Category: Security

[ITA] BSides Roma 2018

#BSidesRoma18
#BSidesRoma18

[4/1/2018: aggiornato indirizzo location a seguito di variazione da parte dell’organizzazione]

Il 13 Gennaio 2018 si terrà a Roma, presso il Centro Congressi di via Salaria – Dipartimento di Informatica (via Salaria 113), la prima edizione del BSides Roma. Un evento organizzato dalla community e a cui avrò il piacere di contribuire in qualità di speaker.

Il tema del mio intervento è qualcosa a cui tengo molto, ovvero l’Information Sahring: “Building an Effective Info Sharing Community”.

Nel talk cercherò di ricostruire in maniera sistematica e strutturata il lavoro fatto in questi mesi e già in parte descritto qui sul blog in una serie di post.

Sono convinto che per Roma è un’occasione importante per portare un po’ di sana “ciccia” (come si dice da queste parti) sulla scena della Security romana. Da parte mia sono davvero contento di dare il mio contributo e spero che in tanti supportino questa iniziativa partecipandovi.

Qui la ricca agenda dell’evento e qui la pagina per la registrazione.

Hack a BT Low Energy (BLE) butt plug

Butt blug - Hush by Lovesense
Butt plug – Hush by Lovesense

Few weeks ago I bought a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) butt plug to test the (in)security of BLE protocol.

This caught my attention after researchers told us that a lot of sex toys use this protocol to allow remote control that is insecure by design.

The great Simone evilsocket Margaritelli wrote a BLE scanner called BLEAH (get it on github) and a wonderful post on how to use it to hack BLE devices. I strongly suggest you to read the post before moving on. Continue reading “Hack a BT Low Energy (BLE) butt plug” →

MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – search received IoC events with Splunk [4]

This post is the fourth of a series on Threat Intelligence Automation topic.
Post 1: Architecture and Hardening of MineMeld
Post 2: Foundation: write a custom prototype and SOC integration
Post 3: Export internal IoC to the community
Post 5: Connect to a TAXII service

After having laid the foundations for building a community with the previous posts, it’s now time to make some advanced analysis of the received IoC.
In post 2 I integrated MineMeld output nodes into Splunk SOC near-real-time engine to automate SOC IoC access detection. This configuration strengthens the analysis and response capabilities of our SOC.

With this post I show you how to integrate MineMeld miners IoC events (update and withdraw of remote IoC) into Splunk engine so you can use Splunk search advanced features to have a deeper look into the IoC received from the miners.
This is also an important information for a SOC because if you have an IoC hit the first think to do is to understand where the IoC come from, if it was sent by more than one source etc

Searching for Cert-PA URL that containg PHP
Searching for Cert-PA URL that contain PHP

Continue reading “MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – search received IoC events with Splunk [4]” →

MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – export internal IoC to the community [3]

This post is the third of a series on Threat Intelligence Automation topic.
Post 1: Architecture and Hardening of MineMeld
Post 2: Foundation: write a custom prototype and SOC integration
Post 4: Search received IoC events with Splunk
Post 5: Connect to a TAXII service

After building the architecture and integrating the InfoSec feeds from italian CERT-PA into MineMeld and the near-real-time SOC engine, it’s time to put another brick to build an effective community: export internal IoC to the community in a standard format so authorized parties can get it and use them as they want.

STIX/TAXII Network
STIX/TAXII Network

The ultimate goal is to build a community that can share IoC using a standard language and a transport mechanism (STIX/TAXXI) getting data from heterogeneous sources (more integration examples in next posts) and injecting data into the community network.

So let’s start with the configuration steps. Continue reading “MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – export internal IoC to the community [3]” →

MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – foundation: write a custom prototype and SOC integration (Splunk) [2]

This post is the second of a series on Threat Intelligence Automation topic.
Post 1: Architecture and Hardening of MineMeld
Post 3: Export internal IoC to the community
Post 4: Search received IoC events with Splunk
Post 5: Connect to a TAXII service

Minemeld Integration
Minemeld Integration

On the first post of my threat intelligence automation jurney I wrote why I choosed MineMeld, the architecture implemented and the hardening steps. One of the goals is to connect MineMeld to heterogeneous external sources to get IoC (Indicators of Compromise) and integrate it into our i-SOC (Information Security Operation Center) near-real-time engine to get evidences of security events to be analyzed by i-SOC analysts.

In this post I show the foundation of the threat intelligence automation model: how I wrote a custom prototype to get the InfoSec feeds from italian CERT-PA (Public Administration – italian web site) and how I integrated these feeds into Splunk near-real-time engine.
I started with this integration because InfoSec has very good feeds (IP, URLs, domains) that are not just copy&paste from OSINT sources but are often updated and automatically analyzed to check that IoC are still “alive”.

