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Didier Stevens
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Date
Author
Title
WINDOWS 7 EOL
2019-01-14
Rob VandenBrink
Still Running Windows 7? Time to think about that upgrade project!
WINDOWS
2023-06-29/a>
Brad Duncan
GuLoader- or DBatLoader/ModiLoader-style infection for Remcos RAT
2023-03-22/a>
Didier Stevens
Windows 11 Snipping Tool Privacy Bug: Inspecting PNG Files
2023-02-19/a>
Didier Stevens
"Unsupported 16-bit Application" or HTML?
2023-02-09/a>
Xavier Mertens
A Backdoor with Smart Screenshot Capability
2022-11-05/a>
Guy Bruneau
Windows Malware with VHD Extension
2022-06-26/a>
Didier Stevens
My Paste Command
2022-06-24/a>
Xavier Mertens
Python (ab)using The Windows GUI
2022-04-28/a>
Johannes Ullrich
A Day of SMB: What does our SMB/RPC Honeypot see? CVE-2022-26809
2022-04-14/a>
Johannes Ullrich
An Update on CVE-2022-26809 - MSRPC Vulnerabliity - PATCH NOW
2022-04-06/a>
Brad Duncan
Windows MetaStealer Malware
2022-02-25/a>
Didier Stevens
Windows, Fixed IPv4 Addresses and APIPA
2021-10-14/a>
Xavier Mertens
Port-Forwarding with Windows for the Win
2021-07-21/a>
Johannes Ullrich
"Summer of SAM": Microsoft Releases Guidance for CVE-2021-36934
2021-07-19/a>
Rick Wanner
New Windows Print Spooler Vulnerability - CVE-2021-34481
2021-05-02/a>
Didier Stevens
PuTTY And FileZilla Use The Same Fingerprint Registry Keys
2020-09-30/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Scans for FPURL.xml: Reconnaissance or Not?
2020-09-02/a>
Xavier Mertens
Python and Risky Windows API Calls
2020-09-01/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Exposed Windows Domain Controllers Used in CLDAP DDoS Attacks
2020-08-25/a>
Xavier Mertens
Keep An Eye on LOLBins
2020-06-24/a>
Jan Kopriva
Using Shell Links as zero-touch downloaders and to initiate network connections
2020-03-30/a>
Jan Kopriva
Crashing explorer.exe with(out) a click
2020-03-23/a>
Didier Stevens
Windows Zeroday Actively Exploited: Type 1 Font Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
2020-03-16/a>
Jan Kopriva
Desktop.ini as a post-exploitation tool
2020-02-18/a>
Jan Kopriva
Discovering contents of folders in Windows without permissions
2020-02-17/a>
Didier Stevens
curl and SSPI
2020-02-15/a>
Didier Stevens
bsdtar on Windows 10
2020-01-09/a>
Kevin Shortt
Windows 7 - End of Life
2019-06-27/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Finding the Gold in a Pile of Pennies - Long Tail Analysis in PowerShell
2019-06-06/a>
Xavier Mertens
Keep an Eye on Your WMI Logs
2019-05-22/a>
Johannes Ullrich
An Update on the Microsoft Windows RDP "Bluekeep" Vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) [now with pcaps]
2019-03-05/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Powershell, Active Directory and the Windows Host Firewall
2019-01-14/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Still Running Windows 7? Time to think about that upgrade project!
2018-12-19/a>
Xavier Mertens
Restricting PowerShell Capabilities with NetSh
2018-12-19/a>
Xavier Mertens
Microsoft OOB Patch for Internet Explorer: Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability
2018-06-05/a>
Xavier Mertens
Malicious Post-Exploitation Batch File
2018-05-07/a>
Xavier Mertens
Adding Persistence Via Scheduled Tasks
2018-05-02/a>
Russ McRee
Windows Commands Reference - An InfoSec Must Have
2017-11-15/a>
Xavier Mertens
If you want something done right, do it yourself!
