CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 19, 2021

Cloud Security startup Mesh7 has been acquired by Virtualization software providing leader VMware as it has been made official by both the companies today. Boosting the deal further was Mesh7’s latest open source platform ‘Envoy’ that was designed for service-oriented architectures to be integrated into Tanzu service of VMware.

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SecureList

APRIL 13, 2023

In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the recent reports that focus on uncommon infection methods and describe the associated malware. Online advertising platforms offer advertisers the possibility to bid in order to display brief ads in search engines, such as Google, but also websites, mobile apps and more.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2022

Then it analyzed container images in Docker Hub and popular code libraries and software packages (including PyPI, NPM, Ruby), searching for names and text labels that called for action against either side. “As Of the public sources, about 40% of the packages were denial-of-service (DoS) activity aimed at online services.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Experts from HackenProof discovered Open Elasticsearch instances that expose over 82 million users in the United States. ” reads a blog post published by HackenProof. could be the data source.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A critical vulnerability in the open-source logging software Apache Log4j 2 is fueling a chaotic race in the cybersecurity world, with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) issuing an emergency security update as bad actors searched for vulnerable servers. release of Log4j 2 that fixes the RCE vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

“It’s natural and expected for developers to make mistakes while developing code, especially open source maintainers and contributors for whom this is not a full-time job,” he said. Also read: Software Supply Chain: A Risky Time for Dependencies. Managing the Attack Surface.

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Pen Test

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

TLDR; Upgrade Confluence to a patched version and employ the open-source security scanner n0s1 to proactively address potential secret leaks. 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.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2021

Facial recognition tech is in the news again after the FBI discovered the identify of one of the Capitol rioters by using facial recognition software on his girlfriend’s Instagram posts. After the Capitol riots following the US election, those responsible were slowly arrested over a period of weeks of searching and identifying.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A researcher specializing in Software Supply Chain security named Dan Lorenc recently raised an interesting topic on LinkedIn. 138 new vulnerabilities in open-source projects were all entered the same day to the CVE database. NVD also provides an easier mechanism to search on a wide range of variables. in curl 7.65.2

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

There are many examples of open-source software that (ab)use a vulnerable driver for this purpose. In this blog post I’ll analyze a signed driver that can be used to create a program able to terminate a specific process from the kernel. One the most used driver is the Process Explorer driver.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2021

What are Secure Scorecards for open source projects? And how they help you produce secure software. Open-source code is the developer’s “wheel” that doesn’t need to be remade. Open-source code is the developer’s “wheel” that doesn’t need to be remade. Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash. “No

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

“Around this same time, similar infection chains were observed in the security community with commonalities of users searching for legitimate software downloads that ended up getting served illegitimate software from promoted ads from Google [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ].” ” concludes the report.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cybercriminals are quickly ramping up efforts to exploit the critical flaw found in the widely used Log4j open-source logging tool, targeting everything from cryptomining to data theft to botnets that target Linux systems. In addition, the U.S. The Log4Shell flaw – which Impacts Log4j versions 2.0 through 2.14.1 Log4j attack traffic.

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Anton on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This blog is written jointly with Konrads Klints. This requires only a moderate cloud and data analytics expertise which can be readily sourced if not available in-house. search by keywords for IR, IOCs during threat hunts or compliance data retrievals. Use open source (and then who pays for hardware or cloud storage)?

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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. Threats to Open Source, IoT. Its developer published the source code for Mirai, which ramped up the number of variants, including Sora, IZIH9 and Rekai. “If

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Brute Ratel is the most advanced Red Team & Adversary Simulation Software in the current C2 Market. Brute Ratel comes prebuilt with several opsOpec features which can ease a Red Team’s task to focus more on the analytical part of an engagement instead of focusing or depending on Open source tools for post-exploitation.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

This update was released prior to the massive leak of Conti source code and chat logs on Februrary 27, 2022. While two versions of Conti source code have been leaked, the most recent ransomware code has not yet been leaked. Therefore, those applications will not have open file handles that could prevent file encryption.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also has its share of security holes that open the door for security researchers or ne’er-do-wells to liberate or else seize control over already-hacked systems.

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McAfee

JULY 31, 2020

This week we learned about a leak of source code from 50 prominent companies , posted by a Swiss IT consultant. These come after another recent leak of source code from Nintendo, prompting us to comment on the issue of IP protection and secure development pipelines. . Scan Application Code for Vulnerabilities .

