operatingsystem:talos

DNSmessenger Malware uses DNS TXT records and PowerShell to create a backdoor for Command & Control communication

DNS was already being used for data exfiltration, but now also as a way for malware to talk to C2 servers to obtain PowerScript instructions.

This allows the attacker to use DNS communications to submit new commands to be run on infected machines and return the results of the command execution to the attacker, in a way that evades many security mechanisms and go undetected.

The infection is spread through a Word document pretending to be protected by McAfee, and asking you to Enable Content (allow macros) to be viewed.

Technical details are found here:

▻http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/03/dnsmessenger.html

#Talos
#DNS
#malware
#PowerScript

EU-funded consortium unveils border-control robot
►http://euobserver.com/22/116223

Using a €13 million grant from the European Commission’s research budget and €7 million of private funding, a consortium of researchers and private firms has after four years of work produced a functioning prototype of the “transportable autonomous patrol for land border surveillance” or “Talos.”

The unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) was demonstrated in Poland in mid-April at a military training ground in front of a hundred-or-so people, including officials from Frontex, the EU’s Warsaw-based border control agency, Polish ministers and border guards from around Europe.

#Frontex #robot #frontières

TALOS — véhicule automatique paralysant les migrants aux frontières
►http://talos-border.eu

TALOS is an international research project co-funded by the European Commission (EC) under the 7th Framework Programme in Security priority. The project is aimed at designing, implementing and field-testing a prototype of adaptable and transportable border surveillance system (Transportable Adaptable Patrol for Land Border Surveillance - TALOS).

Like existing surveillance systems, TALOS is going to use sensors allowing to detect people, vehicles and hazardous substances, crossing the unregulated land border. Innovative concept behind the project is that the sensors will be carried by unmanned vehicles having a high degree of autonomy.

This will give TALOS the advantage of cost effectiveness and surveillance capabilities not available to conventional systems based on static sensors.

TALOS project consortium is formed of experienced research teams from industry, research and academia from Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Poland, Romania, Spain and Turkey.

►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpxZ24Daxlk&feature=player_embedded