Uncovering Your Security Blind Spots: Keys to Protecting your Organization from the Unknown

Many organizations are shocked to learn their systems have been breached, with attackers having exposed vulnerabilities. However, you can defend your organization against these threats by taking some proactive measures. Minimizing your security risk begins with risk management – ensuring proper asset management, implementing policies and procedures around protecting assets, and effective risk mitigation. Yet […]

TEAMARES Launches DeimosC2

Flexible, Open-Source Tool to Manage Post-Exploitation Issues – Without the Extra Spend PLANO, TX – July 23, 2020  – TEAMARES, the offensive security and incident response arm of CyberOne, today announced the launch of DeimosC2, addressing the market need for a cross-compatible, open-source Command and Control (C2) tool for managing compromised machines that includes mobile support. Offensive security teams often need access to a cost-effective, easy-to-use tool that can manage […]

Local Privilege Escalation Discovered in GlobalProtect App

Versions Tested: GlobalProtect App < 5.1.4 on Windows GlobalProtect App < 5.0.10 on Windows Product: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/globalprotect Security Advisories: https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2032 CVE Numbers: CVE-2020-2032 CVSS Score: 7.0 CWE: CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition NIST: N/A OWASP: N/A Summary: A race condition vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows allowed a local limited Windows […]

Securing Your Cookies: HTTPOnly Flag for Cookie Theft Defense

Missing HttpOnly flags on cookies are a common finding in Web Application penetration testing. Many times, there is confusion surrounding whether it is necessary to enable this flag though. However, cookies can contain session tokens and other values that can be useful to a malicious actor and should be protected. If the cookies do not […]

Local Privilege Escalation Discovered in VMware Fusion

Versions Tested: VMware Fusion 11.5.3 Products: https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Remote-Console/index.html https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon-Client/index.html Security Advisories: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0011.html CVE Number(s): CVE-2020-3957 CVSS Score: 7.3 CWE: CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition CWE-424: Improper Protection of Alternate Path NIST: N/A OWASP: N/A Summary: VMware Fusion, VMRC and Horizon Client contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) issue […]

Why a Proactive IR Strategy Is Critical

Breaches are a fact of life for every business. However, it is possible to stop breaches and improve your security posture by taking a proactive approach to your incident response (IR) strategy. The Risk of a Cyber Security Breach Continues to Increase Consider: A joint study by Ponemon Institute and IBM Security revealed the percentage chance of […]

COVID-19 Contact Tracing Methods Compared: Examining Privacy & Security Implications

Discussions about contact tracing have been ongoing since February 2020, when some experts began looking ahead at how to move through the global COVID-10 pandemic. What Is Contact Tracing? Contact tracing essentially comprises identifying those who have been infected with COVID-19 and notifying as many people as possible who have been in close contact with […]

Ransomware and the CIA Triad: Considerations for Evolving Attack Methods

One thing is clear: no one is safe from ransomware attacks. What is changing, however, are attack modes as threat actors adjust their methods based on evolving mitigation methods being employed. For several years, ransomware has been viewed as a type of malware that locks or encrypts the system or data and demands a ransom […]

CYBERONE’s TEAMARES a Top Contributor to Folding@Home in Global Fight Against COVID-19

In times like these, we all could use some good news and CyberOne‘s TEAMARES is excited to share some: we just reached top contributor status in our participation in Folding@Home’s fight against COVID-19! As of this week, we are now in the top 0.3% of all team contributors. It would not be possible without the […]

Hard-Coded Administrator Password Discovered in OpsRamp Gateway

Version Tested: 3.0.0 Product: https://www.opsramp.com/ CVE Numbers: CVE-2020-11543 CVSS Score: 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CWE: CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials OWASP: https://owasp.org/www-community/vulnerabilities/Use_of_hard-coded_password Summary: During a recent penetration test, CyberOne‘s TEAMARES researchers discovered that OpsRamp Gateway has an administrative account named vadmin that allows root SSH access to the server. This account was unknown to clients unless requested […]