Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 04/21/2015

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 04/21/2015

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 44 new rules and made modifications to 5 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
34137
34144
34145
34146

Talos's rule release:
Talos is aware of a vulnerability affecting products from Microsoft Corporation
and Adobe.

Details:
Microsoft Security Advisory:
A publicly exploited vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player affecting
Microsoft Windows versions prior to Windows 8.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this
release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 34178 through 34179.

Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-ie, browser-other,
file-flash, file-pdf, malware-cnc, os-other, os-windows, pua-adware and
server-other 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!