SecureWorld News

MAY 31, 2023

Previously, Dan managed the Web Ads Machine Learning team at Twitter, was a Staff ML Engineer at Twitter Cortex, and was a Senior Data Scientist at TrueMotion. This is the first of a five-part series from Ed Amoroso of TAG Cyber exploring the risks to cloud email environments. Check out the entire series.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Likewise, lookalike and spoofed web domains and well-crafted phishing emails now easily trick employees into thinking they’re dealing with trustworthy sources. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. A typical attack.

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Ransomware Education Financial Services Phishing 124

Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Reptile Rootkit employed in attacks against Linux systems in South Korea New PaperCut flaw in print management software exposes servers to RCE attacks A cyberattack impacted operations of multiple hospitals in several US states Married couple pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 Malicious packages in (..)

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Malware Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Social Engineering 87

Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The group’s leader with identical alias in communications on Dark Web forums outlined Rust as one of the competitive advantages of their locker compared to Lockbit and Conti. The BlackCat is also known as “ALPHV”, or “AlphaVM” and “AphaV”, a ransomware family created in the Rust programming language.

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Ransomware Passwords Cyber Attacks Hacking 125

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Chrome extensions hijack searches and insert affiliate links into web pages. By mid-October 2022, the researchers discovered at least 30 variants of these extensions in both Chrome and Edge web stores. The attackers appends the affiliate tags to the URL and any purchase made on the site will generate a commission for the operators.

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Social Engineering Phishing Accountability Banking 95

Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2023

The SMTP server contained a web panel designed to create and distribute spear phishing emails. The threat actor used a generic web panel to craft and send phishing emails against Ukrainian government entities. Web Panel Uncovered as Source of Phishing Attacks EclecticIQ analysts discovered a publicly facing SMTP server 194[.]180[.]191[.]56

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Phishing Social Engineering Malware Government 83

SecureList

MARCH 24, 2022

Even phishing page domain name can often look like the real web address of a certain brand, as cybercriminals include the name of the company or service they are posing as in the URL. Creating them from scratch over and over again is time-consuming, and not all cybercriminals have the web-development and administration skills it takes.

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Phishing Marketing Banking Technology 105

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2022

Exotic Lily is a newly formed a hacking group that is trending on the cyber attack news headlines of Alphabet Inc’s subsidiary and a recent study made by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) states that the hacker’s gang is indulging in a massive phishing campaign and is into the distribution of malware.

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Ransomware Cyber Attacks Hacking Manufacturing 119

Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

The group’s leader with identical alias in communications on Dark Web forums outlined Rust as one of the competitive advantages of their locker compared to Lockbit and Conti. The BlackCat is also known as “ALPHV”, or “AlphaVM” and “AphaV”, a ransomware family created in the Rust programming language.

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Ransomware Passwords Data breaches Technology 92

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The Web site in 2015 for the “Manipulaters Team,” a group of Pakistani hackers behind the dark web identity “Saim Raza,” who sells spam and malware tools and services. Helpfully, many of the faces in that photo have been tagged and associated with their respective Facebook profiles.

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Software Phishing Cybercrime Accountability 226

LRQA Nettitude Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But here we are, shining a light on the dark alleyways of AI – the not-so-friendly neighbourhood of prompt injection. How AI Turns Sour But wait for it – here comes the dark twist. The Demo of Web Woes Imagine this: you’re on an online store, excitedly browsing for your favourite products.

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Artificial Intelligence Technology Penetration Testing Engineering 63

Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

MO: Immediately, there was chatter on underground forums and the dark web about the fact that this was a mistake. They can then distil down the products that were possibly used in that environment, and then compare against vulnerabilities that are either published or they can find on the dark web.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

Common users are not the only ones who have recognized the messaging app’s handy features — cybercrooks have already made it a branch of the dark web, their Telegram activity soaring since late 2021. Telegram has been gaining popularity with users around the world year by year. The service is especially popular with phishers.

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Phishing Marketing Scams Accountability 114

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Eventually, you will have to go hunting for it, at an inconvenient time, and data may get lost if it’s not properly tagged or otherwise categorized. To organize your data, choose a solution for unstructured volumes that also supports proper metadata or tagging procedures.

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Data breaches Big data Penetration Testing Cyber Attacks 75

Kali Linux

MAY 31, 2021

Metasploit-framework , Empire , or Exploit-DB ) so waiting for a tag release may not be an option You may then end up skipping the Kali package and compiling your favorite tool’s source-code. 0kali1 amd64 Fast web fuzzer written in Go (program) kali@kali:~$ kali@kali:~$ sudo apt install -y ffuf/kali-bleeding-edge. git20210505.1.f032167-0kali1~jan+nus1

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Additionally, dashboards share data about threat names, any relevant reference URLs, tags, adversary and malware families, and attack IDs. To submit malware URLs via the web, users must log in with Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, or GitHub, which will be publicly visible; the only way around this rule is to submit via API.

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Internet Internet Cybersecurity Malware 68

SecureList

OCTOBER 28, 2021

We started off by submitting several clean (benign) web pages — such as Wikipedia’s — to check what probabilities the models would return. We added popular header tags, such as <meta>, which somehow led to poorer results on the first three models. Less tags, more text. Obfuscation via byte integer encoding.

