Thursday, September 24, 2020

Snort rule update for Sept. 24, 2020

Cisco Talos released the newest SNORTⓇ rule set this afternoon.

This release includes 14 new rules, 14 new shared object rules and 51 modified rules.

Thursday's release includes new protection against the Mekotio banking trojan, which disguises itself in a pop-up window. There is also coverage for several vulnerabilities Cisco disclosed in its IOS operating system today.


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-chrome, browser-other, file-multimedia, file-other, indicator-compromise, indicator-shellcode, malware-backdoor, malware-cnc, malware-other, malware-tools, os-linux, policy-other, protocol-dns, protocol-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
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