Questions tagged [incident-response]
The art of responding to incidents in an organized and thoughtful manner.
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Kismet output shows an endless stream of MAC addresses trying(?) to associate with my BSSID - Possible DDoS or perhaps signs of brute-force?
I am noticing some problems with my Wi-Fi lately (disconnects, signal degradation, intermittent lag when browsing in certain devices, etc), so I ended up investigating.
Kismet shows an endless stream ...
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Is loss of availability automatically a security incident?
Suppose you need to define for an organization what should be considered an information security incident which, when observed, triggers security incident response (investigate, contain, eradicate, ...
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Preventing Unauthorized Public Exposure of Repositories
Recently, a developer accidentally made a private repository public, which contained secret keys. Although a third-party application promptly flagged and rotated the exposed credentials, the ...
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Security Incident Response Tracking [closed]
Besides Security IR tracking & workflow that is available in SIEM platforms, what are other tools that can do this such as standalone products like ServiceNow SIR or Everbridge xmatters? I found ...
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How to monitor for vulnerabilities across your company stack?
Let's say a software company XYZ is using a variety of 3rd party vendors - as an example, it could use:
Lastpass as a company password manager;
Azure B2C as the authentication framework for the ...
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Someone unknown accessed my server via ssh, what steps can I follow to learn more?
First I will admit this machine isn't particularly well secured. It has an ssh port open to the internet, it accepts password login, it's OS and packages are not particularly up to date. I know many ...
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If a ransomware is currently encrypting my files, should I power off my computer?
I wondered what to do if there is a currently ongoing ransomware execution on my computer.
Assuming that I'm "spotting" it while it is encrypting my files, should I power my computer off?
I ...
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Is someone accessing my win10 computer?
I have been wondering if someone is accessing my system and after doing using some basic assessment tools like netstat and event viewer, found some unusual open ports(12345) and special Logon! below ...
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Is Hanbook for CSIRTs still relevant learning material today?
The question is pretty self-explanatory. Is this book relevant today considering it has been published some time ago? If anyone has read it could you answer what are some things that have changed and ...
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BPFDoor injection point and containment
How to determine BPFdoor entrypoint?I used following link to detect it on host https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2022/08/01/heres-a-simple-script-to-detect-the-stealthy-nation-...
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Acceptably resolving a serious vulnerability disclosure
Hypothetical scenario:
An organisation with users who rely on the service's zero knowledge cryptography has a vulnerability disclosure made to it from a research institution.
There are multiple ...
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Windows 10 Cybersecurity on Stand-Alone Computer
I have been asked to investigate what capabilities exist within Windows 10 where the environment for this system is isolated. I believe it would not be able to benefit from an enterprise security ...
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What should I do after an attempted Mozi attack?
I was testing a small webpage using Django's built-in server. The webpage simply shows the IP of the visitor of the webpage, and prints the IP address in the terminal. The server is hosted on a Ubuntu ...
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Security Tools - File Encryption vs Corruption
When security tools quarantine files, why do they tend to use encryption, rather than simple file corruption?
The main goal of quarantining a file is to make it impossible to run on a system. This ...
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What is the difference between a SOC and a CSIRT?
So, from a summary of what I have found on the internet,
a SOC collects information and the CSIRT makes conclusions based on that info.
However, from what I see in labs/challenges websites like ...
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Which key questions to ask while vetting an incident response company?
If I ever suspect a security incident exceeding internal capacity & skill sets, my plan calls for outside professionals. In choosing a specific Company, I expect to expose the company to these ...
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Clonezilla for forensic disk image
I was wondering if it's reasonable and forensically correct to use Clonezilla for the image of an attacked machine.
Since some of the commercial products are very expensive I'm turning to open source ...
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Incident Response and when to consider an incident resolved
I am currently making amendments to an IR process and the topic of incident closure has come up. The organisation follows NIST and therefore their IR process has four phases:
Preparation
Detection &...
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Can/should I automatically report network break-in attempts?
For the last 15 years I've been using SpamCop to report the spam I receive. I do this because
it sometimes results in spammers and the third-party machines they compromise getting shut down, at ...
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How to investigate potential infected client workstation
In this case a central endpoint security or SIEM solution alerts on Indicators of Compromise on one client workstation in a Windows domain.
Should there be an IT staff who has admin accounts (domain ...
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Prevent a bot accessing login page with multiple IPs and massive list of username/ passwords
For the second time my website seems to be the target of a large automated attack. It seems complex enough and very well executed. I have the following systems in place:
Captcha on 3rd failed login ...
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Where can I find an engineer who can examine an exe and verify its legitimacy? [closed]
We have an exe file that our members have been using. It was submitted to VirusTotal and it returned one red flag:
How can we have the app evaluated by a 3rd party software engineer? And how likely ...
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Do incident response plans include playbooks?
Do incident response plans include the playbooks or are the playbooks separate from the incident response plan?
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How should we respond to a root CA breach?
In the unlikely event that a root CA is breached (eg. Comodo, DigiNotar), how should people and companies respond?
(Assume the people responding practice infosec & are aware of the problems of ...
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What should I do if I'm receiving Tiktok verification code even I don't use and have deleted the application in my android device?
What should I do if I'm receiving SMS on phone giving in verification code of TikTok app despite I have deleted and no longer use the application in my Android device?
I got an international call ...
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Interpreting SSH information on Windows Event Viewer.... sshd: Did not receive identification string from ipaddress on port portnumber
I am currently reading through Windows Event Log (OpenSSH) looking at the artefacts created by an attack, I am trying to understand the meaning of certain notifications.
