Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Snort rule update for Jan. 29, 2019

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for Jan. 29, 2019

Cisco Talos released the newest SNORT® rule set today. This release includes 63 new rules, 10 of which are shared object rules. There are also two modified rules, one of which is a shared object rule.

This release provides new coverage for the Mongo Lock ransomware, which targets accessible and unprotected MongoDB databases, as well as the Qakbot banking trojan.
There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

Talos's rule release:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-other, browser-plugins, file-flash, file-other, file-pdf, os-windows and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
You can subscribe to Talos' newest rule detection functionality for as low as $29 a year with a personal account. Be sure and see our business pricing as well here. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats.