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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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Estonian National charged with helping Russia acquire U.S. hacking tools and electronics

Security Affairs

In 2012, the US government added Shevlyakov to Entity List, a ban list for procuring and delivering export-restricted items to Russia. In May 2020, Shevlyakov used one of his front companies to buy a licensed copy of the penetration testing platform Metasploit Pro. ” continues the press release.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Also read : Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security.

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

which according to Microsoft documentation dates back to 2012. During my PhD program I worked for US Government (@ National Institute of Standards and Technology, Security Division) where I did intensive researches in Malware evasion techniques and penetration testing of electronic voting systems.

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The evolutions of APT28 attacks

Security Affairs

According to the many analyses made by Unit42 (available HERE ), FireEye ( HERE , HERE ) and TALOS ( HERE , HERE ) we might agree that APT28 has been very active (or at least very “spotted”) during the time frame between 2012 to 2019. I’ve also been encharged of testing uVote voting system from the Italian Minister of homeland security.

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Cloud-based dev teams: shift security left to avoid being the next SolarWinds

SC Magazine

A woman speaking on a mobile phone walks past a cloud computing presentation ahead of the CeBIT technology trade fair in 2012. Penetration testing toolkits are starting to include reconnaissance capabilities that help testers detect weaknesses and exposures in these managed services, the report states.

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Iranian Threat Actors: Preliminary Analysis

Security Affairs

Cleaver attack capabilities are evolved over time very quickly and, according to Cylance, active since 2012. I do have experience on security testing since I have been performing penetration testing on several US electronic voting systems. I met Palantir Technologies where I was introduced to the Intelligence Ecosystem.