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Future Focused: Encryption and Visibility Can Co-Exist

Cisco Security

In fact, 63% of threats detected by Cisco Stealthwatch in 2019 were in encrypted traffic. The European Union is concerned enough that it drafted a resolution in November 2020 to ban end-to-end encryption, prompting outcry from privacy advocates. Keeping your destination private: DNS over HTTPS.

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. There is no indication these are the real names of the phishers, but the names are useful in pointing to other sites targeting Privnote since 2020. The real Privnote, at privnote.com. net , privatenote[.]io

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Lancefly APT uses powerful Merdoor backdoor in attacks on Asian orgs

Security Affairs

“Symantec researchers observed it being used in some activity in 2020 and 2021, as well as this more recent campaign, which continued into the first quarter of 2023. The attack chain employed in 2020 started with a phishing email with a lure based on the 37th ASEAN Summit. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec.

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A First Look at Python in Excel

NetSpi Technical

Let’s try DNS. To quickly test if we have DNS outbound, we can use Burp Suite Collaborator. This will give us a unique address that we can query and let us know if a DNS request was received. import socket data = socket.gethostbyname_ex(‘<collaborator URL>’) print(repr(data)) We have DNS outbound.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

When Patching Goes Wrong Now that I've finished talking about how patching should be autonomous, let's talk about the problems with that starting with an issue I raised in this tweet from yesterday: In the first of my IoT blog series yesterday, I lamented how one of my smart plugs was unexplainably inaccessible. They can always screw you.

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Anubis Networks is back with new C2 server

Security Affairs

This campaign is highlighted by Segurança Informática in 2020 , and the high-level diagram of this new campaign can be observed below. Figure 1: High-level diagram of the ANUBIS phishing network and its components (2020). As observed, criminals are using the Let’s Encrypt CA to create valid HTTPs certificates.

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Threat Intelligence and Protections Update Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228

McAfee

In this blog, we present an overview of how you can mitigate the risk of this vulnerability exploitation with McAfee Enterprise solutions. As we are writing this blog, on MVISION Insights there are 1,813 IOCs including MD5, SHA256, URL, IP, DOMAIN, HOSTNAME. Exploitation of Remote Services – T1210 (Lateral Movement).

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