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Unknown FinSpy Mac and Linux versions found in Egypt

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Since 2011 it was employed in attacks aimed at Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in many countries, including Bahrain, Ethiopia, UAE, and more. It extracts the binary for the relevant architecture in /tmp/udev2 and executes it. Like its Mac OS counterpart, FinSpy for Linux is also obfuscated using LLVM-Obfuscator.”

Spyware

Spyware Surveillance Mobile Advertising

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lessons Learned from SHA-1 Deprecation

Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

SHA-1 was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 and its usage for digital signatures was prohibited in 2013. Prepare a quantum-safe architecture now. Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms Announced. Since 2005, SHA-1 has been regarded as unsafe against well-funded adversaries. What must you do to make them function if they fail?

Encryption

Encryption Authentication Architecture Backups

DePriMon downloader uses a never seen installation technique

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path. The new DePriMon downloader was used by the Lambert APT group, aka Longhorn, to deploy malware.

Malware

Malware Telecommunications Advertising Encryption

It’s Too Late for Threat Intelligence Vendors to Ignore IPv6

Webroot

MARCH 15, 2021

That day came in February 2011, met with a dramatic announcement by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. On the other hand, IPv6 is based on 128-bit encryption. Well, it did exist , but was never officially adopted because it used the same 32-bit architecture as its predecessor. That made for just under 4.3

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Internet Internet IoT

How the Chrome Root Program Keeps Users Safe

Google Security

MAY 23, 2023

Once Chrome determines that the certificate is valid, Chrome can use it to establish an encrypted connection to the website. Encrypted connections prevent attackers from being able to intercept (i.e., For example, in 2011 a compromised CA led to a large-scale attack on web users in Iran. eavesdrop) or modify communication.

Government

Government Encryption Architecture Risk

Ready to move to the cloud? Here’s what you need to do when vetting service providers

SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. And with more people working remotely during the pandemic, there’s been a push to the cloud, which has forced them to rethink their basic networking and security architectures. Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

Firewall

Firewall Cloud Migration Architecture Information Security

Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

From behavioral analytics and machine learning to in-browser data encryption and an anti-bot mobile SDK, F5 offers industry-leading features. The San Francisco-based Fastly was started in 2011 and specializes in extending cloud infrastructures to the network edge. Fastly-Signal Sciences NGWAF. Get an in-depth look at SonicWall NS a.

Firewall

Firewall DDOS Marketing Technology

LastPass: Password Manager Review for 2021

eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

In 2011, LastPass CEO Joe Siegrist announced that the company’s servers may have been breached, as evidenced by anomalies in network traffic. Encrypted user vaults were not jeopardized, but there was still a considerable risk that hackers could gain access using the compromised data if users didn’t change their passwords again.

Password Management

Password Management Passwords Authentication Architecture

WastedLocker: A New Ransomware Variant Developed By The Evil Corp Group

Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

We have tracked the activities of the Evil Corp group for many years, and even though the group has changed its composition since 2011, we have been able to keep track of the group’s activities under this name. WastedLocker aims to encrypt the files of the infected host. Attribution and Actor Background. Actor Tracking.

Ransomware

Ransomware Encryption Malware Architecture

FinSpy: unseen findings

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Kaspersky has been tracking deployments of this spyware since 2011. Both of them are encrypted with RC4. All communications between the server are encrypted with RC4. The Trojan’s Cryptography Library to encrypt/decrypt exchanged data. The encrypted VFS file. Makes an initial POST request to the C2 server.

Encryption

Encryption Malware Spyware Architecture

The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

And so, I think it makes, well obviously it makes sense for message brokers , but it's kind of VM architecture like Java does so, you know, there's your application and there's some VM and then there's the OS below that There are some mistakes you can't make an Erlang. The other thing I'll tell you is, I joined Codenomicon in 2011.

Software

Software Computers and Electronics Internet Internet

Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

It was not until May 2011 that the next major version of BackTrack got released, which also happens to be the last, BackTrack 5. ARM - multi architecture Since BackTrack 4, the option was there for ARM support. We also setup dedicated build boxes, on various different architecture (as we wanted to support ARM).

InfoSec

InfoSec Penetration Testing Architecture Software

Black Hat USA 2023 NOC: Network Assurance

Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

Like last year, analysis started with understanding how the network architecture is laid out, and what kind of data access is granted to NOC from various partners contributing to the event. A lot has changed since my first Black Hat at Caeser’s Palace in 2011, it really is a shame. This is something that changes every year.

Wireless

Wireless DNS Mobile Technology

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