A brute force attack was ...
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Dealing with File Permissions from a Virtual Machine - Forensic Logical Acquisition
I am currently in the middle of operating an analysis on Autopsy of a virtual machine (VMware) that has been hacked. I have mounted the VM and I am acquiring the evidence from VMware to my physical ...
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What forensics should be collected as part of an incident response plan on Windows 10?
I am in the process of creating an IRP that responds to system hacks.
I have attacked the Windows 10 myself (victim machine), using Metasploit on Kali Linux software, where I managed to gain access ...
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How to detect backdoor/root shells?
Let's assume I'm a user with root access to a machine and I'm a legit user. My machine/server runs Linux. I'm not very familiar with defensive security (I mainly practice offensive). Sometimes, ...
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DoD 52220.22-M (3 Pass wipe) and Virtual Machines
So my place of work, if you can tell by the title is either Gov or Mil, and we recently had a tech refresh where all of our workstations were replaced with VM's. We are running version VMWare Version ...
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Alternative routes for Incident Response approach other than Windows Event Viewer?
I am in preparation of developing an Incident Response Plan for a computer that has been hacked (no malware installed, just a system hack). My plan is to analyse through Windows Event Viewer to try ...
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Volatility: Issue with analyzing Windows 10 and Server 2016 systems
I have been trying to use Volatility 2.6 to analyze memory dumps generated by DumpIt. I am experiencing an issue analyzing the memory dumps (all 4 GB in size) of two Windows 10 64 bit boxes (build ...
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Some questions regarding Red Hat Linux and a case study [closed]
As part of a course I'm doing, it's presented a case study. I'm a bit stuck and not too sure where to find further info. If someone could point me in the direction, I'd appreciate it.
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Can a forwarding rule be set on Outlook that will not be visible on office365/exchange admin interface?
In an incident concerning a user's mailbox - will any rule that forwards emails to a potential attack be visible in the office365/exchange admin interface, or is it possible to set an outlook client-...
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Incident response to a medium scale phishing attack whereas the targets are not from our company?
Our company suffered a phishing attack yesterday. While investigating about the attacker and the potential employees of ours who might have been phished, we ended up with the attacker database of ...
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Under which conditions can dllhost.exe spawn child process? | MITRE ATT&CK T1191
I was looking for conditions/circumstances under which Dllhost.exe can spawn a child process. I examined a huge quantity of event logs from various Windows system and didn't come across any event in ...
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Tools for reverse engineering malicious executables? [closed]
Are there any tools that one can reliably use for decompiling malicious executables in order to understand the inner workings of the same? Or any other reliable tool/way to quickly derive the code?
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Pure-ftpd connections from unknown IPs
I'm seeing unknown IPs in results like this in the messages log on a CentOS 6 webserver, are these IPs actually accessing the machine?
Mar 13 19:11:49 server pure-ftpd: ([email protected]) [INFO] New ...
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a mysterious & pointless long-term hacking attempt?
It seems that I am the target of a mysterious ongoing hacking attempt.
I have several domain names, most of which are currently parked & pointed at a single ‘main’ website. For the last couple ...
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Confusing terminologies: Incident, alert, event, ticket [duplicate]
I am doing research on Security orchestration and automation response (SOAR) and three above terminologies make me very confused.
We are currently following the workflow like: some security events ...
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My mail server has seemingly been compromised, but I don't know how
We have a mail server on CPanel, and we added the company email accounts from CPanel. We use outlook as the email client.
When we send emails to the procurement department, the hacker gets a copy.
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What use to automate incident response? [closed]
I am now read about TheHive Project - open source incident response platform.
Today i asked developers about automatization of incidents, and find, that TheHive can't do this.
Main feature for me is ...
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Persistent Bootable USB with Write Protection?
I am developing a series of extraction scripts (currently python 2.7) for a university project - these tools will be provided on a bootable USB for use by first responders when encountering a suspect ...
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Incident response and recovery from a security breach with unknown attack vector
Security breaches, hacks, “cyber” attacks or server compromises happen quite frequently, unfortunately, such as Quora in December 2018, Facebook in September 2018, Equifax in September 2017, Exactis ...
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Can Beehive detect a Snowden-like actor?
In a seminar, one of the Authors of Beehive: Large-Scale Log Analysis for Detecting Suspicious Activity in Enterprise Networks said that this system can prevent actions like Snowden did.
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I detected someone probing my site for weaknesses, what can I do about it? [duplicate]
My site has been getting probed by a bunch of IPs from Morroco (trying to submit forms, trying out potential URLs, trying to execute scripts etc..), I have a strong suspicion it's the same person ...
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Remote code execution and XSS vulnerabilities. What steps should be taken to secure a server once these are discovered and patched?
I've just been notified of a remote code execution vulnerability and an xss vulnerability on a site that I run. I've fixed the responsible code, but I'm wondering what steps should be taken afterwards ...
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How to recover disk image from a smartphone in "bootloop" state?
I've been playing around on data recovery from devices and so far it worked well. Now I got this new situation that I don't know how to proceed in order to put my hands on the data. My old smartphone ...
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Detection and attribution of a running attack toward US elections
Recently an attack based on booby trapped web servers was blocked by Microsoft through seizure of some of the known server names used in this attack.
This attack analysis was focused to defend US ...
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Methodology for finding existing adversary presence on network
A technology company starts small in the early 90's and, for various reasons, blows up into a multi-million dollar company in a very short time around 2013. The problem is that this company is ...
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