built to run on its own.In this article, we will explore how you can debug a DLL effectively. What is a DLL? A DLL is short for a …
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TL;DR: We use a proof of concept script to attack a Digi Connect ME 9210 device affected by CVE-2020-11898, part of the newly-released Ripple20 series of vulnerabilities. Ripple20 In June 2020, JSOF released information about a series of 19 vulnerabilities dubbed "Ripple20". Ripple20 affects the popular Treck network stack, which is used by many connected …
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Introduction In this blog post, we want to introduce the user to the concept of using Machine Learning techniques designed to originally spot anomalies in written (English) sentences, and instead apply them to support the Threat Analyst in spotting anomalies in security events. The basic idea behind this is that we try to identify sentences …
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Ever wondered how tools like ExifTool or stegano programs work under the hood? Ever wanted to create your own program to embed secret data into images? In this is a short blog post on how to embed secret data in image files. This is something you can do as a party trick, some sort of …
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