Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

The Lancefly APT group is using a custom powerful backdoor called Merdoor in attacks against organizations in South and Southeast Asia. Symantec researchers reported that the Lancefly APT group is using a custom-written backdoor in attacks targeting organizations in South and Southeast Asia, as part of a long-running campaign.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. Researchers from Microsoft monitored a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers and attributed the attacks to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. eXplorer.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Google TAG experts pointed out that the Chinese group previously used GC2 in July 2022 in an attack aimed at an Italian job search website These incidents highlighted a few key threat trends by China-affiliated threat actors. The researchers highlighted some key threat trends by China-linked APT groups.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2022

In early May, SentinelOne researchers observed a China-linked APT group, tracked as Moshen Dragon, targeting the telecommunication sector in Central Asia with ShadowPad and PlugX malware. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”) To nominate, please visit:?

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As it turns out, Kenneth operates a network of mirrors, which was officially announced back in May 2023 on his blog: Building the Micro Mirror Free Software CDN. For anyone interested in Internet infrastructure, we encourage you to read it, that’s a well-written blog post right there, waiting for you.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Enters Mirrorbits One of the projects which is now complete is the migration of our “mirror redirector” This is our biggest user-facing service, as without this, all default Kali installations would not be able to use apt (aka http.kali.org ), or being able to download Kali image ( cdimage.kali.org ). " VERSION_ID="2023.4"

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Adam Shostack

JUNE 25, 2018

SCOTUS Blog links to court documents. United States ” by Orin Kerr, who is very well respected authority on the law of search and seizure. What is less certain is whether his characterization of the majority opinion is apt. A few interesting links: “ First Thoughts on Carpenter v. That’s huge.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Later, it discovered that several vulnerabilities had been exploited for unauthorized data exfiltration by an APT group called HAFNIUM. As Picus, we published a detailed blog post about the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) used by HAFNIUM to target Microsoft Exchange Servers. Type Darkside in the search bar and press enter.

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Pen Test

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It is a widely recognized best practice for Product Security Engineers to conduct scans of the software codebase in search of potential inadvertent secret leaks. TLDR; Upgrade Confluence to a patched version and employ the open-source security scanner n0s1 to proactively address potential secret leaks. Why do I need a secret scanner?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM Russia-linked APT group is compromising common IoT devices to gain access to several corporate networks. Researchers at Microsoft observed the Russia-linked APT group STRONTIUM abusing IoT devices to gain access to several corporate networks. SecurityAffairs – Russia APT, hacking). ” continues Microsoft.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 12, 2023

Stay tuned for a blog post coming out for more information! The issue is, they can clash thus break the operating system’s package management ecosystem, apt (Advanced Package Tool) ! APT Our personal preferred approach and what we see as being the easiest way, apt. Edit: Its out ! Look, we get it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The UCG said the attack was orchestrated by an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor, likely Russian in origin. ” reads the blog post published by Microsoft. “We are open sourcing the CodeQL queries that we used in this investigation so that other organizations may perform a similar analysis. . or in functionality.”

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

This threat actor has been active for more than a year and continues to evolve its tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs); we believe with high confidence that the threat actor is associated with Lazarus Group, a sophisticated North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group. Attribution to Lazarus APT.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Recently, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a new malware being used by the SideWinder APT threat group in campaigns targeting Pakistan: a backdoor we’ve called “WarHawk.” SideWinder APT campaign targets Pakistan with a new backdoor named “WarHawk”. Key Features of this Attack. Command Execution Module. File Manager InfoExfil Module.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In the blog, they detail the MITRE Tactics and Techniques the actors used in the attack. In this blog, our Pre-Sales network defenders describe how you can defend against a campaign like Operation Harvest with McAfee Enterprise’s MVISION Security Platform and security architecture best practices.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In this blog, we will share details of 4 groups of skimming attacks that have very little to no documentation in the public domain. Code searches for the following elementIDs in the web page to locate the card number, expiry date, and cvv code if Stripe payment processor is being used. Stripe payment. stripe-payments-card-numbers.

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Most users know they can either install a one-off package, or revert back to the old set of defaults ( apt install kali-linux-large ). ”, or has the above ever happened to you, we like to think people’s next stage would be to do apt-cache search gitleaks and see it in the network repositories. But we can do better.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Gartner noted, “Organizations investing in endpoint detection and response EDR tools are purposefully moving from an ‘incident response’ mentality to one of ‘continuous monitoring’ in search of incidents that they know are constantly occurring.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2022

However, Reuters in exclusive speculates that the attacks were launched by the Belarus-linked APT group tracked as UNC1151 (aka Ghostwriter). MSTIC will update this blog as we have additional information to share.” ” reported Reuters. In the second stage, Stage2.exe Pierluigi Paganini.

