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In a new research paper published on the last day of 2019, a team of American and German academics has shown that field-programmable gate array (FPGA) cards can be abused to launch better and faster Rowhammer attacks.
The new research expands on previous work into an attack vector known as Rowhammer.
A short history of... |
The Bradley Files were originally made public in October 2016, by unknown persons claiming to be part of the hacking collective known as “Anonymous.” Two twitter accounts @AnonymousGlobo and @AnPoland took credit for the document release.
Some private security firms, such as ThreatConnect, have noted that the @AnPoland... |
This is hardly the first time cybercriminals used Facebook to spread spam and malware. As anti-spammers became vigilant with these techniques, these spammers keep up and think of different ways to spread dangerous links to malicious websites. Sample seen recently uses a revived technique: make the email look like it ca... |
OWASP ZSC is an open source obfuscated code generator tool in Python which lets you generate customized shellcodes and convert scripts to an obfuscated script.
Shellcodes are small codes in Assembly language which could be used as the payload in software exploitation. Other usages are in malware, bypassing antivirus so... |
Microsoft has fixed vulnerabilities in four separate services of its Azure cloud platform, two of which could have allowed attackers to perform a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack — and thus potentially execute remote code execution — even without authentication to a legitimate account, researchers have found.
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The malware that surfaced during the Winter Olympics and disrupted the opening ceremony has reappeared on the scene. Seemingly designed to suggest that China or North Korea could be responsible, Olympic Destroyer malware is believed to be the work of a Russian hacking group. Now it appears the group is targeting financ... |
For any kind of company or business, there is the POS software to always help out. The Point of Sale system is a type or computer based system designed in managing and increasing the sale of retail products. The term used for the system is the associated to the term Point of Sale wherein a product or commodity is sold ... |
The United States Cyber Command warned that cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in Outlook email client, trying to introduce malware into government networks.This is a vulnerability CVE-2017-11774, discovered in 2017 and fixed by Microsoft in October of the same year. This bug allows going beyond the Outlook sandbox... |
Information on five unpatched flaws in Microsoft Windows, including four believed to be high risk, has been published by security researchers working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).
The first three of these zero-day flaws—tracked as CVE-2020-0916, CVE-2020-0986, and CVE-2020-0915—could let a hacker to int... |
Opera before 11.51 allows remote attackers to cause an insecure site to appear secure or trusted via unspecified actions related to Extended Validation and loading content from trusted sources in an unspecified sequence that causes the address field and page information dialog to contain security information based on t... |
Definition: The word Sniffer refers to an attack method that can be directed at information infrastructures. The vector, once established, eavesdrops on the target’s information. The method can include monitoring software or a combination of both software and hardware. Among the more sophisticated programs detected to ... |
A variant of the Satan ransomware recently observed includes exploits to its arsenal and targets machines leveraging additional flaws.
Experts at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new variant of the Satan ransomware that includes new exploits to its portfolio and leverages additional vulnerabilities to infect as many m... |
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|January 14, 2013 11:45 AM EST||
ABINGDON, England, January 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Attackers created unique, highly-flexible malware to steal data and geopolitical intelligence from target victims' computer systems, mobile phones and enterprise network equipment
Today Kaspersky Lab published a new r... |
Download HijackThis. Extract it to its own folder. Then run it and select. Do system scan and save log. Post the contents of the log that pops up.
That should get us going.
Also, go ahead and do this.
Download smitRem.exe (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/resources/link240.html), saving the file to your desktop. Double ... |
Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is an open source tool for network exploration and security auditing. Nmap uses raw IP packets to determine hosts available on a network, host services (applications) and host OS. type of packet filters/firewalls are in use and other characteristics.
Nmap is useful for routine tasks such as netw... |
cnet News has an article about a new type of trojan that waits until an infected user logs into their bank account and then activates to transfer money out of the account. Password stealing trojans used to be the big concern (and probably still are an important threat). However, this new bread of trojan can defeat enha... |
Quite a few vulnerabilities inside the printing software has led to a string of cyberattacks from all around the world.
When you’ve got used Home windows’ Print Spooler software not too long ago, you possibly can be the sufferer of a hack. A brand new report, from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, has discovered that cyber... |
The BianLian ransomware gang, which emerged in mid-2021, has shifted its focus to pure data extortion according to a recent analysis by cybersecurity firm Check Point Research (CPR). The group is known for attacking organizations in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, as well as for using a unique attack meth... |
Yes, one of GuardedID®'s security features is “Clickjack warning.”
