Webinar: Insights from CYREN's Q1 2015 Cyber Threats Trend Report

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CYREN CyberThreat ReportApril 2015

Avi Turiel

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• Forbes.com compromise highlights web malware threat

• SEOHide - Advanced blackhat search engine optimization

• The continuing rise of macro malware

• Lessons learned from the Slack and HipChat breaches

• How secure are hashed passwords?

• Q1 stats

Agenda

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• Revealed in February

• Exploits embedded in the “thought for the day” widget

• Target was defense contractors

• But any visitor would have been infected

• Source: espionage group known as the “Sunshop Group”

Forbes.com watering hole attack


How a watering hole attack works


Poll Question #1


• Cloud-based secure web gateway

• Innovative detection technologies

• Custom sandbox arrays on a global basis

• Automatically investigates IPs, domains, hosts, and files associated with suspicious behavior and maintains risk scores

• Inline antimalware and URL filtering

• Comprehensive protection for business users – whether office-based, remote, or roaming

• Also protects users of Guest WiFi or Public WiFi services

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• JavaScript Trojans

• Injected into compromised websites

• Boost the page ranking for specific websites

• Hide hyperlinks to them within the infected sites

• Cybercriminals receive commission for pushing site

• Or use target site to push “spammy” products

Pay day loans

Pharmaceuticals

SEOHide - Advanced blackhat SEO


How SEOHide works



• Microsoft’s popular Office applications include macro functionality based on VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)

• March 1999: Melissa macro virus infected an estimated 20% of computers worldwide

• Microsoft patched Office to force users to actively decide whether to run any macro or not by showing a warning pane and requiring them to click on “enable” or “allow” before processing the macro.

Macro-malware 101


• November 2014 - outbreak of over 3.02 billion emails with new macro-malware

• Uses clever social engineering

Macro-malware reappears in 2014


“Instructions” to enable macros


Email is an effective attack vector

This .doc example was detected by only 4 of 56 Antimalware engines.


Poll Question #2



Poll Question #3


• Slack = team communication tool

• Breach announced in March

• “there was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing user profile information”

Slack Breach

• User names, email addresses, and one-way encrypted (“hashed”) passwords

• One month after a similar breach at HipChat


• Online (cloud) business tools are now targets for cybercriminals

• A treasure trove of business credentials

• Internal business data that can potentially be used for espionage.

Employees often treat the collaboration tools as if they are internal systems and may be less cautious

• User passwords must be managed carefully

• Hackers obtain encrypted passwords

• The possibility to decrypt them exists

Lessons learned


• hash("hello") = 2cf24dba5fb0a30e26e83b2ac5b9e29e1b161e5c1fa7425e73043362938b9824

• Dictionary attack: words, phrases, common passwords

• Brute Force Attack: every possible combination of characters up to a given length

• Lookup Tables: precomputed hashes of the above

Reverse Lookup Tables: compares within compromised list – assumes many users have same passwords

• hash("hello" + "QxLUF1bgIAdeQX") = 9e209040c863f84a31e719795b2577523954739fe5ed3b58a75cff2127075ed1

• Some passwords are salted and some are not

• If all are salted then this adds no protection!

Or if salt is too short, or username is used as salt

How secure are hashed/salted passwords?


• Therefore we are dependent on the site/service that we have signed up for

• Need to trust that their password mechanisms are secure

• The part that is under control of IT and the organization is the user password

• At least 8 characters (preferably more)

• Combinations of chars

• Don’t reuse passwords!

• Use password managers (with long and complex access passwords)

How secure are hashed/salted passwords?

“Slack’s hashing function is bcrypt with a randomly generated salt per-password which makes it computationally infeasible that your password could be recreated from the hashed form”



Applied cyber intelligence


Q1 Android Threats


Q1 Phishing


Q1 Spam

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