Hello, this is Misaki Kimura from Watch and Warning Group. JPCERT/CC conducted “Survey on the Establishment and Operation of CSIRTs in Japan” in the end of 2015. Following the Japanese report released in 2016, we have just released the English version of the report on JPCERT/CC website to share the outcomes with the information security community member all around the globe. Although the basis of social composition, culture, organizational constitution...
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Hi this is Sho Aoki from Watch and Warning Group. Have you ever tried “game-based learning”? Learning through games is useful since it is not only fun and easy, but also provides opportunities for thinking. It has been applied widely for educational purposes. In the area of cyber security as well, there are board games released from security vendors, and they have been conducted at schools and companies. Today I...
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Since around October 2016, JPCERT/CC has been confirming emails that are sent to Japanese organisations with a ZIP file attachment containing executable files. The targeted emails, which impersonate existing persons, are sent from free email address services available in Japan. Also, the executable files’ icons are disguised as Word documents. When the recipient executes the file, the machine is infected with malware called ChChes. This blog article will introduce characteristics...
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Hi, this is Misaki Kimura from Watch and Warning Group. Another new year has come and gone, and as I look back over about the significant security trends that took place in 2016, it is needless to mention that security threat landscape is ever evolving and increasingly complex. As a basis for what we can prepare for 2017, I’d like to review security headlines in 2016 by referring to the...
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Selamat pagi!! This is Mariko and Wataru from Watch and Warning Group. We were in Indonesia for APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) workshop and log analysis training from October 4th to 6th. This was part of JICA’s (Japan International Cooperation Agency) project on “Capacity building for Information security”, which aims to provide practical trainings for information security staff in the ASEAN region. At first we were a little nervous since we...
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In most of the targeted attack cases, often multiple computers get infected by malware, rather than just a single computer, and attackers continue compromising other computers across the network, including important servers. For this “lateral movement” purpose, password hash is often targeted. In order to enhance protection against such information theft, LSA Protection Mode for Windows 8.1 etc. and Credential Guard for Windows 10 Enterprise have been introduced. In this...
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Our previous article “Enhanced Protected Mode in Internet Explorer” (published in August 2015) introduced that running the browser with Enhanced Protected Mode in 64-bit mode is effective in the protection against attacks exploiting vulnerabilities. This entry will verify the effect of “AppContainer” against attacks, which is another function related to Enhanced Protected Mode for Windows 8 and later. AppContainer and Web Browser AppContainer is a sandbox which runs applications in...
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Hello, Taki here. This is more of an update to my previous entry: Some coordinated vulnerability disclosures in April 2016 https://blogs.jpcert.or.jp/en/2016/05/some-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosures-in-april-2016.html Towards the end of the entry, I had mentioned that we were working on upgrading our systems to get more advisories out on our JVN English site. As of May 16th, the JVN site has been updated so that we can release advisories for vulnerability reports that are directly...
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From the latter half of 2015 to 2016, there have been an increasing number of cyber attacks worldwide using Adwind, a Remote Access Tool [1]. JPCERT/CC also received incident reports about emails with this malware in its attachment. Adwind is malware written in Java language, and it operates in Windows and other OS as well. It has a variety of functions: to download and execute arbitrary files, send infected machine...
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Nice to see you! My name is Jimmy, Hajime Komaba, working at Enterprise Support Group of JPCERT/CC, a department which takes care of Nippon CSIRT Association (NCA), a community of various enterprise and organizational CSIRTs in Japan) and Council of Anti-Phishing Japan (APC). It’s been quite a while ago, but last November, I was given an opportunity to travel to the Republic of Congo with my colleague, Koichiro (Sparky) Komiyama....