Clickjacking is a type of cyber threat whereby an invisible link or button containing malicious code can be placed over a legitimate link or button on any website without the user’s knowledge. This malicious link could also appear as a non-threatening l... |
Application Security Resources
Sub Text of Application Security Resources
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By Zamir Paltiel, August 2012
A vulnerability in the .Net Request Validation mechanism allows bypassing the filter and execution of malicious scripts in the browsers of users via Cross Site Scripting attacks.
The exploitati... |
Multitun is a tunnel that encrypts connections and sends them bulk over a web socket, which is a web standard. So firewalls that ensure the expected protocol is running on the allowed port, will just pass it through as being compliant with HTML. Is there anything a firewall or filtering system can do to detect this kin... |
Simply put, WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an open-source project that provides most browsers with a feature that allows voice, video chat, and P2P sharing to occur without any additional extensions or add-ons being used.
WebRTC is usually pretty useful, but it can be detrimental to your online privacy if you ... |
the TJ Maxx Data Security Fiasco
Lessons for Auditors
By Gary G. Berg, Michelle S. Freeman, and Kent
AUGUST 2008 - In
January 2007, TJX Companies, Inc. (TJX), the parent company of
retail chains such as T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, issued a press
release announcing that its computer systems had been breached
and that custo... |
Editor’s note: The original name for the malware, EvilQuest, has been changed due to a legitimate game of the same name from 2012. The new name, ThiefQuest, is also more fitting for our updated understanding of the malware.
The ThiefQuest malware, which was discovered last week, may not actually be ransomware according... |
The Changing Image of Cyber Warfare
In this briefing, we look at the public perception of cyber warfare, how it has changed in the past 5 years and what these changes indicate from a forecasting perspective.
The concept of warfare wrought through computer systems is decades old and has captured the public imagination s... |
Facebook's 'View As' Breach
On Friday September 28th, Facebook announced that a vulnerability in one of ifs lesser known features had been discovered and abused by attackers. Media reports about the breach have been somewhat sensationalist. In this briefing we will take a look at what happened, how the issue was mitiga... |
A couple of common questions that arise whenever cyberpropaganda and hacktivism issues come up: who engages in it? Where do the people acquire the tools, skills, and techniques used? As it turns out, in at least one case, it comes from the traditional world of cybercrime. We’ve come across a case where a cybercriminal ... |
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[GLSA-200405-18] Buffer Overflow in Firebird Vulnerability Scan
Vulnerability Scan Summary
Buffer Overflow in Firebird
Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Test
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200405-18
(Buffer Overflow i... |
Token Stealing with Windows Update KB4054518
On a Windows system, there are various user accounts, some are default to Windows and some are created explicitly. Some of the default user accounts are Local Service, Network Service and so on. Apart from user accounts there are also groups like Users, Everyone etc.
Using A... |
Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting gamers and their online accounts with new malware called BloodyStealer, Kaspersky says.
Last March, analysts at the cybersecurity giant discovered communications exchanged around BloodyStealer, a malware capable of stealing passwords, taking screenshots, and absorbing cookies o... |
- Sep 2, 2021
First observed in 2019 and advertised (Figure 1) as a ‘Malware-as-a-Service’ (MaaS) threat on various cybercriminal forums, Raccoon is an information stealer targeting victim credentials and cryptocurrency wallets.
Seemingly favored by some threat actors due to its simplicity, the malware element of Racco... |
US denounces massive cyberattack sponsored by China
In a joint advisory, cybersecurity authorities in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand warned of a malicious “group of activities” associated with “a cyber- state-sponsored actor of the People’s Republic of China, also known as Volt Typ... |
Who Is “Whois”?
Was North Korea behind the cyberattack on the South?
Another set of cyberattacks against the Republic of Korea and the first to be blamed is the DPRK. Computers at two major television networks stopped working and their websites were taken offline. A cable channel experienced similar problems. Three ban... |
It's a known fact that once your market share is big enough, the bad guys are going after you. Used to be that viruses and malware were only developed for Windows, but when Apple got to be a significant presence on the desktop...voila! There was specific malware developed for the Apple OSen.
