Troy Hunt

MAY 31, 2018

I've been at the AusCERT conference this week which has presented a rare opportunity to walk to a major event from my home rather than fly to the other side of the world. Remember also, this has all only happened because I started writing a blog in 2009 , in fact I discuss that in the aforementioned talk about hacking your career.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. In early January, the Cactus ransomware group claimed to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 31 – Panel: ‘Hack the Future – Why Congress & White House Support AI Red Teaming’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It had no documented cyber incident response runbooks or IT recovery plans (apart from documented AD recovery plans) for recovering from a wide-scale ransomware event. The post On the Irish Health Services Executive Hack appeared first on Security Boulevard. The antivirus server was later encrypted in the attack). (The

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition has begun, this is the 10th anniversary of the consumer-focused version of the contest. The news of the Samsung Galaxy S22 hack on the first day of Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 made the headlines. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Pwn2Own Toronto 2022). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The FBI warns of ransomware attacks on businesses involved in “time-sensitive financial events” such as corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ransomware gangs target these companies because there is a high likelihood that they will pay the ransom to avoid the impact of the disclosure of sensitive data during these events.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

An unnamed Chinese-language-speaking hacking group compromised systems at National Games of China in 2021. The event took place on September 15, 2021 in Shaanxi (China), it is a national version of the Olympics with only local athletes. SecurityAffairs – hacking, National Games of China). ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2023

The Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 has begun, this hacking competition has 19 entries targeting nine different targets – including two Tesla attempts. On the first day of the event, the organization awarded $375,000 (and a Tesla Model 3) for 12 zero-day vulnerabilities demonstrated by the participants. Master of Pwn points.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 31 Car Hacking Village – Euntae Jang’s, Donghyon Jeong’s, Jonghyuk Song’s ‘Automotive USB Fuzzing’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 31 – Will Kay’s’ Packet Hacking Village – Death By 1000 Likes’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2023

The researchers @hoangnx99 , @rskvp93 , and @_q5ca from Team Viettel ( @vcslab ) chained 2 vulnerabilities to hack Microsoft Teams. The team also won the Tesla Model 3 they have hacked. The researcher dungdm ( @_piers2 ) of Team Viettel ( @vcslab ) exploited an uninitialized variable and a UAF bug to hack Oracle VirtualBox.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 31 Car Hacking Village – Martin Petran’s ‘Abusing CAN Bus Spec For DoS In Embedded Systems’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 31 Packet Hacking Village – Mike Raggo’s, Chet Hosmer’s ‘OSINT for Physical Security Intelligence’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 31 Packet Hacking Village – Pete Hay’s ‘The Importance Of Arts And Crafts In ThreatOps’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2021

Many thanks to BSides Huntsville 2021 for publishing their tremendous conference videos on the organization's YouTube channel; one of the best BSides for this year, don't miss this 10-video infosec event. The post BSides Huntsville 2021 – David Hunt’s ‘Hack In Your Sleep’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 31 – Tabor’s, Tindell’s ‘Car Hacking Village – How An Auto Security Researcher Had His Car Stolen’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The DHS has launched a new bug bounty program dubbed ‘Hack DHS’ to discover security vulnerabilities in external DHS systems. As the federal government’s cybersecurity quarterback, DHS must lead by example and constantly seek to strengthen the security of our own systems,” said Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas. “The

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This will ensure that the HTTP Server feature is not unexpectedly enabled in the event of a system reload.” VulnCheck researchers observed that the vulnerability was exploited in a large-scale hacking campaign targeting Cisco IOS XE routers and switches. concludes the advisory that also includes Indicators of Compromise (IoCs).”After

