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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

guru’s registration records also are hidden, yet passive domain name system (DNS) records for both cryptor[.]biz has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. .” frequently relied on the somewhat unique password, “ plk139t51z.” ” Crypt[.]guru’s

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Top Trending CVEs of October 2022

NopSec

The vulnerability traces back to code released in 2011, which is a significant amount of time for a hashing algorithm to find its way into hundreds if not thousands of projects. I can still recall dumping clear-text passwords from “yahoo.com” (like I said, it was 2014). November Preview: Critical Vulnerability in OpenSSL 3.0.x

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Black Hat USA 2023 NOC: Network Assurance

Cisco Security

XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider. SCA detected 289 alerts including Suspected Port Abuse, Internal Port Scanner, New Unusual DNS Resolver,and Protocol Violation (Geographic).

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Other significant Xplico features include multithreading, SQLite or MySQL integration, no data entry limits, and can execute reserve DNS lookup from DNS pack. Noticing that digital forensic tools used by law enforcement were insufficient, Canadian police officer Jad Saliba founded Magnet Forensics in 2011. Magnet Forensics.

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

Fox IT

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. Attribution and Actor Background. Actor Tracking. WastedLocker. CobaltStrike C&C Domains. CobaltStrike Beacon config.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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NullMixer: oodles of Trojans in a single dropper

SecureList

The infection vector of NullMixer is based on a ‘User Execution’ (MITRE Technique: T1204) malicious link that requires the end user to click on and download a password-protected ZIP/RAR archive with a malicious file that is extracted and executed manually. The user extracts the archived file with the password. SmokeLoader.

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