This page and this page give you all the information needed to understand how MineMeld works, so RTFM before moving on 😉 Continue reading “MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – foundation: write a custom prototype and SOC integration (Splunk) [2]” →

MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – architecture and hardening [1]

This post is the first of a series on Threat Intelligence Automation topic
Post 2: Foundation: write a custom prototype and SOC integration
Post 3: Export internal IoC to the community
Post 4: Search received IoC events with Splunk
Post 5: Connect to a TAXII service

Last slide at my HackInBo talk (italian) was about how to automatically integrate threat intelligence feeds into our near-real-time Information Security Operation Center (i-SOC) SPLUNK engine to reduce the time spent by SOC security analysts on IoC (Indicators of Compromise) analysis.

Threat Intelligence
Threat Intelligence question from #HiB17

At the time I was testing an open source project from PaloAlto: MineMeld. It was the right choice; after extensive tests MineMeld now help me to solve the challenges I had in the past while playing with IoC coming from various threat intelligence sources: collection automation, unduplication, aging and SOC integration.

MineMeld can also share our internal IoC to the italian infosec community we are now building from the ground. We are working hard on this and I’m really confident we will succeed (want to join? DM me on twitter or in the comments). Continue reading “MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – architecture and hardening [1]” →

[ITA] HackInBo Spring Edition 2017 – Video

Di seguito il video del mio talk “L’evoluzione del SOC di una infrastruttura critica” tenuto a Maggio 2017 ad HackInBo Spring Edition 2017 (qui le slides).

Potete trovare tutti i video di questa e delle edizioni passate nella pagina youtube di HackInBo

Grazie ancora a Mario, lo staff di HiB ed agli amici di Segment per il montaggio.

The WannaCry journey from a SOC point of view – internal sinkholing of killswitch servers

[ see also: The WannaCry journey from a SOC point of view ]

In the previous post I described how our Security Operation Center managed the WannaCry news.

We also made a lot of side activities in the past hours and one of these was to implement an internal sinkholing of the killswitch servers in case some clients where infected; with a working local sinkholing we where able to avoid the ransomware spreading in case of infection.

Killswitch for WonnaCry ransomware
Killswitch for WonnaCry ransomware

How? Let me explain.

Continue reading “The WannaCry journey from a SOC point of view – internal sinkholing of killswitch servers” →

The WannaCry journey from a SOC point of view

#WCry at University of Milano-Bicocca
#WCry at University of Milano-Bicocca

[ see also: how and why we implemented local sinkholed killswitch servers ]

In the past hours a new ransomware called WannaCry (or WCry or WannaCrypt0) spread very fast on Internet and targeted a lot of public and private organizations. The ransomware make use of public exploits related to the last Shadow Brokers leak, in particular MS17-010 vulnerability that was fixed by Microsoft on March 14 (2 months ago). You can read very good tech posts here, here, here and here and I suggest you also to follow on twitter Hacker Fantastic and  Malware Tech.

Here I try to summarize my approach to the news, mainly highlighting what we did  in my company in the past months and how we monitored WCry from our SOC (Security Operation Center).

There was (and there is also now) a lot of hysteria, but for people like me that work in a SOC this is not an acceptable mood; you need to relax, really understand what’s happening and verify that what you did before is enough and, if not, apply emergency countermeasures. Continue reading “The WannaCry journey from a SOC point of view” →

[ITA] Di ritorno da HackInBo Spring Edition 2017

#HiB17
#HiB17

[ Video del mio intervento ]

Il 6 e 7 Maggio ho partecipato come relatore alla Spring Edition di HackInBo e per me sono stati tre giorni molto molto intensi e carichi di emozioni.

Prima di tutto orgogliosamente abbiamo raccolto 1700€ per i progetti della Onlus “Non Basta un Sorriso“; questo è il vero successo di questa edizione (il target prefissato era di 1200€). Kudos a Gianluca Varisco che si è trasformato in chierichetto acaro e ha raccolto le offerte da tutta la platea (quasi 500 persone). Bravi tutti!!!!

Poi i necessari ringraziamenti a Mario Anglani, instancabile organizzatore, e a tutti i ragazzi dell’organizzazione (povero Riccardo che mi ha sopportato più degli altri). Questa volta il gadget per i partecipanti era una bottiglia di birra al miele (e coordinato boccale) prodotta dal birrificio Valsusa in collaborazione con la Onlus Educatamente. Per tutti i partecipanti poi a disposizione uno stand per degustare la suddetta birra gratuitamente.

HiB beer
HiB beer

Le slides del mio intervento “L’evoluzione del SOC di un’infrastruttura critica” sono state pubblicate insieme a quelle di tutti gli altri relatori sul sito di HackInBo e le riporto anche qui di seguito.

Insieme a me hanno presentato in rigoroso ordine di apparizione 🙂 Continue reading “[ITA] Di ritorno da HackInBo Spring Edition 2017” →