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Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021

SecureList

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. Applications have become more complex, their architecture better. This browser attack chain, popular in 2016, is no longer possible. Vulnerabilities market got a remake.

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New Linux/DDosMan threat emerged from an evolution of the older Elknot

Security Affairs

They are not aiming servers with x32 or x64 architecture but the router devices that runs on Linux too.” But let’s see what are the execution binaries and what an administrator will see because this analysis IS for rise the system administration awareness: Code execution: execve("/tmp/upgrade""); // to execute upgrade.

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

Kali Linux

Longer history lesson Knoppix - Initial two weeks work Whoppix (White-Hat and knOPPIX) came about as the founder, @Muts, was doing an in-person air-gap network penetration test lasting for two weeks in 2004. Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability. As soon as Kali 2.0

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