Thursday, August 6, 2020

Snort rule update for Aug. 6, 2020

Cisco Talos released the newest SNORTⓇ rule update this morning.

The latest release includes five new rules, 49 modified rules and nine new shared o.

Thursday's release provides expanded coverage for the vulnerabilities Cisco disclosed in its Data Center Network Manager and the AnyConnect VPN client. There's also a new rule preventing the Ursnif malware from making an outbound connection to its command and control (C2).

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 app-detect, browser-ie, browser-plugins, browser-webkit, file-identify, file-image, file-multimedia, file-office, file-other, file-pdf, indicator-shellcode, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-other, os-windows, policy-other, policy-social, protocol-dns, pua-adware, server-other and x11 rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
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