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Unknown FinSpy Mac and Linux versions found in Egypt

Security Affairs

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.”

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DePriMon downloader uses a never seen installation technique

Security Affairs

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 103
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Ready to move to the cloud? Here’s what you need to do when vetting service providers

SC Magazine

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. Security pros have a lot on their plate dealing with all the breaches and vulnerabilities thrown at them every day. Randy Vickers, chief information security officer for the U.S.

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

Kali Linux

It was not until May 2011 that the next major version of BackTrack got released, which also happens to be the last, BackTrack 5. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability.

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Black Hat USA 2023 NOC: Network Assurance

Cisco Security

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.