2017-11-11/a>
Xavier Mertens
Keep An Eye on your Root Certificates
2017-01-18/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Making Windows 10 a bit less "Creepy" - Common Privacy Settings
2017-01-12/a>
Mark Baggett
System Resource Utilization Monitor
2016-11-18/a>
Didier Stevens
VBA Shellcode and Windows 10
2016-08-29/a>
Russ McRee
Recommended Reading: Intrusion Detection Using Indicators of Compromise Based on Best Practices and Windows Event Logs
2016-08-02/a>
Tom Webb
Windows 10 Anniversary Update Available
2016-07-12/a>
Xavier Mertens
Hunting for Malicious Files with MISP + OSSEC
2016-05-22/a>
Pasquale Stirparo
The strange case of WinZip MRU Registry key
2016-05-18/a>
Russ McRee
Resources: Windows Auditing & Monitoring, Linux 2FA
2016-04-15/a>
Xavier Mertens
Windows Command Line Persistence?
2016-03-30/a>
Xavier Mertens
What to watch with your FIM?
2016-02-18/a>
Xavier Mertens
Hunting for Executable Code in Windows Environments
2016-01-31/a>
Guy Bruneau
Windows 10 and System Protection for DATA Default is OFF
2015-12-09/a>
Xavier Mertens
Enforcing USB Storage Policy with PowerShell
2015-08-12/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Windows Service Accounts - Why They're Evil and Why Pentesters Love them!
2014-08-15/a>
Tom Webb
AppLocker Event Logs with OSSEC 2.8
2014-07-05/a>
Guy Bruneau
Java Support ends for Windows XP
2014-04-06/a>
Basil Alawi S.Taher
"Power Worm" PowerShell based Malware
2014-04-04/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Windows 8.1 Released
2014-03-24/a>
Johannes Ullrich
New Microsoft Advisory: Unpatched Word Flaw used in Targeted Attacks
2014-03-04/a>
Daniel Wesemann
XPired!
2014-01-10/a>
Basil Alawi S.Taher
Windows Autorun-3
2014-01-04/a>
Tom Webb
Monitoring Windows Networks Using Syslog (Part One)
2013-10-30/a>
Russ McRee
SIR v15: Five good reasons to leave Windows XP behind
2013-03-19/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Being "pushed" today
2013-02-28/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Parsing Windows Eventlogs in Powershell
2012-10-24/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Time to run Windows Update - - Microsoft Updates KB2755801 for Windows RT / IE10 / Flash Player - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2755801
2012-07-19/a>
Mark Baggett
Diagnosing Malware with Resource Monitor
2012-06-25/a>
Guy Bruneau
Issues with Windows Update Agent
2012-05-08/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Windows Firewall Bypass Vulnerability and NetBIOS NS
2012-05-06/a>
Jim Clausing
Tool updates and Win 8
2012-04-10/a>
Swa Frantzen
Windows Vista RIP
2011-12-21/a>
Johannes Ullrich
New Vulnerability in Windows 7 64 bit
2011-07-09/a>
Chris Mohan
Safer Windows Incident Response
2011-06-30/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Update for RSA Authentication Manager
2011-06-01/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Enabling Privacy Enhanced Addresses for IPv6
2011-03-27/a>
Guy Bruneau
Strange Shockwave File with Surprising Attachments
2011-03-15/a>
Lenny Zeltser
Limiting Exploit Capabilities by Using Windows Integrity Levels
2011-02-24/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Windows 7 / 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Problems
2011-02-23/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 out
2011-02-16/a>
Jason Lam
Windows 0-day SMB mrxsmb.dll vulnerability
2011-02-10/a>
Chris Mohan
Befriending Windows Security Log Events
2011-01-24/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Where have all the COM Ports Gone? - How enumerating COM ports led to me finding a “misplaced” Microsoft tool
2011-01-04/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Microsoft Advisory: Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine
2010-11-24/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Privilege escalation 0-day in almost all Windows versions
2010-08-02/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Securing Windows Internet Kiosk
2010-06-15/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability (CVE 2010-1885) exploit in the wild
2010-02-11/a>
Deborah Hale
The Mysterious Blue Screen
2009-11-14/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Microsoft advisory for Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote SMB DoS Exploit released
2009-11-12/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 Remote SMB Exploit
2009-10-24/a>
Marcus Sachs
Windows 7 - How is it doing?
2009-09-08/a>
Guy Bruneau
Vista/2008/Windows 7 SMB2 BSOD 0Day
2009-08-26/a>
Johannes Ullrich
WSUS 3.0 SP2 released
2009-07-16/a>
Guy Bruneau
Changes in Windows Security Center
2009-07-02/a>
Daniel Wesemann
Time to update updating on PCs for 3rd party apps
2009-04-16/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Strange Windows Event Log entry
2009-01-31/a>
Swa Frantzen
Windows 7 - not so secure ?
