While 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.
We are pleased to announce a new version of our Infection Monkey open source attack simulation tool with several significant enhancements. We first introduced the Infection Monkey in 2016 and have continuously developed and supported it. Part of what we did came from feedback we received from our community so thanks everyone for contributing!
Last week we published a post about a security design flaw we discovered in the Azure Guest Agent. An attacker can take advantage of this flaw to
At any given moment, attack and defense are in a cat and mouse game where each side gains a momentary advantage. What we’ve recently seen over the past few months is a situation where defense is playing catch-up with what appears to be a serious hardware bug.
In the last few months Guardicore Labs has been investigating multiple attack campaigns conducted by an established Chinese crime group that operates worldwide. The campaigns are launched from a large coordinated infrastructure and are mostly targeting servers running database services. By now we were able to identify three attack variants – Hex, Hanako and Taylor – targeting different SQL Servers, each with its own goals, scale and target services. This report covers the attackers’ infrastructure, attack variants and how the victims are used for both profit and further propagation.
I spent the last week at the “Hacker Summer Camp” of Black Hat and DEFCON. Besides meeting people and enjoying the dual craziness of the DEFCON crowd and the Black Hat business hall, we also gave a well received lecture – Escalating Insider Threats using VMWare’s API. Ofri Ziv, Head of Guardicore labs, presented a backdoor we discovered in VMware’s remote administration API, enabling vSphere users to quickly and easily take over guest machines without providing guest credentials
