Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The analysis of a malicious email revealed a possible raising interest of the TA505 cybercrime gang in system integrator companies. The infrastructure used in the attacks suggests the involvement of the cybercrime group TA505. TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. Introduction.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2023

Cobalt Strike is a paid penetration testing product that allows an attacker to deploy an agent named ‘Beacon’ on the victim machine. In November 2022, Google Cloud researchers announced the discovery of 34 different Cobalt Strike hacked release versions with a total of 275 unique JAR files across these versions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

CARBANAK cybercrime gang was first uncovered in 2014 by Kaspersky Lab that dated its activity back to 2013 when the group leveraged the Anunak malware in targeted attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks. Starting from 2016 the group developed a new custom malware using Cobalt Strike, a legitimate penetration testing framework.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

A Russian national was extradited to the US from Switzerland after he was charged for trading information stolen from hacked U.S. The Russian national Vladislav Klyushin (41) was extradited to the United States from Switzerland to face charges for his alleged role in a scheme whose participants traded on information stolen from U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

The recent Hive infrastructure takedown as well as other major gangs dissolution such as Conti in 2022, is making room in the cybercrime business The Lockbit locker leaked a few months ago in the underground, is increasing its popularity and adoption among micro-criminal actors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

The Clop ransomware gang claims to have hacked hundreds of companies by exploiting the above issue. WE ALSO WANT TO REMIND ALL COMPANY THAT IF YOU PUT DATA ON INTERNET WHERE DATA IS NOT PROTECT DO NOT BLAME US FOR PENETRATION TESTING SERVICE. “There is no evidence of impact to Shell’s core IT systems,” Arata added.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

The Clop ransomware gang claims to have hacked hundreds of companies by exploiting the above issue. WE ALSO WANT TO REMIND ALL COMPANY THAT IF YOU PUT DATA ON INTERNET WHERE DATA IS NOT PROTECT DO NOT BLAME US FOR PENETRATION TESTING SERVICE. WE ARE ONLY FINANCIAL MOTIVATED AND DO NOT CARE ANYTHING ABOUT POLITICS.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. conduct employee phishing tests.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2023

The US government offers rewards for information that leads to the arrest, conviction, or location of threat actors. The Clop ransomware group recently claimed to have hacked hundreds of companies globally by exploiting MOVEit Transfer vulnerability. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

"While many of these attack trends are troubling, there are a number of things organizations can do to reduce their risk, such as investing in security awareness programs, updating security protocols, working with trusted partners to address vulnerabilities, and partnering with an MDR vendor."

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s why Tennisha Martin founded Black Girls Hack , an organization designed to help the next generation receive the skills and experience they need to land jobs in the C-suites, and perhaps begin to address the acute shortage of infosec professionals with qualified people of color. For many, though, that isn’t true.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s why Tennisha Martin founded Black Girls Hack , an organization designed to help the next generation receive the skills and experience they need to land jobs in the C-suites, and perhaps begin to address the acute shortage of infosec professionals with qualified people of color. For many, though, that isn’t true.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Cobalt Strike is a legitimate penetration testing tool designed as an attack framework for red teams (groups of security professionals who act as attackers on their own org’s infrastructure to discover security gaps and vulnerabilities.). SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cobalt Strike). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2023

Artifacts of professional penetration-testing tools such as Metasploit and Cobalt Strike have also been observed.” The alert also provides mitigations and security controls to prevent and reduce the impact of the threat. ransomware appeared first on Security Affairs. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Operators behind the Pysa ransomware, also employed a version of the PowerShell Empire penetration-testing tool, they were able to stop antivirus products. “On one of the compromised information systems, experts found encrypted files with the extension “ newversion.” newversion file extension instead of.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

Operators behind the Pysa ransomware, also employed a version of the PowerShell Empire penetration-testing tool, they were able to stop antivirus products. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FBI). newversion file extension instead of .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Cybercrime gang behind the Emotet malware is targeting organization with external SOC with emails claiming to deliver a SOC “weekly report.”. 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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2021

Picture 12 – Screenshot from “xss” forum (AW_cards: “We recruit suppliers of bank cards”) Another unusual promotional move was the sponsorship of a contest for users who were asked to submit articles about penetration tests, the bypassing of security solutions, vulnerabilities and other hacking related topics.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently identified a campaign in which the TeamTNT threat actors deployed a malicious container image (hosted on Docker Hub) with an embedded script to download Zgrab scanner and masscanner —penetration testing tools used for banner grabbing and port scanning respectively. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Jane Frankland

JULY 13, 2020

These are: Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP) , Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) , Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) , Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP), and. GIAC Security Essentials. The hours and pay aren't good in cybersecurity.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Security enthusiast and Linux evangelist Binni Shah consistently offers valuable tutorials, guides, and insights for the cybersecurity community. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

There’s an old adage in information security: “Every company gets penetration tested, whether or not they pay someone for the pleasure.” Each day, millions of malware-laced emails are blasted out containing booby-trapped attachments. THE DOCTOR IS IN.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Pictured: a Dome Series security camera from Verkada. A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Or perhaps might monitor the movements of workers, management and on-site security personnel in order to perform a physical break-in at a later time.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

A deadly cyber campaign has been working silently to undermine website security by exploiting popular WordPress plugins — infiltrating over a million websites and leaving administrators scrambling for solutions. Websites running Elementor Pro 3.11.6 Remove all unnecessary or unused software.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 11, 2023

By Chinatu Uzuegbu, CISSP, CEO/Managing Cyber Security Consultant at RoseTech CyberCrime Solutions Ltd. The Identity and Access Management Security Steering Committee is a group of C-Suites leaders, also referred to as the respective Data and Asset Owners from the various Business Units of my organization.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Ursnif/Gozi is a quite (in)famous banking trojan targeting UK/Italy mostly, and attribute to the cybercrime group TA-505 from TrendMicro in late 2018 by spotting common evidences between Ursnif /Gozi and TA-505 banking trojans such as Dridex and the loader Emotet. SecurityAffairs – malware hunter, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Hanslovan: A lot of even the publicly available penetration testing or attack simulation tools have these now built in natively. And that's what makes this hack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

According to the message, the FBI hacked the gang’s infrastructure because they didn’t want to leak information Fulton County. version installed, which was successfully penetration tested most likely by this CVE [link] , as a result of which access was gained to the two main servers where this version of PHP was installed.

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