Well, looks like KnowBe4 ha... |
Cite as: Ulčar, M., & Robnik-Šikonja, M. (2021). <i>FinEst BERT</i>. Center of Estonian Language Resources. https://doi.org/10.15155/9-00-0000-0000-0000-0021CL
FinEst BERT is a trilingual BERT-like (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) language representation model. It was trained on Finnish, Estoni... |
Kaspersky Labs discovered a new piece of malware, dubbed Mokes, first in January this year. This backdoor has variants cross operating systems, including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, written in C++ using Qt, a cross-platform application framework.
This backdoor specializes in capturing audio-video, obtaining keystrokes... |
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in KnFTP 1.0.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string to the (1) USER, (2) PASS, (3) REIN, (4) QUIT, (5) PORT, (6) PASV, (7) TYPE, (8) STRU, (9) MODE, (10) RETR, (11) STOR, (12) APPE... |
Kali Linux is a powerful and widely used penetration testing platform that provides a plethora of tools for ethical hackers, security professionals, and enthusiasts. VirtualBox, a free and open-source virtualization software, allows users to run multiple operating systems on a single machine.
This guide will walk you t... |
A new mobile malware family, dubbed GnatSpy, that may be a much more dangerous variant of the earlier VAMP malware, has been reported in the wild.
Trend Micro believes the threat group APT-C-23, which was behind VAMP, has been developing GnatSpy with components and capabilities that are very similar to VAMP, but with s... |
Yes, even Smart bulbs are smart enough to steal data!
Security researchers have adamant that even smart bulbs are suitable for secret data extrusion from personal devices. It can leak multimedia preferences by recording their luminance patterns from afar.
Light bulbs as light sources have now turned into an attack surf... |
U.S. military forces will be challenged in all warfighting domains should conflict break out, according to a Pacific Air Forces general. One of those domains may already be the site of an ongoing fight.
Maj. Gen. John Shasteen, USAF, mobilization assistant to the commander, U.S. Pacific Air Forces, told the luncheon au... |
Data Breach Summary
In a recent security breach detected by InsecureWeb, the popular social networking platform BlackPlanet fell victim to a cyber attack. The breach, known as “blackplanet 12-2023 leaked by #NinjaDefender,” occurred on an undisclosed date but was detected by our vigilant monitoring system on December 1... |
Top 10 Malware February 2018
The MS-ISAC observed a 19% decrease in new malware infections from January to February 2018. Kovter activity increased in February, accounting for 59% of the Top 10 Malware notifications. Every month the MS-ISAC maps the Top 10 Malware observed from monitoring state and local networks to co... |
A group of high professional hackers called Suckfly is targeting organizations in India, according to the experts at Symantec the crew conducted long-term espionage campaigns against the country.
Symantec did not disclose the names of the targeted organizations, it only revealed that the list of the victims includes on... |
A new variant of the Welchi RPC worm was found on February 12th, 2004.
This variant is functionally quite similar to the original virus. It copies itself on the infected system as SVCHOST.EXE.
The worm contains links to several security patches and will try to install them. Welchi.B will also try to remove Mydoom.
It m... |
North Korea is a lot in the news recently, and all for not so good reasons. The reports of the country performing cyber-attacks against South Korean Bitcoin exchanges are coming in.
The Cyber Warfare Research Centre reportedly stated that at least one of the country’s Bitcoin exchange became the target of a hacking att... |
Wire communications are expensive to establish restrict end user to one particular locale. On the other hand, wireless communications allow people connecting quickly and conveniently, but insecure for communication. In wireless connection the mobile data is opposed to several attempted from unauthorized person to modif... |
(1) debian/postrm and (2) debian/localepurge.config in localepurge
before 0.7.3.2 use tempfile to create a safe temporary file but
appends a suffix to the original filename and writes to this new
filename, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a
symlink attack on the new filename.