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Digital Shadows

JULY 5, 2021

Researchers initially attributed this attack to ransomware gang “REvil” (aka Sodinokibi), whose members claimed responsibility in a press release on their dark-web data-leak site, Happy Blog. Useful resources As we mentioned earlier, we will continue to update this blog to reflect the most up-to-date details pertaining to this campaign.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

” reads the blog post published by Trend Micro. The researchers speculate on a possible connection to Domestic Kitten espionage activities, an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Iranian APT actor aimed at specific groups of individuals since 2016. HRX, is notable for its wide range of cyberespionage capabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

There was a 10-fold increase in the number of samples of Mozi found in the wild, Mihai Maganu, a threat researcher at CrowdStrike, wrote in a blog post. The malware uses SSH brute-force attacks to gain remote control of devices and some variants allow bad actors to scan and search for Docker containers, he wrote.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 27, 2022

Since the beginning of 2022, ThreatLabz has been closely monitoring the activities of the Evilnum APT group. In this blog, we present the technical details of all components involved in the end-to-end attack chain. In March 2022, we observed a significant update in the choice of targets of Evilnum APT group. Key points.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

Officially announced today via press release and blog post, Workbench is a creation of Mitre Engenuity’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense, with contributions from Center members AttackIQ, HCA Healthcare, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and Verizon. . ’ But Workbench unifies all this information.

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Kali Linux

AUGUST 8, 2022

With the publishing of this blog post, we have the download links ready for immediate access , or you can update any existing installation. Please bear in mind, if you are looking for help, first search for your problem, ask questions, then wait for the community support from your peers. as a nice surprise for everyone to enjoy!

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

It’s a large one, so it’s going to have its own blog post once ready to help demonstrate its importance to us. Utilizing the refreshed documentation sites ( Kali-Docs and Kali-Tools ) , the search function will help you find almost anything you could need using Kali Linux! This one is for you bare-metal installers!

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SecureList

MARCH 30, 2021

In 2019, we observed an APT campaign targeting multiple industries, including the Japanese manufacturing industry and its overseas operations, that was designed to steal information. A month later, we discovered new activities from A41APT that utilized modified and updated payloads, and that’s what we cover in this blog.

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NopSec

JUNE 5, 2019

This blog series is dedicated to IT Vulnerability Ownership. I suggest keeping ownership informal until you and IT are comfortable drafting a process together–more on this in the next blog post. yum or apt-get ). I used an internal blog to interview early adopters and celebrated their success to the whole company.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

State-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) groups may also decide to target global sporting events like the Qatar 2022 World Cup to achieve state goals to the hosting country or the broader event community. Independently search for the company’s official contacts and call them to verify the legitimacy of their request.

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Kali Linux

JANUARY 5, 2014

A few Google searches later, we found an old cryptsetup patch by Juergen Pabel which does just that, adding a “nuke” password to cryptsetup, which when used, deletes all keyslots and makes the data on the drive inaccessible. In other words, having a boot password that would destroy, rather than decrypt, the data on our drive.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 31, 2023

Welcome to our new blog series, in which ReliaQuest staff members recommend interesting stories that you might find useful in your day to day jobs. ESET has reported APT groups like Lazarus Group utilizing a signed, legitimate Dell driver, “DBUtil_2_3.sys”, Here is what we are reading.

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Hackology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

With its unique code composition, attributing Kamran to a specific APT group is challenging. When the app is opened, Kamran sends the collected data, along with any new data meeting its search criteria, to the command and control server. While the spyware was not very advanced as it was only gathering data when the app was in focus.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 21, 2022

My secondary system was the computer I described setting up in this blog post. Tip #5: For password cracking competitions, perform web searches on "interesting" words. Perform a google search and identify results that contained [all/most] of the words to identify possible sources of the wordlist. RAM: 16 GB. Storage: 500GB SSD.

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In Secure Kali Pi (2022) , the first blog post in the Raspberry Pi series, we set up a Raspberry Pi 4 with full disk encryption. As before, we use the modinfo command, but this time we will search for firmware to see what firmware the module can use: kali@kalipi:~$ modinfo brcmfmac | grep firmware firmware: brcm/brcmfmac*-sdio.*.bin

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SecureList

JULY 25, 2022

In our APT predictions for 2022 , we noted that despite these risks, we expected more attackers to reach the sophistication level required to develop such tools. One of our industry partners, Qihoo360, published a blog post about an early variant of this malware family in 2017. Affected devices.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

Often, it's after someone has searched Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and found themselves pwned somewhere or other. I'm reaching 0.06% of them via the notification service and not a whole lot more in terms of people coming to the site and doing an ad hoc search (usually 100k - 200k people a day). unique email addresses.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

This breach has been flagged as "sensitive" which means it is not publicly searchable , rather you must demonstrate you control the email address being searched before the results are shown. The email address search is what HIBP is so well known for and that's obviously what will help you understand if you've been impacted.

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