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ForAllSecure

JULY 23, 2021

This premier event will feature actionable advice and best practices on autonomous security, the state of application security and the role fuzzing plays in securing code from some of the most well-known companies in information security. Tennisha Martin of Black Girls Hack. Ned Williamson of Google.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) recently made a statement accusing the United States National Security Agency (NSA) of repeatedly hacking the Northwestern Polytechnical University, a key public military research university located in Xi'an, China. TAO is a tactical implementation unit of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Keyboard and mouse apps connect to a server on a desktop or laptop computer and transmit mouse and keyboard events to a remote server. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Android Keyboard). The post Android Keyboard Apps with 2 Million downloads can remotely hack your device appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel. Many thanks to DEF CON 31 for publishing their terrific DefCon Conference 31 presenters content.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

During the first day of the Pwn2Own 2020 hacking competition, participants earned a total of $180,000 for exploits targeting Windows 10, Ubuntu Desktop and macOS. ” reads the official page of the event. The hack exploits an improper input validation bug. Below the schedule of the day2 of the event: 1000 – Phi Ph?m

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 31 – Jared Stroud’s ‘Packet Hacking Village – WINE Pairing With Malware’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2023

The DHS’s CSRB will review cloud security practices following recent hacks of Microsoft Exchange accounts used by US govt agencies. The CSRB’s mission is to review significant cyber events and ecosystem vulnerabilities and make recommendations based on the lessons learned. reads the advisory published by US CISA.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Irananian hacking group Black Shadow breached the Israeli internet hosting company Cyberserve, taking down several of its sites. Iranian hacking group Black Shadow compromised the server of the Israeli internet hosting company Cyberserve, taking down several of the sites hosted by the firm. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Ragnar Locker gangs started hacking into a Facebook advertiser’s account and creating advertisements their hack, this has already happened with the recent attack on the Italian liquor company Campari Group. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ragnar Locker ransomware). 9, on Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

VMware addressed several high-severity flaws that were disclosed during China’s Tianfu Cup hacking contest. VMware addressed several high-severity vulnerabilities that were demonstrated by Kunlun Lab team during China’s Tianfu Cup 2021 hacking contest. SecurityAffairs – hacking, VMware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Originating from the conference events at Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Harrah’s and Linq in Las Vegas, Nevada ; via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 31 – Good Pseudonym’s ‘Calling It A 0 Day – Hacking At PBX UC Systems’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In an interesting turn of events, the investigation of the whole SolarWinds compromise led to the discovery of an additional malware that also affects the SolarWinds Orion product but has been determined to be likely unrelated to this compromise and used by a different threat actor” reads the post published by Mic rosoft. “In

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The Coronavirus outbreak hasn’t stopped the Pwn2Own hacking conference, for the first time its organizer, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), has decided to arrange the event allowing the participants to remotely demonstrate their exploits. ” reads the page of the event. SecurityAffairs – Hacking, Pwn2Own 2020 ).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Organizers of Black Hat Asia and DEF CON China security conferences announced that they put the events on hold due to the Coronavirus outbreak. We still plan to host the event in Singapore this fall & will post new dates ASAP. Organizers of another important cyber security conference, DEF CON China 2.0

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

The BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Casepoint legal technology platform used US agencies, including SEC and FBI. ” In the event that the security breach is verified, it is reasonable to speculate that the ransomware group might have compromised sensitive and possibly classified information.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

At the time of discovery, the data store contained 226 million logged events, resulting in 1.2 The leaked information also had employee names and emails. Those logs were mainly attributable to cybersecurity software such as Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2024

Threat actors are hacking WordPress sites by exploiting a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-6000, in old versions of the Popup Builder plugin. “These injections serve as handlers for various Popup Builder events such as sgpb-ShouldOpen , sgpb-ShouldClose , sgpb-WillOpen , sgpbDidOpen , sgpbWillClose , sgpb-DidClose.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition has ended and these are the final numbers for the event: $989,750 awarded. The ANHTUD Information Security Department used another heap-based overflow to exploit the Canon printer. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Pwn2Own Toronto 2022). 63 unique 0-days.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

By allowing itself to be dynamic and working in real-time, access can modify itself in the event of an attack. Multi-factor doesn’t just create multiple walls of security but is also smart about who it lets in. SecurityAffairs – artificial intelligence , sensitive information). Pierluigi Paganini.

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