Underground Scams: Cutting the Head Off a Snake

Shortly after publishing our post about Terror EK, "King Cobra" (a Twitter account that we ...

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CVE-2017-5521: Bypassing Authentication on NETGEAR Routers

Home routers are the first and sometimes last line of defense for a network. Despite this fact, ...

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SVG Files Are Not As Benign As It May Seem

Bad guys are getting quite creative trying to evade spam filters and antivirus scanners. Last week, ...

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Creating the ModSecurity v3 IDS connector as part of Google Summer of Code

A note from the Trustwave Spiderlabs ModSecurity team:

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Two Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in McAfee Security Scan Plus

This post will discuss two separate Local Privilege Escalation vulnerabilities in the McAfee ...

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Is ModSecurity’s SecRules Turing Complete?

Have you ever seen a rule for ModSecurity? They may look similar to the following:

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Operation Grand Mars: a comprehensive profile of Carbanak activity in 2016/17

The Trustwave SpiderLabs team has been actively tracking a malicious campaign conducted by the ...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2017

It's everyone's favorite Patch Tuesday, January's Patch Tuesday. Historically January has always ...

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Terror Exploit Kit? More like Error Exploit Kit

Q: What does it take to create a simple, yet fully functioning exploit kit?

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Steganalysis, the Counterpart of Steganography

In my last blog post I discussed the art of embedding secret messages in any file so that only the ...

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Raiding the Piggy Bank: Webshell Secrets Revealed

Introduction

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2016

December's Patch Tuesday is here to greet you with the pleasant tidings of patches for all of your ...

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A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X

Trustwave recently reported a locally exploitable issue in the Skype Desktop API Mac OS-X which ...

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New Carbanak / Anunak Attack Methodology

In the last month Trustwave was engaged by multiple hospitality businesses for investigations by an ...

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OWASP Core Rule Set 3.0.0 (Final) release

The OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS) team is excited to announce the immediate availability of the OWASP ...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2016

The November Patch Tuesday is here and it's a big one with 14 bulletins covering 68 unique CVEs. ...

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Bopup Communications Server Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Trustwave recently discovered a remotely exploitable issue in all current versions of "B Labs" ...

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About SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise dbcc import_sproc SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2016-7402)

This vulnerability was introduced in SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise 16.0 SP02 PL03: prior versions ...

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OWASP ModSecurity CRS Version 3.0 RC2 Released

The OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS) is an Open Source project run by the Open Web Application Security ...

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Down the Rabbit Hole: Extracting Maliciousness from MSG Files Without Outlook

Email As Infection Vector

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2016

October has arrived with seasonal changes and a new Microsoft Patch Tuesday. This Patch Tuesday ...

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RIG's Facelift

RIG EK has been in the headlines recently mainly because both EITEST and PseudoDarkLeech (big ...

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Steganography... what is that?

When people think about Information Security the first word that generally comes mind is "Hacking", ...

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Necurs – the Heavyweight Malware Spammer

Today we want to dwell upon a pesky botnet that goes by the name of Necurs, and in particular its ...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2016

September's Patch Tuesday is upon us and it's the biggest one so far this year. While past months ...

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Sundown EK – Stealing Its Way to the Top

Sundown is one of the newest Exploit Kits on the market these days, and like many up-and-coming ...

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OWASP ModSecurity CRS Version 3.0 RC1 Released

Trustwave has been dedicated to supporting ModSecurity and the associated community for the better ...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2016

Today is August's Patch and with only 9 bulletins with 27 unique CVEs it's one of the lightest ...

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