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On May 31st, 2023 Progress issued a security notice to users of MOVEit Transfer regarding a vulnerability that allows for escalated privileges and potential unauthorized access to the environment. There is no CVE for tracking this vulnerability at this time.

Threat hunters spend a significant portion of their time searching through security logs looking for specific Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) or patterns of activity/behavior that indicate compromise.

GreyNoise is built on a strong foundation of mutual respect from our community. With that in mind we wanted to recognize community members that go above and beyond, so we created the GreyNoise Ambassador Program.

See how users search our data with the GreyNoise Query Language (GNQL) and learn tip and tricks to improve your searching skills.

At GreyNoise we recognize the value of partnership and intelligence sharing when it comes to protecting internet citizens. Today the GreyNoise Labs team wants to give a shoutout to Trinity Cyber.

GreyNoise added a number of exciting updates in April, including 20 new tags for users to monitor emerging vulnerabilities and threats, and identify benign actors. We’ve also added integration updates to support our new IP Similarity and Timeline features, and enhancements to the IP Similarity capability to improve accuracy and give users a summary view to easily understand similar IP infrastructure.

On Monday, May 1, 2023, CISA added CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2023-21839, and CVE-2023-1389 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list. For all three CVEs, GreyNoise users had visibility into which IPs were attempting mass exploitation prior to their addition to the KEV list.

Check Point Research discovered three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service, patched in April's Patch Tuesday update. The most severe, QueueJumper (CVE-2023-21554), is a critical vulnerability allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. The other two vulnerabilities involve unauthenticated remote DoS attacks.

On Friday, April 21, 2023, CISA added CVE-2023-27350 (a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability) impacting PaperCut MF and PaperCut NG to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list. PaperCut MF and PaperCut NG are both enterprise printer management software. 

GreyNoise, in conjunction with TrinityCyber, has observed active exploitation attempts using weaknesses found in CVE-2023-1389 against TP-Link Archer gigabit routers. This post provides information about a new GreyNoise tag for this activity as well as details on the exploit attempt and how organizations can keep themselves safe from harm.

GreyNoise is changing how we classify environment file crawlers from unknown intent to malicious intent. This change will result in the reclassification of over 11,000 IPs as malicious. Users who use GreyNoise’s malicious tag to block IPs based on malicious intent will see an increase in blocked IPs.

GreyNoise can help SOC teams reduce false positives by providing context to the alerts on internet-wide scanners, crawlers, and other suspicious activity that may trigger false alarms. So what can you do with ~8+ hours of your life back each week?

We recently built out a new Premium Feed for Anomali ThreatStream. Anomali customers can now pull in all malicious IPs GreyNoise has seen hitting our sensors in the past 24 hours, on a daily basis. 

GreyNoise is a powerful cybersecurity solution that provides valuable context on internet-wide scan and attack data. By collecting and analyzing this data, we help organizations distinguish between targeted attacks and background noise, reducing false positives and improving security operations efficiency and overall security outcomes for every organization that uses both our Visualizer or API. Today, we'll explore the GreyNoise integrations universe, discuss how these extensions can benefit every category of security tool and service, plus explain why both vendor flexibility and community support is essential.

Cyber threats are constantly evolving, and organizations need to stay on top of the latest techniques and tools to protect themselves against attacks. One of the most critical aspects of this is having an effective threat intel program in place. But how do you upgrade your program to keep up with the ever-changing threat landscape?

For April Fools this year, the GreyNoise team created GhostieBot, an Artificial Unintelligence bot serving you all the answers you didn’t need.

At GreyNoise, we're excited to announce that our Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is now available. We believe that everyone should have equal access to our product and service, regardless of their disabilities or abilities.

Take a deep dive into how we took our new feature IP Similarity from an idea to reality.

ChatGPT recently announced a "plugin" capability which lets their revolutionary chatbot and API reach out and touch external resources, enabling prompt engineers to — essentially — build complete, working applications. Unfortunately their examples contain an outdated component which attackers are actively exploiting in other contexts.

If you’re looking for an extremely wholesome conference to attend, look no further than PancakesCon. This conference requires speakers to talk about 2 things: (1) a brief talk about any cybersecurity topic and (2) a brief talk about something which is not IT-related. As you might imagine, this leads to some great talks!