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Phishing Malware Architecture Technology 62

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware HPE is investigating claims of a new security breach Experts warn of a surge of attacks targeting Ivanti SSRF flaw How to hack the Airbus NAVBLUE Flysmart+ Manager Crooks stole $25.5

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google TAG has recently published a post about a campaign by Lazarus targeting security researchers. Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account. Log listing Webmin web interface logins. Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols. We named Lazarus the most active group of 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

After a successful attack, victims who refuse to pay the ransom have their details posted on dark web forums to make attacks public, increasing their notoriety and shaming the affected organizations.

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Ransomware Encryption Malware Backups 119

Kali Linux

MAY 15, 2022

Here is a preview of the upgraded Kali themes for gnome-shell: Kali-Dark : Kali-Light : GNOME 42’s Built-In Screenshot and Screencast Tool With GNOME 42, there is one new feature that is brighter than all of the others: the screenshot and screen-recording tool. Your browser does not support the video tag.

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Wireless Firmware Architecture Media 52

Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

The account also began tagging dozens of reporters and news organizations on Twitter. “And we’re wondering if maybe this is all an effort to raise the name recognition of the malware so the authors can then go on the Dark Web and advertise it.”

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Ransomware Accountability Malware Government 182

SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

Earlier in 2021, we looked at the dynamics of gaming-related web attacks over the course of the pandemic, identifying an increase in that sector. There are long lists of tags under each post, designed to place the target pages at the top of web search results. PLAYERUNKNOWN BATTLEGROUNDS. The Sims 4. Titanfall 2.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Here is a comparison of how zenmap ( zenmap-kbx package ) looks with the default Kali Dark theme, compared to the old appearance: New Tools in Kali It would not be a Kali release if there were not any new tools added! This allows the program to properly integrate with the rest of the desktop and avoids the usage of ugly fallback themes.

Social Engineering 52

Social Engineering VPN Architecture Engineering 52

SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Findings are spread across six categories: Web, Mobile, Cloud, Network, Code Repositories and Incidents that include Dark Web exposures. Figure 2 – A list of discovered web applications. From this screen it is possible to add tags and add additional assets. Figure 1 – The dashboard bits.

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Penetration Testing DNS Mobile Marketing 57

Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

It should be noted that it is the biggest sale of South Korean records on the dark web in 2020, which contributes to the growing popularity of APAC-issued card dumps in the underground. The database was comprised almost entirely of the payment records related to banks and financial organizations in South Korea and the US.

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Banking Advertising Risk Marketing 104

eSecurity Planet

MAY 14, 2021

They offer many similar features, including password generation, automatic form-filling, password analysis, and dark web monitoring. You can also create tags to group related items, like financial information and social media accounts, or favorite items you use frequently. Image: 1Password desktop and web apps on macOS.

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Password Management Passwords Mobile Accountability 57

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Vamosi: I know, it’s hard to think back, but remember these were the dark ages, before the graphical internet we know today. Vamosi: That changed in the early 1990s, with the graphical World Wide Web, with web browsers, and gradually with more direct access to the internet without the need for telephone modems.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Vamosi: I know, it’s hard to think back, but remember these were the dark ages, before the graphical internet we know today. Vamosi: That changed in the early 1990s, with the graphical World Wide Web, with web browsers, and gradually with more direct access to the internet without the need for telephone modems.

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Hacking InfoSec Internet Internet 40

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Vamosi: I know, it’s hard to think back, but remember these were the dark ages, before the graphical internet we know today. Vamosi: That changed in the early 1990s, with the graphical World Wide Web, with web browsers, and gradually with more direct access to the internet without the need for telephone modems.

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Hacking InfoSec Internet Internet 40

SecureList

JUNE 1, 2021

Kaspersky Safe Kids module included into our solutions for home users scans the contents of web pages that children try to visit. Web filtering in Kaspersky Safe Kids currently covers the following categories: Software, audio, video. How we collect our statistics. Website categorization. Internet communication. Videogames.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

Experts observed a spike in COVID-19 related malspam emails containing GuLoader Silent Night Zeus botnet available for sale in underground forums The Florida Unemployment System suffered a data breach Voter information for 2 millions of Indonesians leaked online 25 million Mathway user records available for sale on the dark web Online education site (..)

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Data breaches Ransomware Advertising Hacking 58

SecureList

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The actor compromised vulnerable web servers and uploaded several scripts to filter and control the malicious implants on successfully breached victim machines. On January 25, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) announced a state-sponsored threat actor had targeted security researchers.

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Malware Mobile Spyware Surveillance 101

ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

Perhaps you've heard about Silk Road, the online drug Emporium it was located on the dark web, meaning you had to use a special browser, the onion router or Tor to access it. The slip up was enough for law enforcement to unravel a carefully constructed web of deception. Had it worked, it might have been brilliant.

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Hacking Mobile Cryptocurrency VPN 52

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. You don't need to have hacker or criminal connections, you don't need to be on the dark web. There are literally dozens of other examples.

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Technology Software Surveillance Media 52

SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Maybe it just comes down to personal preference, but it seems like more security tools should embrace the dark mode trend. It quickly became clear that these were all Office365 resources – they nearly all have the ‘autodiscover’ CNAME and are helpfully tagged as “Microsoft Office 365” under Platforms.

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Marketing Risk Software Technology 53

Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

alphaMountain offers threat intelligence, web reputation, and content categorization collected and processed. It provides the user with the date and time the observable was seen in the log, the host that sent the log, and the tag and table names that contain the message. Read more here. The alphaMountain.ai Read more here.

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