Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

The most interesting cyber story in the build up to the 2004 games was an infamous wiretapping incident in Athens. As you can see, things still aren’t really all that cyber in Olympics land. Not spectacular by any means, but one of the first examples of using Twitter as a jumping-off point for attacks during a major event.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Nation-State Cyber Threats. Details: We discuss the "Big Four" nation-state bad actors and the cyber attacks they are capable of. Also, we cover the top 10 cyber attack methods used by Iran and its hacking groups. Featured interview: CISO and cyber attorney Alexander Urbelis who uncovered this cyberattack.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. “The second stage C2s they identified were the same as the IPs we labeled for SocksEscort.” com and vipssc[.]us

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Product: CAST Category: Attack Surface Management Company: Bishop Fox Review date: April 2021. This review is part of the April 2021 assessment of the Attack Surface Management (ASM) product category. Target market: Fortune 500 companies with large, complex attack surfaces. Understanding CAST. dev, QA and prod versions).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The second piece of script labeled with “$jdH9C” is a compressed GzipStream object. This function searches for all email accounts registered on victim machine. Figure 9 – Register key searched by malware. This IP is already know at scientific community and labeled as malicious. Figure 5 – Deobfuscated C2’s IP.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 1, 2021

And now some researchers are labeling it the "perfect storm.". Every news headline involving ransomware and a payout from the victim encourages more cybercriminal groups to use this attack. Furthermore, when an organisation has a cyber insurance policy, it might be able to claim the ransom back, which may encourage payment.

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Ransomware Cyber Insurance Social Engineering Cybercrime 57

Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2023

Delve into the multi-stage attack methodology, from deceptive phishing emails to custom-built modules, as we dissect its techniques and shed light on its impact. Gain valuable insights into the evolving threat landscape and learn how organizations can fortify their defenses against this emerging Latin American cyber threat.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Product: Intrigue Category: Attack Surface Management Company: Intrigue Corp. This review is part of the March 2021 assessment of the Attack Surface Management (ASM) product category. What results is a grouping of attack surface data Intrigue refers to as a Collection. Review date: March 2021. Security program fit.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

As usually, I am not going to show you who was able to detect it compared to the one who wasn’t, since I won’t ending on wrong a declaration such as (for example): “Marco said that X is better than Y” Anyway, having the hash file I believe it would be enough to search for such information. AntiVirus Coverage.

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Engineering Malware Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing 73

Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

In one of my previous posts , I mentioned the differentiation between Adversarial Machine Learning and Offensive Machine Learning - Will Pearce defines Adversarial ML as the “ Subdiscipline that specifically attacks ML algorithms ” and Offensive ML as the “ Application of ML to offensive security problems ” and I agree with these definitions.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

This research was done with support from Culinda – a trusted leader in the medical cyber-security space. This paper is intended to bring an overview and some technical detail of the most critical attack chain along with addressing unique challenges faced by the medical industry. Critical Attack Scenario Details. Background.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

As the enterprise attack surface grows, IoT is yet another attack vector organizations aren’t fully prepared to defend. With Armis Standard Query (ASQ), operators can search and investigate vulnerabilities, services, and policies for managed and unmanaged devices, applications, and networks. JFrog Features.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

Their importance also makes them an attractive target for cyber criminals — according to Akamai, API and application attacks tripled last year. API security tools help protect the integrity of APIs and keep them safe from common attack vectors like local file inclusion (LFI), cross-site scripting ( XSS ) and SQL injection (SQLi).

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Add labels or unique IDs to log entries to improve troubleshooting and debugging. Labels facilitate sorting and filtering of log entries. Threat Detection To avoid breaches and cyber attacks, it is critical to identify and mitigate urgent security concerns.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Mimecast uses multi-layered detection engines to identify and neutralize threats, stopping malware, spam and targeted attacks before they reach the network. In addition to ransomware protection, it can defend against malware, spam, and targeted attacks like CEO fraud, spear phishing email threats and advanced persistent threats.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Enter Mystic Stealer, a fresh stealer lurking in the cyber sphere, noted for its data theft capabilities, obfuscation, and an encrypted binary protocol to enable it to stay under the radar and evade defenses. The "Grand" cluster One particular cluster of C2 servers sticks out when searching for hosted control panels.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Current attack methods, and the pitfalls we find in embedded designs, have been highlighted so that a finished product is as secure as it can be. By identifying all entry and exit points, data flows, and external dependencies this can help identify areas that are potentially susceptible to an attacker.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 9, 2023

with TruRisk is an enterprise-grade cyber risk management solution. By leveraging insights from 180k+ vulnerabilities that are sourced from more than 25 threat sources, you’re better prepared to prevent attacks from happening. Tenable Nessus is a trusted vulnerability assessment platform, built for the modern attack surface.

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Risk Penetration Testing Small Business Software 98

Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

On July 11, law enforcement officials in Ukraine announced they’d conducted 29 searches and detained two individuals in connection with a sprawling bulletproof hosting operation. “Bulletproof hosting is probably the biggest enabling service that you find in the underground.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 30, 2021

Vamosi: Sometime after Sisa Harrison became more interested in fuzz testing, and that interest, got him an internship at ForAllSecure, Green: I think I'd heard about ForAllSecure before from the DARPA cyber grand challenge, and I saw that they were doing fuzzing so I reached out to chip. In other words, was structure aware fuzzing.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I'm a cyber security professional, I guess. Vamosi: Justin and Iain gave a talk at this year’s SecTor entitled Behavioral Biometrics - Attack Of The Humanoid. Vamosi: Ah, ha, so here’s the part of the story that I want to know about-- how do we attack these systems. And that’s not good.

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