2008-08-15/a>
Jim Clausing
OMFW 2008 reflections
2008-06-12/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Safari on Windows - not looking good
2008-05-17/a>
Lorna Hutcheson
XP SP3 Issues
2008-05-06/a>
John Bambenek
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Released
2008-05-01/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Windows XP SteadyState
2008-04-29/a>
Bojan Zdrnja
Windows Service Pack blocker tool
2008-04-16/a>
William Stearns
Windows XP Service Pack 3 - unofficial schedule: Apr 21-28
2007-01-03/a>
Toby Kohlenberg
VLC Media Player udp URL handler Format String Vulnerability
7
2024-09-25/a>
Guy Bruneau
OSINT - Image Analysis or More Where, When, and Metadata [Guest Diary]
2023-07-12/a>
Brad Duncan
Loader activity for Formbook "QM18"
2023-06-22/a>
Brad Duncan
Qakbot (Qbot) activity, obama271 distribution tag
2023-06-17/a>
Brad Duncan
Formbook from Possible ModiLoader (DBatLoader)
2023-05-14/a>
Guy Bruneau
VMware Aria Operations addresses multiple Local Privilege Escalations and a Deserialization issue
2023-02-28/a>
Brad Duncan
BB17 distribution Qakbot (Qbot) activity
2022-12-16/a>
Guy Bruneau
VMware Security Updates
2022-09-06/a>
Didier Stevens
Analysis of an Encoded Cobalt Strike Beacon
2022-09-04/a>
Didier Stevens
Video: VBA Maldoc & UTF7 (APT-C-35)
2022-08-29/a>
Didier Stevens
Update: VBA Maldoc & UTF7 (APT-C-35)
2022-08-28/a>
Didier Stevens
Dealing With False Positives when Scanning Memory Dumps for Cobalt Strike Beacons
2022-08-26/a>
Guy Bruneau
HTTP/2 Packet Analysis with Wireshark
2022-08-16/a>
Didier Stevens
VBA Maldoc & UTF7 (APT-C-35)
2022-08-14/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Realtek SDK SIP ALG Vulnerability: A Big Deal, but not much you can do about it. CVE 2022-27255
2022-07-09/a>
Didier Stevens
7-Zip Editing & MoW
2022-07-04/a>
Didier Stevens
7-Zip & MoW: "For Office files"
2022-07-03/a>
Didier Stevens
7-Zip & MoW
2022-06-09/a>
Brad Duncan
TA570 Qakbot (Qbot) tries CVE-2022-30190 (Follina) exploit (ms-msdt)
2022-05-11/a>
Brad Duncan
TA578 using thread-hijacked emails to push ISO files for Bumblebee malware
2022-01-12/a>
Johannes Ullrich
A Quick CVE-2022-21907 FAQ
2021-12-18/a>
Guy Bruneau
VMware Security Update - https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0030.html
2021-10-16/a>
Guy Bruneau
Apache is Actively Scan for CVE-2021-41773 & CVE-2021-42013
2021-10-06/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Apache 2.4.49 Directory Traversal Vulnerability (CVE-2021-41773)
2021-06-30/a>
Johannes Ullrich
CVE-2021-1675: Incomplete Patch and Leaked RCE Exploit
2021-06-26/a>
Guy Bruneau
CVE-2019-9670: Zimbra Collaboration Suite XXE vulnerability
2021-06-03/a>
Jim Clausing
Strange goings on with port 37
2021-04-08/a>
Xavier Mertens
Simple Powershell Ransomware Creating a 7Z Archive of your Files
2021-02-24/a>
Brad Duncan
Malspam pushes GuLoader for Remcos RAT
2020-12-18/a>
Jan Kopriva
A slightly optimistic tale of how patching went for CVE-2019-19781
2020-10-28/a>
Jan Kopriva
SMBGhost - the critical vulnerability many seem to have forgotten to patch
2020-08-08/a>
Guy Bruneau
Scanning Activity Include Netcat Listener
2020-05-01/a>
Jim Clausing
Attack traffic on TCP port 9673
2020-01-13/a>
Didier Stevens
Citrix ADC Exploits: Overview of Observed Payloads
2020-01-11/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Citrix ADC Exploits are Public and Heavily Used. Attempts to Install Backdoor
2020-01-09/a>
Kevin Shortt
Windows 7 - End of Life
2020-01-07/a>
Johannes Ullrich
A Quick Update on Scanning for CVE-2019-19781 (Citrix ADC / Gateway Vulnerability)
2019-11-06/a>
Brad Duncan
More malspam pushing Formbook
2019-08-01/a>
Johannes Ullrich
What is Listening On Port 9527/TCP?
