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Stealth Falcon’s undocumented backdoor uses Windows BITS to exfiltrate data

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

Kali Linux

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. One of the reasons it was so well received was because of the updated versions of most packages.

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