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“In addition to SolarMarker, the Menlo Labs team has seen a rise in attacks designed to target users, as opposed to organizations, bypassing traditional security measures,” the researchers wrote in a blog post this week. Compromising Devices through Search Results. Malicious SolarMarker downloads.

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Pentester Academy

APRIL 5, 2023

Technical difficulty: Beginner Introduction As noted on the project’s GitHub page : Limesurvey is the number one open-source survey software. Step 2: Check open ports on the provided machine. Open the following URL in the web browser: [link] LimeSurvey web application is hosted on the target server.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The world has an insecure software problem, which is why 84% of cyber attacks focus on the application layer. For things to improve, developers need better code analysis tools make implementing security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) much easier. 1 Software development lifecycle, CI framework.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2021

When developers write secrets such as passwords and API keys directly into source code, these secrets can make their way to public repos or application packages, then into an attacker’s hands. The secret was embedded in the source code of Reverb’s Android app. This bug report was submitted to reverb.com. private static final java.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

On September 12, 2023 we published two blogs urging our readers to urgently patch two Apple issues which were added to the catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and to apply an update for Chrome that included one critical security fix for an actively exploited vulnerability.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

They're totally free and they have a really cool anonymity API that ensures no useful information about the password being searched for is ever exposed. link] - @troyhunt think this one is an interesting read, maybe worthy of a blog post. Now, maybe the password you're searching for is one of those 621.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A critical vulnerability discovered in the open-source load balancer and proxy server HAProxy could enable bad actors to launch an HTTP Request Smuggling attack, which would let them bypass security controls and gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. Further reading: Open Source Security: A Big Problem.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Source: xiongmaitech.com. But Xiongmai — despite repeated warnings from researchers about deep-seated vulnerabilities in its hardware — has continued to ignore such warnings and to ship massively insecure hardware and software for use in products that are white-labeled and sold by more than 100 third-party vendors.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The first thing we can say is that, with Mirrorbits, we find ourselves lucky: this is a rock-solid piece of software, built on modern tech (Go and Redis), initially released 10 years ago, and running in production for just as long. Much more could be written on the topic, and we plan a longer blog post dedicated to it.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

One reason may be that software developers do not believe they can create completely secure code. Perhaps these two factors have convinced security professionals to simply accept software as irrevocably vulnerable. Software cannot make other applications perfect, and humans can’t either, case closed.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This blog provides an overview of how Cisco Secure Endpoint helps protect your environment from attackers exploiting this vulnerability. On Thursday, December 9, the Apache Software Foundation disclosed a security vulnerability in Apache Log4j, a Java-based logging library widely used by developers around the world.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 13, 2023

During the past month, we have observed an increase in the number of malicious ads on Google searches for “Zoom”, the popular piece of video conferencing software. In this blog post, we chose to highlight two cases: Case #1 is about a new loader which we have not seen mentioned publicly before called HiroshimaNukes.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2023

” KeePass is a free and open-source software used to securely manage passwords. ” “The POC application searches the dump for these patterns and offers a likely password character for each position in the password.” Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Here is a breakdown of attack source by country: How did Cloudflare defend against this DDoS attack? Dosd is a home-grown software-defined daemon. It then self-propagates by searching for open Telnet ports 23 and 2323. Cloudflare was able to fend off an attack of this scale with its autonomous edge DDoS protection system.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This blog is written jointly with Konrads Klints. This requires only a moderate cloud and data analytics expertise which can be readily sourced if not available in-house. search by keywords for IR, IOCs during threat hunts or compliance data retrievals. Use open source (and then who pays for hardware or cloud storage)?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2021

This blog post is divided into four parts: Introduction : provides an overview of what happened. fvckrender: Be really careful out there I was dumb enough to not overlook this and open their SCR file and got my metamask swiped from à to Z all my tokens gone. Opened a scam project proposal with a.scr file and a Microsoft Word icon.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

The recent news about the SolarWinds hack has put software supply-chain attacks back in the limelight. Security pros may recall the 2017 NotPetya attack on tax accounting software by M.E. Later that same year, researchers found an advanced backdoor embedded in one of the code libraries of NetSarang’s server management software.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Here is a blog about the dark web I had written. please elaborate on that ; The dark web, also known as the deep web or darknet, is a part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines and can only be accessed using specialized software such as Tor. The dark web also poses a significant threat to businesses.

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