Tuesday, February 28, 2012

VRT Rule Release for 02/28/2012

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 24 new rules and made modifications to 388 additional rules.

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

The VRT would like to acknowledge Jason Wallace for his submission of the following rule(s):
21475(1) "BLACKLIST USER-AGENT known malicious user-agent string core-project"

 In VRT's rule release:
Synopsis: This release adds and modifies rules in several categories. 
Details: The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the backdoor, blacklist, botnet-cnc, specific-threats and web-misc rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
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