2019-07-26/a>
Kevin Shortt
DVRIP Port 34567 - Uptick
2019-06-19/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Critical Actively Exploited WebLogic Flaw Patched CVE-2019-2729
2019-05-22/a>
Johannes Ullrich
An Update on the Microsoft Windows RDP "Bluekeep" Vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) [now with pcaps]
2019-04-28/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Update about Weblogic CVE-2019-2725 (Exploits Used in the Wild, Patch Status)
2019-02-02/a>
Guy Bruneau
Scanning for WebDAV PROPFIND Exploiting CVE-2017-7269
2019-01-14/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Still Running Windows 7? Time to think about that upgrade project!
2018-08-20/a>
Didier Stevens
OpenSSH user enumeration (CVE-2018-15473)
2017-08-26/a>
Didier Stevens
Malware analysis: searching for dots
2017-07-01/a>
Rick Wanner
Using nmap to scan for MS17-010 (CVE-2017-0143 EternalBlue)
2017-05-13/a>
Guy Bruneau
Microsoft Released Guidance for WannaCrypt
2017-01-10/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Port 37777 "MapTable" Requests
2016-10-22/a>
Guy Bruneau
Request for Packets TCP 4786 - CVE-2016-6385
2016-06-15/a>
Richard Porter
Warp Speed Ahead, L7 Open Source Packet Generator: Warp17
2016-02-13/a>
Guy Bruneau
VMware VMSA-2015-0007.3 has been Re-released
2016-01-31/a>
Guy Bruneau
OpenSSL 1.0.2 Advisory and Update
2015-11-21/a>
Guy Bruneau
Nmap 7.00 is out!
2015-08-12/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Wireshark 1.12.7 is released, multiple fixes. Find the release notes at: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.12.7.html and the binaries at: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
2014-09-25/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Update on CVE-2014-6271: Vulnerability in bash (shellshock)
2014-09-24/a>
Pedro Bueno
Attention *NIX admins, time to patch!
2014-07-07/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Multi Platform *Coin Miner Attacking Routers on Port 32764
2014-03-24/a>
Johannes Ullrich
New Microsoft Advisory: Unpatched Word Flaw used in Targeted Attacks
2014-02-27/a>
Richard Porter
DDoS and BCP 38
2014-02-07/a>
Rob VandenBrink
New ISO Standards on Vulnerability Handling and Disclosure
2013-12-05/a>
Mark Hofman
Updated Standards Part 1 - ISO 27001
2013-11-14/a>
Johannes Ullrich
iOS 7.0.4 released. Fixes issue with unauthorized in App purchases http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Nov/msg00000.html
2013-11-09/a>
Guy Bruneau
IE Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploiting msvcrt.dll
2013-09-17/a>
John Bambenek
Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Advisory for all Versions of Internet Explorer
2013-05-09/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Microsoft released a Fix-it for the Internet Explorer 8 Vulnerability http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2847140
2013-04-16/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Java 7 Update 21 is available - Watch for Behaviour Changes !
2013-03-25/a>
Johannes Ullrich
IPv6 Focus Month: IPv6 over IPv4 Preference
2013-03-19/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Being "pushed" today
2013-01-09/a>
Richard Porter
The 80's called - They Want Their Mainframe Back!
