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.

Snort rule update for Jan. 24, 2019

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for Jan. 24, 2019

The latest SNORTⓇ  rule set is here from Cisco Talos. This release includes 12 new rules and 17 new shared object rules, along with six modified rules, none of which are shared object rules.

In this release, Talos provides coverage for several vulnerabilities that Cisco recently disclosed in some of its products, including WebEx Teams and the RV series of wireless routers.

Time for a change

To the Snort community,

It’s been 20 years since that fateful December night when I sent the first release of Snort over to Ken Williams at PacketStorm.  It was my first attempt at working on an open source project and another step for me in the process of learning about security tools, their application and the reasons they work and don’t work.  Almost exactly two years later, Snort was something of a phenomenon and I decided to try to make it my day job by founding Sourcefire and “going pro.”  Here we are now, 20 years down the road with over 100 releases of Snort under our belt — the global standard for describing and detecting network-based threats. 

In 2013, Sourcefire was acquired by Cisco, and Snort became the foundation for Cisco’s core NGFW and NGIPS products. Last year, Snort 3 entered beta, and the integration work is underway by our NGFW team to make it the future of Cisco’s platform.

This has been an amazing journey and I can’t help but be proud of everything that has been accomplished and all the people who made it happen, both within the organization that I serve as well as from the open source community that grew up around Snort.  After Sourcefire was acquired by Cisco, I stepped into the Chief Architect role for the Security Business Group and worked on the technology strategy and design for the company’s security portfolio and evangelized our approach to the world. 

Now, after five years with Cisco, it’s time for me to move on to the next adventure and also move from being on the team the behind Snort to the user community that surrounds it. 

Taking this big step away from Snort doesn’t worry me because I know that we’ve built not just world-class technology, but also a world-class team here at Cisco and still, even after all this time, one of the best security communities in the world.  I expect that will continue with me over *here* instead of over *there,* if you take my meaning. 

Snort’s in great hands at Cisco with a team that’s committed to open source and big plans for the future of the technology. Russ Combs, who has written a vast majority of the code for Snort 3 (it’s awesome, check it out — we need beta feedback!), will remain as the lead developer. Joel Esler will continue as Community Manager and maintain the bridge between the team and the open source community.

I’ll be blogging periodically on Medium as I move on to my next adventure. If you’re interested, my inaugural post to talk a little more about the journey so far is available here.

Thanks to all of you for everything that you have done to help make my little “rainy days and weekends” obsession into what it has become. This entire journey has been an amazing testament to the power of the open source methodology of software developed for and by communities to innovate and drive technology that everyone wants to use. Without this passionate, engaged community I know that Snort would have been nothing. Again, thank you all so much!


-Marty
January 2019

Snort rule update for Jan. 22, 2019

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for Jan. 22, 2019

Cisco Talos just released the newest SNORTⓇ  rule set. This release includes 46 new rules and 11 modified rules, none of which are shared object rules.

This release provides coverage for a heap overflow vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Pro and new malware variants from the Rocke APT, known for their cryptocurrency miners.

Snort blog post for Jan. 17, 2019

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for Jan. 17, 2019

The newest SNORTⓇ  rule set is here from Cisco Talos. This release includes 35 new rules and three modified rules, none of which are shared object rules.

This release provides coverage for several malware families, including a new variant of Bitter remote access tool and the FlawedGrace RAT.

Snort rule update for Jan. 15, 2019

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for Jan. 15, 2019

Cisco Talos released the newest SNORTⓇ rule set today. In this release, we introduced 22 new rules, six of which are shared object rules. There are also 11 modified rules, including two shared object rules.

This release provides coverage for a series of malware families, including WindTail — which has shown the ability to avoid detection by antivirus software, and a variant of MuddyWater that's recently been deployed by the Seedworm group.

Snort OpenAppID Detectors have been updated

An update has been released today for the Snort OpenAppID Detector content. This release, build 308, includes:

• A total of 2,833 detectors. 
• It also includes some additional detectors that came in from the open source community. For more details on which contributions were included, we have added them in the AUTHORS file in this package.

Available now for download from our downloads page, we look forward to you downloading and using the new features of 2.9.12.0's OpenAppID preprocessor and sharing your experiences with the community.

The OpenAppID community has a mailing list specifically dedicated to the exchange and discussion of detector content.  Please visit the mailing lists page to sign up.

Snort rule update for Jan. 10, 2019

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for Jan. 10, 2019

Cisco Talos released the newest SNORTⓇ rule set today. In this release, we introduced 19 new rules, none of which are shared object rules. There are also 56 modified rules.

This release continues to provide coverage for a slew of bugs that Adobe reported in Acrobat and Reader earlier this month. It also includes new protection against the UPPERCUT backdoor, most recently seen in the wild being used by APT10.

Snort 2.9.11.0 end-of-life reminder

This is a reminder that SNORTⓇ version 2.9.11.0 will be shut down tomorrow, Jan. 10.

We first notified users that this version of Snort was reaching its end of life in October as the number of users began to wane. We encouraged everyone to update to the latest version of Snort to avoid any service interruptions.

We are working on revising Snort’s end-of-life policy for other versions going forward. We will begin to shut down versions of Snort that make up 10 percent or less of our downloads or superseded versions have been around for five years, which ever comes first. We will release more details about this in the future.

Snort.org and the Documentation Saga: A Survey

Cisco users with Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) on an Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) are running SNORTⓇ, our open-source intrusion protection system, under the hood, along with a suite of other Talos-fueled security processes. Snort monitors traffic by sniffing packets and comparing their contents against tens of thousands of rules written to find all kinds of malware and other malicious activity. Our analysts are constantly creating new rules to cover vulnerabilities in a wide range of products. The highly active open-source community around Snort adds rules for general and niche network configurations, as well.