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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. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages. com , privnate[.]com

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Microsoft provides more mitigation instructions for the PetitPotam attack

Malwarebytes

It does this by performing an NTLM relay attack that does not rely on the Microsoft’s Print System Remote Protocol (MS-RPRN) API but instead uses the EfsRpcOpenFileRaw function of the Microsoft Encrypting File System Remote Protocol (MS-EFSRPC) API. Vulnerable systems. ” New mitigation details.

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Google Public DNS’s approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks

Google Security

Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol used on the Internet to translate human-readable domain names (e.g., The path from a client to the resolver is usually on a local network or can be protected using encrypted transports like DoH, DoT. 192.0.2.1) Google Public DNS).

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CloudWizard APT: the bad magic story goes on

SecureList

Encryption and communication As we have mentioned above, two modules (Crypton.dll and Internet.dll) are bundled with every installation of the CloudWizard framework. The Crypton module performs encryption and decryption of all communications. module execution results) is encrypted with a combination of AES and RSA.

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Cloud Bucket Vulnerability Management in 2021

eSecurity Planet

As cloud computing has become increasingly popular, bucket breaches have exposed millions of records to the public Internet. These breaches left contact information, account passwords, credit card numbers, private photos, and more exposed. Also Read : Top Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIP) for 2021. Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers, along with update and delivery functionality through trusted services such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, all using custom encrypted archives. In the Linux version, it also gathers OpenSSH keys stored in $HOME/.ssh 8, 10.0.0.0/8, 8, 100.64.0.0/10,

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What is Tor?

Malwarebytes

Tor uses layers of encryption to keep your traffic secure. (It’s Each node peels back one layer of encryption. The encryption ensures that each node is only aware of the node that came before it and the node that comes after it. Because Tor uses more nodes and more encryption than a VPN it is normally slower.

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