Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 01/06/2015

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 01/06/2015

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 66 new rules and made modifications to 14 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

Talos would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions, their rules are included in the Community Ruleset:

Yaser Mansour
32956
32957
32958

Talos's rule release:
Synopsis: Talos is aware of a vulnerability affecting products from Microsoft Corporation. 
Details: CVE-2015-0002: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows that may lead to an escalation of privilege. Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 32965 through 32966. 
Talos has also added and modified multiple rules in the blacklist, deleted, file-identify, file-office, file-other, indicator-compromise, malware-backdoor, malware-cnc, malware-other, malware-tools, os-linux, os-windows, policy-other, protocol-dns and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

In order to subscribe now to Talos's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at https://www.snort.org/products. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!