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PurpleFox botnet variant uses WebSockets for more secure C2 communication

Security Affairs

The payload fetched by the PowerShell targets 64-bit architecture systems, it is a long script consisting of three components: Tater (Hot Potato – privilege escalation) PowerSploit Embedded exploit bundle binary (privilege escalation). Most of the servers are located in China and belong to the infrastructure of the PurpleFox botnet.

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

This architectural approach is a hallmark of APT malware. Supported Windows versions include Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows 10 up to build 14392. The SMBv1 infection module serves as the primary penetration tool for Windows victims, using a custom EternalBlue exploit.

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Versa Unified SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics. Who is Versa Networks? Using VOS, Versa enables customers and service providers to deploy SASE and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions.

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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012.

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How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks

eSecurity Planet

The least common of SQL injection attacks, the out-of-band method relies on the database server to make DNS or HTTP requests delivering data to an attacker. . . . SQL injection attackers can learn a great deal about database architecture from error messages, ensuring that they display minimal information. Out-of-band.

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Iranian Threat Actors: Preliminary Analysis

Security Affairs

If so we are facing a state-sponsored group with high capabilities in developing persistence and hidden communication channels (for example over DNS) but without a deep interest in exploiting services. Cleaver attack capabilities are evolved over time very quickly and, according to Cylance, active since 2012. Cleaver TTP.