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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Foreign hackers breached Russian federal agencies, said FSB

Security Affairs

FSB National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NKTsKI) revealed that foreign hackers have breached networks of Russian federal agencies. Attackers gained access to mail servers, electronic document management servers, file servers, and workstations of various levels to steal data of interest. ” reads the report.

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From Targeted Attack to Untargeted Attack

Security Affairs

The file looks like a common XLS file within low Antivirus detection rate as shown in the following image (6/63). Antivirus Detection Rate. It looks like a romantic Emotet according to many Antivirus so I wont invest timing into this well-known Malware. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Cyber Defense Magazine: Exclusive Interview with Robert Herjavec

Herjavec Group

Now, looking back, there isn’t a person on planet earth who would say that the cell phone is not an ‘obvious’ piece of technology. Teleportation is a building block for a wide range of technologies. When it came to human interfaces in personal computing, it’s obvious that Steve Jobs was a visionary. Now, it’s obvious.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. Which hints at a possible BOTNET. That’s the only way you will get 150k.” “Online[.]io

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

Using an encrypted payload is quite a common way to evade Antivirus, since the encrypted payload changes depending on the used key. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. But what is the key?

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Malware researcher reverse engineered a threat that went undetected for at least 2 years

Security Affairs

During the analysis time, only really few Antivirus (6 out of 60) were able to “detect” the sample. AntiVirus Coverage. to query WMI in order to retrieve installed AntiVirus and Installed Firewall information. Have we had technology two years ago to detect such a threat?