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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Proxy services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. “Probably, they wanted to keep that revenue stream going.”

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 450 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutch Cancer Center New NKAbuse malware abuses NKN decentralized P2P network protocol Snatch ransomware gang claims the hack of the food giant Kraft Heinz Multiple flaws in pfSense firewall can lead to arbitrary code execution BianLian, White Rabbit, and Mario Ransomware Gangs Spotted (..)

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Experts show how to run malware on chips of a turned-off iPhone

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Researchers devised an attack technique to tamper the firmware and execute a malware onto a Bluetooth chip when an iPhone is “off.” Unlike NFC and UWB chips, the Bluetooth firmware is neither signed nor encrypted opening the doors to modification. To nominate, please visit:?

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Beastmode Mirai botnet now includes exploits for Totolink routers

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Between February and March 2022, researchers from the FortiGuard Labs team observed Beastmode operators adding five new exploits in a few weeks, with three targeting some TOTOLINK routers. TOTOLINK has already addressed these flaws with the release of new firmware for vulnerable devices.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 420 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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Please vote for Security Affairs ( [link] ) as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections where is reported Securityaffairs or my name Pierluigi Paganini Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

This email address is also connected to accounts on several Russian cybercrime forums, including “ __edman__ ,” who had a history of selling “logs” — large amounts of data stolen from many bot-infected computers — as well as giving away access to hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Tainted password-cracking software for industrial systems used to spread P2P Sality bot

Security Affairs

Dragos experts investigated an infection of DirectLogic PLCs from Automation Direct, they performed reverse engineering of the password cracking tool and discovered it did not crack the password at all, rather, it exploited a vulnerability in the firmware to retrieve the password on command. ” reads the advisory published by Dragos.

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