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FireEye experts found source code for CARBANAK malware on VirusTotal?

Security Affairs

Starting from 2016 the group developed a new custom malware using Cobalt Strike, a legitimate penetration testing framework. This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. link] [link].

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

What are the results of the provider’s most recent penetration tests? Conduct audits and penetration testing. Read more: Best Penetration Testing Tools for 2021. This article was originally published on May 24, 2017. Understand your shared responsibility model. Enable security logs.

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FireEye experts found source code for CARBANAK malware on VirusTotal?

Security Affairs

Starting from 2016 the group developed a new custom malware using Cobalt Strike, a legitimate penetration testing framework. This CARBANAK work was in active development when whoopsed to VT from RU on 2017-04-19. Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. link] [link].

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

SecureList

To make matters worse, with the development of penetration-testing tools and services, the dark market saw the rise of new malicious tools. These tools are developed and used for legitimate services, such as assessing clients’ security infrastructure and potential for successful network penetration.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

Always keep your eyes open to control-rights of the senior IT managers or systems administrators with the authority to configure servers, firewalls, cloud storage, and file-sharing (or another network privilege).

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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.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.