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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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Pen Testing Toolkit: Tools & Antivirus Software Evasion Techniques

NopSec

Antivirus software is one of the oldest and the most ever present security control against malware and various types of malicious software. I have antivirus so I’m covered” used have some legitimate weight to it. Hope for the best that the target does not have an antivirus or an end point security tool! <For

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How Hackers Use Reconnaissance – and How to Protect Against It

eSecurity Planet

Also read: Best Penetration Testing Tools. Top Open Source Penetration Testing Tools. Antivirus and EDR tools, SIEM systems (security information and event management), security vendors, software, hardware, firmware, and operating systems. What Data Do Hackers Collect? The Top Reconnaissance Tools.

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

Security Affairs

Today I’d like to share the following reverse engineering path since it ended up to be more complex respect what I thought. During the analysis time, only really few Antivirus (6 out of 60) were able to “detect” the sample. AntiVirus Coverage. Have we had technology two years ago to detect such a threat?

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Three Ways to Protect Unfixable Security Risks

eSecurity Planet

However, before we dig into the technologies, let’s first examine why we need them. Industries with very expensive operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as healthcare or industrial manufacturing, can be especially vulnerable. 57% of ICS sites do not run automatically updating antivirus protection.

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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. Public Submitted Sample on Yomi. But let’s move on the analysis.

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Adaptive protection against invisible threats

SecureList

Corporate endpoint security technologies for mid-sized companies struggle to surprise us with anything brand new. Detecting an exploit or trojan that explicitly runs on a device is not a problem for an antivirus solution. It does not store itself on the hard disk, therefore tracking it with an ordinary antivirus solution is not easy.