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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle backdoor

Security Affairs

Attackers employed a custom tunneling tool to achieve this, it forwards client traffic to the server, the malware encrypts the traffic using trivial binary encryption. The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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North Korea-linked group Lazarus targets Latin American banks

Security Affairs

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Msadoz<n> dll (detected by Trend Micro as BKDR64_BINLODR.ZNFJ-A) – encrypted backdoor. Pierluigi Paganini.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT uses a Mac variant of the Dacls RAT

Security Affairs

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The Mac version uses the same AES key and IV as the Linux variant to encrypt and decrypt the config file. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Network Solutions data breach – hacker accessed data of more 22 Million accounts

Security Affairs

According to the company, attackers hacked a “limited number” of systems that allowed them to access the huge trove of data. The company pointed out that it encrypts credit card numbers and no credit card data was compromised as a result of the intrusion. “We SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

So how hard is it to hack APIs? In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. I mean, how hard is it even to hack an API.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

So how hard is it to hack APIs? In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. I mean, how hard is it even to hack an API.

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