Could be another cdn compromise.and.those malvertisements.through known
good.sites are.the issue.

Ed
On Jul 8, 2015 12:11 PM, "Jonathan Link" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, he wasn't in the office for much of the past two days, so firewall
> logs are ineffective in this instance.  It appears that the infection
> started as soon as his computer attached to the network.  Browser history
> is a good place to look, but I can't access the machine without it being
> turned on and on the network (I'm on vacation) and that would be
> counterproductive at this point.  I am hoping I can recover some of his
> data that was on the computer, but made him no promises.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Susan Bradley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> IE history
>> Firewall logs
>>
>> Should help narrow it down.
>>
>> And we have a zero day flash being patched today.  Expect a Microsoft
>> patch for Windows 8 and above.
>>
>>
>> On 7/8/2015 8:32 AM, Jonathan Link wrote:
>>
>>> No, not yet.  It's one of our directors, and he swears that the only
>>> site he visited within the last 24 hours was msn.com <http://msn.com>.
>>> So it could be the flash 0 day from an infected ad that wasn't caught?  Of
>>> course, he might not be remembering something...
>>>
>>> It started working at around 8am this morning which is when he fired up
>>> his computer in the office.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:08 AM, David McSpadden <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I know you are on vacation but do you know the attack vector?
>>>
>>>     *From:*[email protected]
>>>     <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>     [mailto:[email protected]
>>>     <mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Jonathan
>>> Link
>>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, July 08, 2015 10:43 AM
>>>     *To:* [email protected]
>>>     <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>     *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] OT: VirusScanning software
>>>
>>>     So, we just got hit with a Croptywall variant with SRP in place.
>>>  I didn't disbelieve you Susan, I was just hoping that we could
>>>     avoid infection until I got a true whitelisting solution in place.
>>>
>>>     Oh and I'm on vacation, so this is extra fun to restore backups
>>>     via the VPN.  Luckily we have other systems in place that
>>>     mitigated the extent of damage, such as really good backups, and
>>>     tested restore procedures.
>>>
>>>     On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Susan Bradley
>>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I have many consultant stories of ransomware nailing clients with
>>>     software restriction policies in place - especially the web
>>>     cocktail variants.
>>>
>>>     Applocker/whitelisting = Enterprise SKUs. Which I hardly ever see
>>>     in my space, nor does the customer base afford the time and effort.
>>>
>>>     Great if you have the budget to do it, sucks if you don't have the
>>>     licenses and infrastructure.
>>>
>>>     On 7/3/2015 11:54 AM, Jonathan Link wrote:
>>>
>>>         I was posting from my phone in a hurry, DYAC.  Software
>>>         Restriction, not proper pixies.
>>>
>>>         Susan, I haven't seen an executable run in any location that
>>>         has been blocked by SRP.  IF you have a very narrow whitelist,
>>>         it helps a lot.
>>>
>>>         On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Jonathan Link
>>>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             You can also use proper pixies to restrict where software
>>>             can run. I've blocked the user profile folder and added an
>>>             exception for the desktop and a couple of other places
>>>             that I can't recall. Users have to move downloaded apps to
>>>             ther desktop to install. I haven't had a Cryptowall
>>>             infection in 2 years.
>>>
>>>             On Friday, July 3, 2015, Susan Bradley
>>>             <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                 It changes so fast that as soon as they do the bad
>>>                 guys code up something new.
>>>
>>>                 there's no silver bullet here.
>>>
>>>                 Silverlight/flash/java. Use it,patch it or lose it.
>>>
>>>                 Web filtering at the firewall.  If your firewall
>>>                 doesn't provide web filtering/UTM options it's time to
>>>                 upgrade.  Home users look at OpenDNS (yes even now
>>>                 that Cisco is buying them)
>>>
>>>                 Filter attachments/zips.
>>>
>>>                 Least priv/non admin.
>>>
>>>                 Block the app location (yes this impacts firefox and
>>>                 office installs)  Google foolishit for non domain or
>>>                 cryptolocker group policy toolkit
>>>
>>>                 Education to your users that that email you got isn't
>>>                 a legit email.
>>>
>>>                 On 7/3/2015 10:09 AM, David McSpadden wrote:
>>>
>>>                     Quick, anyone know of a VirusScanning software
>>>                     that is catching CryptoWall 3.0 yet?
>>>
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>>>
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