2013-01-04/a>
Guy Bruneau
"FixIt" Patch for CVE-2012-4792 Bypassed
2012-10-17/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 17 - A Standard for Risk Management - ISO 27005
2012-10-08/a>
Mark Hofman
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 8 ISO 27001
2012-09-21/a>
Guy Bruneau
IE Cumulative Updates MS12-063 - KB2744842
2012-09-21/a>
Guy Bruneau
Update for Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 (2755801)
2012-09-17/a>
Rob VandenBrink
IE Zero Day is "For Real"
2012-07-19/a>
Mark Baggett
Diagnosing Malware with Resource Monitor
2012-06-18/a>
Guy Bruneau
CVE-2012-1875 exploit is now available
2012-05-25/a>
Guy Bruneau
Technical Analysis of Flash Player CVE-2012-0779
2012-05-05/a>
Tony Carothers
Vulnerability Exploit for Snow Leopard
2012-04-27/a>
Mark Hofman
Microsoft has added MSSQL 2008 R2 SP1 to the list of affected software for MS12-027 (Thanks Ryan). More info here --> http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms12-027
2011-12-21/a>
Johannes Ullrich
New Vulnerability in Windows 7 64 bit
2011-11-03/a>
Richard Porter
An Apple, Inc. Sandbox to play in.
2011-06-01/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Enabling Privacy Enhanced Addresses for IPv6
2011-02-23/a>
Johannes Ullrich
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 out
2010-12-20/a>
Guy Bruneau
Patch Issues with Outlook 2007
2010-09-17/a>
Robert Danford
Circa 2007 Linux Kernel Vulnerability Resurfaces (Was CVE-2007-4573, Now CVE-2010-3301)
2010-08-22/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
SCADA: A big challenge for information security professionals
2010-07-20/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
iTunes buffer overflow vulnerability
2010-07-20/a>
Manuel Humberto Santander Pelaez
Truecrypt 7.0 released
2010-03-10/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Microsoft Security Advisory 981374 - Remote Code Execution Vulnerability for IE6 and IE7
2010-03-10/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Microsoft re-release of KB973811 - attacks on Extended Protection for Authentication
2010-02-21/a>
Tony Carothers
TCP Port 12174 Request For Packets
2009-12-29/a>
Rick Wanner
What's up with port 12174? Possible Symantec server compromise?
2009-11-22/a>
Marcus Sachs
IE6 and IE7 0-Day Reported
2009-11-14/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Microsoft advisory for Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote SMB DoS Exploit released
2009-11-12/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 Remote SMB Exploit
2009-11-07/a>
Marcus Sachs
More Thoughts on Legacy Systems
2009-10-24/a>
Marcus Sachs
Windows 7 - How is it doing?
2009-10-06/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 6 ports 67&68 udp - bootp and dhcp
2009-10-05/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
Cyber Security Awareness Month - Day 5 port 31337
2009-07-16/a>
Guy Bruneau
Changes in Windows Security Center
2009-05-28/a>
Stephen Hall
Microsoft DirectShow vulnerability
2009-05-27/a>
donald smith
WebDAV write-up
2009-05-02/a>
Rick Wanner
Significant increase in port 2967 traffic
2009-02-13/a>
Andre Ludwig
Third party information on conficker
2009-01-31/a>
Swa Frantzen
Windows 7 - not so secure ?
2009-01-12/a>
William Salusky
Downadup / Conficker - MS08-067 exploit and Windows domain account lockout
2008-08-10/a>
Stephen Hall
Fake IE 7 update spam doing the rounds
2008-08-02/a>
Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Issues affecting sites using Sitemeter [resolved]
2008-07-02/a>
Jim Clausing
The scoop on the spike in UDP port 7 traffic
2006-11-20/a>
Joel Esler
MS06-070 Remote Exploit
EOL
2022-07-23/a>
Guy Bruneau
Analysis of SSH Honeypot Data with PowerBI
2020-12-22/a>
Xavier Mertens
Malware Victim Selection Through WiFi Identification
2019-01-14/a>
Rob VandenBrink
Still Running Windows 7? Time to think about that upgrade project!
2017-03-10/a>
Xavier Mertens
The Side Effect of GeoIP Filters
2014-03-04/a>
Daniel Wesemann
XPired!
2013-03-06/a>
Adam Swanger
IPv6 Focus Month: Guest Diary: Stephen Groat - Geolocation Using IPv6 Addresses
2012-12-03/a>
John Bambenek
John McAfee Exposes His Location in Photo About His Being on Run
2010-06-18/a>
Adrien de Beaupre
End of the road for Cisco CSA
2010-04-14/a>
Mark Hofman
ClamAV 0.94 EOL Reminder
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