IResponse to IEncrypt
Guardicore Labs provided assistance in a ransomware investigation. We analysed the decryption process of the IEncrypt ransomware and provided a safe-to-use version of the attackers’ decryptor.
Introducing Guardicore Cyber Threat Intelligence
/1 Comment/in Labs /by Daniel GoldbergGuardicore Labs is announcing the release of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), a freely available resource to assist security teams in identifying and investigating malicious IP addresses and domains. Our Cyber Threat Intelligence is designed to allow security teams to keep track of potential threats that are specific to data center and cloud infrastructure.
Highlights of BlueHat Israel 2019
/0 Comments/in Labs /by Daniel GoldbergBlueHat Israel covered many interesting talks, covering supply chain attacks, processor flaws and many more.
A vulnerability in Debian’s apt allows for easy lateral movement in data centers
/0 Comments/in Labs /by Daniel GoldbergGuardicore Labs explains the recent vulnerability in the apt package management tool that allows attackers to exploit software installation process to attack Linux servers.
Bread and butter attacks
/2 Comments/in Labs /by Daniel GoldbergGuardicore Labs has uncovered an SSH brute force attack that has stayed under the radar for years. The attack deploys a RAT with DDoS capabilities and a cryptocurrency miner. In this post, we describe the attack, payload and different preventive steps.
What’s New in Infection Monkey Release 1.6
/0 Comments/in Labs /by Daniel GoldbergWe are proud to announce the release of a new version of the Infection Monkey, GuardiCore’s open-source Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) tool. Release 1.6 introduces several new features and a few bug fixes.
With libSSH, Authentication is Optional
/1 Comment/in Labs /by Daniel GoldbergA critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-10933) was disclosed in libSSH, a library implementing the SSH2 protocol for clients and servers. The vulnerability allows an attacker to completely bypass the authentication step and connect to the server without providing any credentials, the worst possible flaw for a library implementing SSH.
Operation Prowli: Monetizing 40,000 Victim Machines
/3 Comments/in Labs /by Daniel GoldbergGuardicore Labs has uncovered a previously unknown operation named Prowli, focused on cryptocurrency mining and traffic hijacking. This operation showcases how attackers abuses insecure websites and their visitors by redirecting them to malicious domains.
Azure passwords are still at risk; Infection Monkey can help
/0 Comments/in Labs /by Ravit GreitserAs this security flaw still exists and puts Azure environments at risk, we believe it’s important to continuously verify whether your environment is vulnerable. To do that we integrated Azure password harvesting capabilities into the Infection Monkey.
Recovering Plaintext Passwords from Azure Virtual Machines like It’s the 1990s
/3 Comments/in Labs /by Daniel GoldbergWhile researching the Azure Guest Agent, we’ve uncovered several security issues which have all been reported to Microsoft. This post will focus on a security design flaw in the VM Access plugin that may enable a cross platform attack impacting every machine type provided by Azure.