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Windows Server 2012 Users Beware: 0day Vulnerability Bypasses Mark of the Web Security

Penetration Testing

ACROS Security, the creators of 0patch micropatching technology, have uncovered a zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2.

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Inside TeraLeak: Exploring Thousands of Terabytes of Apple’s Hidden iOS Prototypes

Penetration Testing

Data collected from the servers of Apple TestFlight service between 2012 and 2015 has been leaked online.

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How to Stop Ransomware: Breach Prevention vs. Cobalt Strike Backdoor

Security Boulevard

With a year-on-year increase of over 161% , malicious usage of cracked versions of Cobalt Strike (a legitimate penetration test tool) is skyrocketing. Developed in 2012 to give pen testers and red teams the capability to conduct hard-to-spot test attacks, Cobalt Strike is designed to be dynamic and evasive.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. It surfaced in November 2012 and was making thousands of victims a day. The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. None of these early threats went pro.

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Red Cross Hack Linked to Iranian Influence Operation?

Krebs on Security

A reverse WHOIS search on that email address at DomainTools.com (an advertiser on this site) shows it was used to register 17 domains between 2012 and 2021, including moslimyouthmedia[.]com, com, sachtimes[.]com, com, and whatsupic[.]com. com, moslempress[.]com, com, and realneinovosti[.]net. ” On Jan.

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A Cobalt Strike flaw exposed attackers’ infrastructure

Security Affairs

According to security experts at Fox-IT, a recently addressed flaw in the Cobalt Strike penetration testing platform could be exploited to identify attacker servers.

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Google provides rules to detect tens of cracked versions of Cobalt Strike

Security Affairs

Cobalt Strike is a paid penetration testing product that allows an attacker to deploy an agent named ‘Beacon’ on the victim machine. Researchers at Google Cloud identified 34 different hacked release versions of the Cobalt Strike tool in the wild.