Friday, August 17, 2012

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 08/17/2012, DistTrack, Shamoon

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 08/17/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 28 new rules and made modifications to 3 additional rules.

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

In VRT's rule release:
This release provides protection against DistTrack/Shamoon's lateral movement across the network via SMB.  

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