Note:References ar... |
At this workshop, we will go over tools named Nmap and Zenmap. These tools are used to perform a scan on a machine in order to find open ports as well as running services. Please have Kali Linux installed on your machine. If you do not have it, we have some USBs that have Kali installed on them for live booting. The ev... |
Adversaries may deploy malicious software to systems within a network using application deployment systems employed by enterprise administrators. The permissions required for this action vary by system configuration; local credentials may be sufficient with direct access to the deployment server, or specific domain cre... |
A vulnerability has been reported in Explzh, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to the application loading an executable file in an insecure manner and can be exploited by tricking a user into e.g. opening a ZIP or LZH file located on a remote SMB s... |
Despite challenges with lack of resources and aging infrastructure, North Korea is committed to developing cyber warfare capabilities, according to a report published by HP last week.
The United States and other countries have placed embargoes and sanctions against North Korea for its hostility and for violating its ci... |
MAC Address spoofer
A brief introduction to MAC address. Its the address your network adapter used to communicate with the router, a layer deeper before IP address. It actually tells the router which network adapter to direct the traffic to, so MAC address is also known as physical address.
The last 3 bytes of MAC addr... |
If you have an ordinary user account,there is a very simple method to get the NT Administrator account:
One of: first c:\winnt\system32 under logon. the scr was renamed as logon. old backup Then put the usrmgr. exe renamed to logon. scr
the logon. the scr is loaded at startup of the program after the reboot, do not app... |
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According to the recent Clusit Report relating to 2022, hacker attacks in Italy have grown by 169% and the trend does not seem to be rosy for this 2023. The Clusit Report is drawn up annually by the Italian Association for IT Security.
An alarmin... |
JPA and REST commands are used in the Java EE addon but could perform differently when using another technology (like Spring Boot, for example).
JPA: In Spring Boot, there is no persistence.xml, but an application.properties file that contains the necessary information.
REST: Even though JAX-RS is not used, the generat... |
I installed Kali Linux OS on my hard disk and set nothing as username and password. Now at the time of login it ask for
localhost username and password. I tried
toor as default but didn’t worked for me.
I had the same issue. However I did remember entering a password and most default username for Debain flavors are roo... |
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is a highly robust and secure operating system designed to meet the demanding needs of modern businesses. However, a recent vulnerability has been identified, known as CVE-2023-35643, which raises concerns about information disclosure.
CVE-2023-35643 is an information disclosure vulnerabil... |
Modern EW Systems Require Efficient RF Power Management
One aspect of electronic warfare (EW) that is a constant challenge is keeping up with the ever-increasing sophistication and persistence of threat radars. For example, today’s threat radar detection systems must quickly determine whether or not the target is real ... |
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Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting-based techniques for localization are a promising approach for ubiquitous positioning systems, particularly indoors. By finding unique fingerprints of RF signals received at different locations within a predefined area beforehand, whenever a similar fingerprint i... |
A serializable mapping in the Java programming language of an SQL
value. Assuming the Java object implements the
interface, this class simply wraps the serialization process.
If however, the serialization is not possible because the Java object is not immediately serializable, this class will attempt to serialize all n... |
The SNMP Amplification DDoS (SAD) attack saturates a target’s link with a stream of distributed UDP packets.
The SNMP Amplification distributed denial of service (DdoS) attack, or SAD, has been in circulation for some time and has been demonstrated within the security community. In 2007, Daniel Mende and Enno presented... |
Lazarus grouping is suspected of stealing payment card data of customers in the USA and Europe
Sansec specialists reported a large-scale malicious campaign to steal payment card data from customers of large retailers in the US and Europe. In fraudulent activities that researchers suspected the Lazarus group (also known... |
In a shell,
$$ refers to the process id (PID) of the current running process. For example, when used inside a shell script, it would return the process id of the running script. Similarly, when used inside a terminal (e.g.
echo $$), it would return the process id of the current shell (as the current running process in ... |
A new vulnerability that enables an attacker to obtain sensitive user information has been discovered in Jira which is a popular system for bug tracking, interacting with users and project management.
The information disclosure vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-14181, has a CVSS score of 5.3 and was first found by Pos... |
Although the market share of Nginx and LightHttpd in web server has been increasing in recent years, Apache is still on top in this field, and the majority of web applications on the Internet are still running on the Apache Httpd.
Our concern about the security of web server is twofold: whether the web server itself is... |
Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to, ect.
modify phone state
Allows the application to control the phone features of the devic... |
A malware program with data wiping functionality that was recently used to attack Sony Pictures Entertainment bears technical similarities to destructive malware that affected organizations in South Korea and the Middle East in the past.
Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab, Symantec and Blue Coat Systems independen... |
It is indeed a scan code and for many keyboards it is the scan code for the NumLock key.
The example code attached to the documentation of
keybd_event is an example of how to toggle the NumLock state. And so naturally 0x45 is used as the scan code. My guess is that lots of the other examples that you found simply copie... |
Reporter Souhardya Sardar
`Affected Product: Fortinet Installer Client 5.6 for Windows PC
Credit: Souhardya Sardar and Rohit Bankoti
Contact : github.com/Souhardya
Fortinet Installer contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targe... |
127 - Pascom RCE, AutoWarp, and a GKE Container Escape
A nice chain leading to unauthenticated RCE, a path traversal leading to server-side request forgery, used to hit the application’s API from localhost and leak administrative credentials, then an unescaped argument in a privileged-off task for command injection.
Pa... |
Like a bad penny, the notorious Kronos banking Trojan has turned up again after disappearing from the threat landscape for well more than a year.
Security vendor Proopoint this week said it had recently observed a new variant of Kronos being used in separate campaigns against users in Germany, Japan, and Poland. A four... |
Also known as: Trojan.Zeroaccess.B, Trojan.Zeroaccess.C, Trojan.Zeroaccess!inf4, max++
Severity scale: (47 / 100)
- Trojan.ZeroAccess is a Trojan horse that hides itself in the system with the help of the advanced ZeroAccess rootkit. Mostly, this trojan is used to open the backdoors of the compromised PC, download malw... |
If you discover a vulnerability, we would like to know about it so we can take steps to address it as quickly as possible. Please submit your findings here URL: https://app.zerocopter.com/en/rd/ef47f8a9-d353-4e24-b271-be96c4d4add5 and follow these rules we have set up:
- Report the vulnerability as quickly as is reason... |
66% of the world's phishing came from one group
A single criminal group was responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of last year. Busy bees, eh? Apparently, this operation are responsible for a two-fold increase in the crime too.
The Avalanche gang are believed to have formed from the ashe... |
Indicating a campaign of massive scale, at least 20 new phishing domains targeting more than 60 universities in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States have cropped up, bent on lifting credentials from students heading back to school.
The domains are associated with a group o... |
A group of hackers speaking Russian and using Russian servers, are out hunting for American companies' user credentials, an exclusive story published on The Epoch Times claims.
This group, allegedly not tied to any government and basically operating on its own, is targeting 'at least' 85 companies, including Amazon, Am... |
Cisco Spots New NTP Bugs
Cisco has identified six new vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) which could allow cyber-criminals to craft DDoS attacks or prevent the correct time being set.
The Talos team explained in a blog post that it was responsibly disclosing the bugs after having coordinated fixes with ... |
Past and Present Iran-linked Cyber-Espionage Operations
Iranian hackers intensify their cyber operations
Security experts and intelligence agencies are observing a significant intensification of the cyber espionage campaigns linked to Iran-based hackers.
A few days ago, security researchers at Palo Alto Networks had un... |
As multi-factor authentication continues to be prioritized for security, evolving ways of bypassing MFA are born. Social engineering techniques are far from new, in fact, social engineering dates back to 1894 when Dutch industrialist J.C. Van Marken coined the term.
Social Engineering relies on confusing victims in ord... |
What is SamSam Ransomware?
SamSam ransomware is a type of malware, its key objective is to get into an organization. After getting in, it waits and gathers a lot of data. In the meantime, the cybercriminal gains access to systems and then copies the malware/ransomware onto other systems. When the cybercriminal feels th... |
This mass-mailing worm sends itself to all the addresses in Windows Address Book.
The message has the following characteristics:
Subject : [Infected computer's name] is comming!
Attachment : pp.exe (10,748 bytes..
I-Worm.Win32.PetLil.B is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all contacts in Microsoft Outlook Addres... |
[原文]Accellion FTP server prior to version FTA_9_12_220 uses the Accusoft Prizm Content flash component, which contains multiple parameters (customTabCategoryName, customButton1Image) that are vulnerable to cross-site scripting.
[原文]Accellion FTP server prior to version FTA_9_12_220 only returns the username in the serv... |
Security researchers reveal previously unknown malware used by the cyber espionage hacking group ‘POLONIUM,’ threat actors who appear to target Israeli organizations exclusively.
