Skybox TCVM leverages ongoing intelligence of the active threat landscape produced by the Skybox Research Lab. The Lab aggregates information from more than 30 security data feeds along with research of exploits available on more than 700,000 dark web sites and validated by Skybox’s security analysts.
For example, Skybox analysts have been closely monitoring three major event categories impacting organizations today: the use of a specific, commercialized set of exploit kits, the rise of targeted client-side vulnerabilities and the continued popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) botnets.
- A small, targeted number of exploit kits are dominating the dark web. In the first part of this year, five major exploits kits dominated chatter on the dark web, targeting nearly 70 vulnerabilities in Firefox, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge, Java, Microsoft XML Services and more. These vulnerabilities are known to distribute different malware as payload — for example, popular ransom ware and banking Trojans.
- Threat actors continue to target specific vulnerabilities included in exploit dumps by hacker groups such as The Shadow Brokers. The group, notorious for allegedly leaking the National Security Agency (NSA)’s hacking tools, continues to pepper the dark web with exploit dumps like the major one on April 14 that contained many OS and server-side exploits. These dumps and targeted vulnerabilities impact web apps built with Apache Struts plus VMware, Cisco, Oracle and Microsoft products, to name just a few.
- Poor IoT security is still vulnerable. Botnets are exploiting vulnerabilities in network devices, gateways, cameras and other internet-connected devices, delivering distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks through things like the ‘HTTP Port 81 Botnet’ and the Amnesia botnet which is the next generation of Mirai malware after source code was published and shared online.
