Snort rule update for April 27, 2021

 Cisco Talos released the latest SNORT® rule update Tuesday morning.

Today's release includes several new rules to protect against attacks from the LemonDuck threat group. Talos first discovered LemonDuck spreading cryptocurrency miners, but it has now shifted to targeting vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers to deploy ransomware.

Here's a breakdown of Tuesday's rule release:

Shared object rules	Modified shared object rules	New rules	Modified rules
6	0	6	12

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

Talos' rule release:

Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the app-detect, browser-ie, browser-other, exploit-kit, file-pdf, malware-cnc, malware-other, policy-other 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. The Snort 3 release is also here after years of development and improvements. Upgrade here.