According to ESET, POLONIUM uses a broad range of custom malware against engineering, IT, law, communications, marketing, and insurance firms... |
In its third annual Worst Malware List, the cybersecurity firm examined the biggest cyber threats that year and ranked them according to their severity.According to Webroot, phishing and remote desktop protocol violations are still the main ways that cybercriminals have launched their attacks. However, new malware stra... |
New malware strain IcePick-3PC has the ability to obtain IP addresses through third-party tools used by websites. Multiple e-commerce businesses and publishers in the retail and healthcare fields have already been affected. The malware was first picked up in a phishing campaign that was offering Amazon and Walmart gift... |
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The "SAP Fiori Login Panel - Detect" module is designed to detect the presence of the SAP Fiori login panel. SAP Fiori is a user interface technology developed by SAP for its business applications. This module focuses on identifying the log... |
Recorded Future, a US security firm, revealed a cyber espionage campaign linked to a suspected Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group, named RedFoxtrot. Recorded Future’s threat research arm Insikt Group, discovered evidence dating back to 2014 that interconnects RedFoxtrot and Chinese military-intelligence appa... |
Security researchers at Proofpoint have discovered that threat actors have repurposed a nearly 15-year-old attack tool called Hupigon to launch a new campaign targeting both faculty and students at colleges and universities across the US.
Hupigon is a remote access trojan (RAT) that has been around since at least 2006 ... |
According to security company AhnLab, a new malware campaign is being deployed by hackers, aimed at people who want to use “piracy” Windows 10, this malware will spread remote access trojans and their computers, namely: BitRAT.
AhnLab’s investigation shows that this malware campaign is focused on South Korea, or origin... |
(updated: 10/26/2017 with additional file hashes and mitigations)
A new ransomware campaign has affected at least three Russian media companies in a fast-spreading malware attack. Fontanka and Interfax are among the companies affected by the Bad Rabbit ransomware named by the researchers who first discovered it. The ma... |
In this post, I’ll describe how I easily managed to exploit an SSRF vulnerability on target.com, a lot of information will be redacted for privacy reasons, but I hope you enjoy reading it.
Last year, while hunting with my bug hunting team (named Vendetta), I came across a feature that allows the user to specify a URL f... |
Packet sniffing is a technique of monitoring every packet that crosses
the network. A packet sniffer is a piece of software or hardware that
monitors all network traffic. The security threat presented by sniffers
is their ability to capture all incoming and outgoing traffic, including
clear-text passwords and usernames... |
Though cybersecurity and data breaches are popular topics these days, many people don’t take the necessary precautions to keep their online activities secure. This leaves them vulnerable to cyberattacks, including man-in-the-middle attacks or MITMs. But what exactly is a MITM attack, and how can you prevent one? Read o... |
Attackers Leverage Open Source in New BYOB Attack
An attack leveraging the open-source Build Your Own Botnet (BYOB) framework has reportedly been intercepted by Israeli cybersecurity firm Perception Point’s incident response team. According to the team, this appears to be the first time the BYOB framework has been foun... |
Security researchers from Intezer uncovered a large scale operation targeting cryptocurrency users with a previously undetected RAT named ElectroRAT.
The campaign was uncovered in December, but according to the experts is active since at least January 2020.
The campaign appears well arranged, operators carried out a fu... |
North Korean hackers are expanding their efforts to break into U.S. defense and aerospace companies in a series of attacks dubbed “Operation North Star.”
Detailed Wednesday by researchers at McAfee Advanced Threat Research, the operation involves the use of a series of malicious documents containing job postings taken ... |
Do you use Metasploit to check if your servers are vulnerable? If not then you should take a look at it.
What is Metasploit?
The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration tests, system administr... |
Cybercriminal efforts to threaten IT systems are constantly evolving. Among the techniques that we’ve seen this year are the injection of malicious code in thousands of ecommerce websites in order to to steal personal data and the use of LinkedIn to install spyware. What’s more, these techniques are working; the cost o... |
Password theft is a very serious problem that Microsoft seems to have focused on for quite some time now. A key point for this is the implementation of accreditation systems in two or more steps, limiting the potential scope of a stolen or insecure password, of course, but also analyzing the means used by cybercriminal... |
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