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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

Krebs on Security

In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank , one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. trump-email.com).

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Getting Started with Rapid7 InsightIDR: A SIEM Tutorial

eSecurity Planet

Once you are ready to install the collector role, first log into the InsightIDR portal : From the menu on the left side of the screen, click Data Collection. Once the collector installation is complete, head back to the InsightIDR portal, and from the menu on the left side of the screen, click Data Collection again.

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BOFHound: Session Integration

Security Boulevard

One of the biggest pitfalls of BOFHound’s prior usage strategies was the total absence of user session and local group membership data. If the BOF is used to query logged on users on localhost, the fully qualified computer DNS name from GetComputerNameExW is used. If that fails, the DNS suffix (e.g.,

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Rapid7 InsightIDR Review: Features & Benefits

eSecurity Planet

Rapid7 combines threat intelligence , security research, data collection, and analytics in its comprehensive Insight platform, but how does its detection and response solution – InsightIDR – compare to other cybersecurity solutions? Insight Connect helps automate several IT processes, improves indicators, and comes with 200+ plugins.

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

If the PowerShell is not present, the malware generates a hidden file with MZ-PE loader with a randomized name located in % APPDATA % directory. If administrative rights are present, its ether executes a PowerShell script that creates two task scheduler entries with GUID-like names and with different triggers.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second!

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Mystic Stealer

Security Boulevard

Enter Mystic Stealer, a fresh stealer lurking in the cyber sphere, noted for its data theft capabilities, obfuscation, and an encrypted binary protocol to enable it to stay under the radar and evade defenses. Together with our colleagues at InQuest, we present a deep dive technical analysis of the malware.