Installing Nessus Pro on Kali Linux

You can deploy Nessus in a range of ways, from direct install through to using a cloud-based deployment or virtual appliance.

A common reason for deploying on Kali or other distro rather than using the virtual appliance is for mobility, ease of use but also you might want to VPN or proxy traffic.

The install process is simple, log into your account on tenable community portal and download the relevant installation package.

Education

Passive Port Scanners & Internet Asset Discovery Platforms

Useful for a range of defensive and offensive purposes, internet asset search platforms enable a range of activities from:

Research & Trend Analysis
Vulnerability Hunting
Attack Surface Mapping
OSINT

Each has its own interfaces, features, dataset sand styles.

I’ve put together a list of the most popular, there may be more that I haven’t listed.

Threat Intel

CVE-2022-26134 – Confluence Zero Day RCE

We are seeing active exploitation in the wild: MIRAI deployment, coinminer deployments etc.

THIS DOES SHOW IN THE ACCESS LOGS! The comment about “what isn’t in the logs” is about POST request BODY not showing in them, not that nothing is logged

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/5d2530b809fd069f97b30a5938d471dd2145341b5793a70656aad6045445cf6d/community

XMRIG, KINSING, MIRAI etc. are being deployed by threat actors after exploiting this vulnerability.

This is a fast publish

POC is in the wild: https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2022/06/02/active-exploitation-of-confluence-cve-2022-26134/

https://github.com/jbaines-r7/through_the_wire

keep checking vendor guidance and keep checking this for updates… use at own risk etc.

Workaround/Hotfixes have been published by Atlassian:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-advisory-2022-06-02-1130377146.html

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-79000

GreyNoise Tag is online: GreyNoise Trends

Also check this out for scanners: GreyNoise

Nice work https://twitter.com/_mattata and all the other people in the cyber community that are working on this!

IT MAY BE WISE TO ASSUME BREACH

The vulnerability appears to be in: xwork-1.0.3-atlassian-10.jar

Background

Velocity discovers a zero-day in confluence 03/06/2022 (GMT)

.@Volexity discovers zero-day exploit impacting all current versions of Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center. Attackers deploy in-memory Java implant to evade detection. Read more in our latest blog post: https://t.co/aCSwnSUfj8 #DFIR #ThreatIntel #InfoSec
— Volexity (@Volexity) June 2, 2022

Guides

Cyber Essentials – Out of the Box

New machines means it’s easy right?

Ok, another post on cyber essentials! I talk about this quite a lot (mainly driven by procurement requirements rather than orgs expressing a deep desire to “have better security” (which is a shame)) however, I want to show people what the real world is like and that meeting cyber essentials is a good thing, but also to look at real world challenges of meeting the standards. In this post we look at some thought provoking questions, then we look at an out of the box Windows and MAC device to see if they meet the standard!

Guides

Adding a removing the mark of the web via…

A quick post becuase this is useful for security control testing:

If you want to enable MOTW (mark of the web) on a file you can run the following PowerShell cmdlet:

Set-Content -Path '.\safe3.rtf' -Stream Zone.Identifier -Value '[ZoneTransfer]','ZoneId=3'

This will set the alterate data stream (ADS) Zone.Identifier value to ZoneID=3 (Internet Zone)

You can unblock this with

Defence

Office Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) Vulnerability “Follina”

This is a fast publish!

Confirmed all Office (ISO Install/PRO and 365) when using the Rich Text Format (RTF) method.

Office 365 has some sort of patch against the .DOCX format.

oh dear….
Windows 11 (not 100% up to date from APRIL)
Office 365 (should be fully patched)

.RTF

MSDT Exploit! pic.twitter.com/M2Xn1TxANX
— MrR3b00t | #StandWithUkraine #DefendAsOne (@UK_Daniel_Card) May 31, 2022

WGET Execution

Guides

Wireguard Client for Linux on KALI

So as always there are a million things in tech and well it’s rare that someone knows EVERYTHING. I must connect to a Wireguard VPN from a KALI VM. Should be simple, well actually it was a bit more complicated as I had two errors along the way!

Education

The CYBER GANG Cookbook

Volume 1

Introduction

I am sitting here, and I need another cup of tea, but I thought I’d start to have a think about what common “CYBER GANGS” look like. This isn’t criminal or non-criminal. But you know there’s some commonality between both. I thought this was fun little thinking exercise to show the duality of life, what digital worlds look like but also to give a glimpse into the mysteryious (its not!) world of cyberz (including crime!)

Defence

The Challenges of Cyber Essentials Audit and Compliance Activities

It’s “only” essential but it can be bloody difficult!
mRr3b00t

Cyber Essentials Areas

Cyber Essentials is a minimum baseline standard for ensuring foundational cyber security considerations and controls are in place. It’s a good starting point, but by no means should it be “THE GOAL” and just because it has “Essentials” in its name, don’t think it’s easy to comply with. Whilst the standard isn’t outlandish with its requirements in the main, the reality between technical capabilities and being able to discover, audit and remediate security configurations in organisations is often nowhere near as simple as someone may tell you. The news here is that the standard has been extended to include some wider areas.

Hacking

How to Crack NTHASH (commonly referred to as NTLM)…

Ok imagine this, you have got access to a file server and behold you find an unsecured, unencrypted backup of a domain controller (this isn’t made up I find these in networks sometimes!) and you yoink the NTDS.dit (or maybe it’s just a workstation SAM/SYSTEM file), you extract the hashes but now what, you need to crack those bad boys!

Check out the MS docs on how NT or LM Hashes are computed(hashed)! – (thanks @ANeilan for spotting my mistake!)

[MS-SAMR]: Encrypting an NT or LM Hash | Microsoft Docs