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Deadglyph, a very sophisticated and unknown backdoor targets the Middle East

Security Affairs

Stealth Falcon is a nation-state actor active since at least 2012, the group targeted political activists and journalists in the Middle East in past campaigns. The attacks have been conducted from 2012 until 2106, against Emirati journalists, activists, and dissidents.

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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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CSPM vs CWPP vs CIEM vs CNAPP: What’s the Difference?

eSecurity Planet

In 2012, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) began to emerge to monitor user access of cloud services. Ensures encryption , data loss prevention (DLP) , and access restrictions to protect data from unwanted access, data leakage, and exfiltration. Supports application architectures built on containers.

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Q&A: Cloud Providers and Leaky Servers

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

I was one of 68 million Dropbox users that received an email last year asking me to reset my password because they found out that in 2012 they had lost our User IDs and hashed passwords. On both occasions Uber left its encryption keys on GitHub, which in part led to the breach. Hope isn’t considered a best security practice.

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers, along with update and delivery functionality through trusted services such as GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, all using custom encrypted archives. This architectural approach is a hallmark of APT malware. 8, 15.0.0.0/8, 8, 16.0.0.0/8,

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian. 14 ) performs a first check on CPU architecture and a second one on the number of processors. Technical Analysis. The “ run ” script (shown in Fig.

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CISSPs from Around the Globe: An Interview with James Wright

CyberSecurity Insiders

I work at a Fortune 100 Media and Entertainment company operating within the Information Security Architecture and Engineering group on the Cloud Security Services team. I also work with my team on leading risk assessments, authoring position papers, security architecture evaluations, and associated risk discovery activities.