Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Snort rule update for Oct. 20, 2020

Cisco Talos released the newest set of rules for SNORTⓇ this morning.

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Tuesday's release is full of new rules protecting against various malware strains. Among them are new protections against Emotet, which is now disguising itself as a fake Windows update. There's also new coverage for the Cerber ransomware and the UPATRE 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-webkit, file-pdf, indicator-compromise, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-linux 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.