Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Experts from Great Firewall Report analyzed recent upgrades to China’s Great Firewall and revealed that it can be circumvented. Members of the Great Firewall Report group have analyzed the recent improvement implemented for China’s Great Firewall censorship system and revealed that it is possible to bypass it.

Firewall 139

Firewall Surveillance Internet Internet 139

Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

Data breaches 99

Data breaches DNS Advertising Engineering 99

Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to the security firm Keepnet Labs that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko.

Data breaches 60

Data breaches DNS Advertising Engineering 60

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The package also sets two registry values under the key “HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession Manager” and runs a.vbs script that creates a Windows firewall rule to block incoming connections on ports 135, 139, and 445. . The final backdoor is a DLL file protected by the VMProtect. ” continues the analysis.

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Encryption DNS Architecture Firewall 88

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

Malware 80

Malware Advertising System Administration Spyware 80

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

gripe”, possibly to avoid reputation warnings raised by next-gen firewalls. The file downloaded from this censorship free file hosting is actually a chunk of 125KB random looking bytes, suggesting it would likely be some binary payload protected with strong encryption. Figure 4: Piece of the encrypted file downloaded from “share.]dmca.]gripe”.

Cyber Attacks 115

Cyber Attacks Malware Social Engineering Advertising 115

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. GitGuardian is a developer favorite offering a secrets detection solution that scans source code to detect certificates, passwords, API keys, encryption keys, and more.

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Cybersecurity Threat Detection Artificial Intelligence Risk 142