Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

For example for i in */.json; 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. I’ve also been encharged of testing uVote voting system from the Italian Minister of homeland security.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

But we have many teaching processes, for example we have Universities teaching process which is mainly based on scientific evidences, Certifications teaching process which is mainly focused on procedures and tool sets, Camp teaching process which is mainly focused on relational approach (a.k.a Section 4: The ignorance.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

When you press the power button you are providing the right power to every electronic chips who needs it. For example %cx could be: 0x0000if msg is printed, 0x0001 if msg2 is printed, 0x0002 if msg3 is printed and 0x0003 if we want to start the clock printing loop. How the PC boot process works ? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

First of all the attacker knew the target organization was protected by a SOC (Security Operation Center) so she sent a well crafted email claiming to deliver a Microsoft document wrapping out the weekly SOC report as a normal activity in order to induce the victim to open-it. Emotet Depacked. Conclusion.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 21, 2015

On October 8, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“CalECPA”). The government also must obtain a warrant before requiring a business to produce an individual’s electronic information.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sustes (Mr.sh) is a nice example of Pirate-Mining and even if it’s hard to figure out its magnitude, since the attacker built-up private pool-proxies, I believe it’s interesting to fix wallet address in memories and to share IoC for future Protection. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The emails were disguised to look as if they come from the Central Bank of Russia and FinCERT, the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team. In March 2016, for example, cybercriminals sent phishing emails from info@fincert.net. All messages sent via email contain FinCERT’s electronic signature.”.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Two notable examples are Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B Later in that decade, Frederick Terman returned to Stanford from Harvard as dean of the engineering school and encouraged the development of electronics in local businesses. and Tenable, which went public in 2018 with a market capitalization of approximately $4 billion.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. For more technical details, please have a look here.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Some analyzed threats examples include: Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection , Spreading CVS Malware over Google , Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper , MalHIDE , Info Stealing: a New Operation in the Wild , Advanced All in Memory CryptoWorm , etc. Sub RunDLL() DownloadDLL Dim Str As String Str = "C:WindowsSystem32rundll32.exe

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Group-IB security experts are warning about the increasing scammers’ activity during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales. Fake leather bags, sunglasses, sportswear, electronics and perfumes pose risks to consumers. How to avoid online scammers: protect your brand & secure your wallet. Long Beach press conference.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For example the theseus function is obfuscated with “divine terms”, one of my favorite was actually the following conditional branch: If pastorale / quetzalcoatl < 57 Then …, which actually was always true ! I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

When you press the power button you are providing the right power to every electronic chips who needs it. For example %cx could be: 0x0000 if msg is printed, 0x0001 if msg2 is printed, 0x0002 if msg3 is printed and 0x0003 if we want to start the clock printing loop. How the PC boot process works ? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

As usually, I am not going to show you who was able to detect it compared to the one who wasn’t, since I won’t ending on wrong a declaration such as (for example): “Marco said that X is better than Y” Anyway, having the hash file I believe it would be enough to search for such information. AntiVirus Coverage.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". Mister Chairman and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today concerning the security of credit data. My name is Bruce Schneier, and I am a security technologist. Before the. Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 23, 2018

Whether it’s creating and securing electronic records or establishing a process to capture records from social media sites, records managers often find themselves working closely with their Information Technology (IT) Departments. One example was, archives to records management are records of enduring value.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 2015 amendments to Rule 26(b)(1), however, were meant to resolve any doubt, returning the proportionality factors to their original place as part of the very definition of what is discoverable. The principle of proportionality in civil discovery is hardly new.4 5 In keeping with that aim, the scope of discovery has always been cabined.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals. Could we hack into an airplane, for example. After the NTSB released its 2015 report about aircraft hacking, very little action came of it.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For example from 2017 to early 2018 APT28 used specific techniques such as: T1251 , T1329 , T1336 and T1319. While system persistence could be guaranteed in many different ways, for example by periodically exploiting a RCE vulnerability, persistence in case of Malware attacks is typically named: “Installation”. Weaponization Timeline.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For example, a simple system that has only an on off switch. Often the tiny flashing light on the dashboard also alerts would-be criminals that the car is protected by the latest form of anti theft security. A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. Lacking any formal computer training.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

A simple example. This observation perfectly fits the public mainstream information which sees many security magazines and many vendors observing such an increment as well. Mostly spread over COVID#19 malspam for example: SecurityAffairs , BankInfoSecurity , ThreatPOST , FortiNet. Let’s assume we want to investigate LokiBot.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

Cyber security expert and founder of Yoroi has published a new tool that could be used to spot APTs (A dvanced Persistent Threats) through Malware streams. 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

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Experts at Yoroi’s Cyber Security Defence Center along with Fincantieri’s security team investigated the recently discovered Martymcfly malware attacks. Having said that we would like to thanks colleagues of Fincantieri’s security team for sharing data about these attacks, helping us in the investigation of this threat.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2022

A lot of modern communications, for example, have their origins in the 19th century, such as the telegraph, which required wires to be strung around the world. Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all security. And on November 9 2015, a Google Doodle celebrated Lamarr’s 100 and first birthday.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Security researcher Marco Ramilli analyzed a new Coronavirus (COVID-19)-themed attack gathering evidence of the alleged involvement of an APT group. Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) comprises a set of systems-management technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). Some domain names and some IPs are used as configuration example. Source: MISP Project ). The following image shows the suggested Solution.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli analyzed similarities and differences between the MuddyWater and APT34 cyberespionage groups. For example APT34 uses the “real” multi-line, while MuddyWater abuses the multi-line exploiting its auto-escape indirect proprieties. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2018

Since blogging is not my business, I do write on my personal blog to share knowledge on Cyber Security, I will describe some of the main steps that took me to own the attacker infrastructure. C:WindowssysWOW64wbemwmiprvse.exe -secured -Embedding. C:Windowssystem32wbemwmiprvse.exe -secured -Embedding. ?C:Windowssystem32wbemWMIADAP.EXE

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Adam Shostack

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Capture the Flag Events (CTFs) and electronic Sports (eSports) are good examples of a relatively new trend. Fast forward to 2019, permanent venues and bars are now dedicated to the phenomena, with some great examples such as the eSports Arena in Las Vegas and Meltdown , an international franchise of eSports bars. Spoiler alert!

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 19, 2017

The GAO also convened a number of expert meetings during the drafting process, bringing together experts from various disciplines, including computer science, security, privacy, law, economics, physics, and product development. For example, the price of sensors has significantly declined over the past decade. Cloud computing.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

agencies and security experts warn about a possible cybersecurity infiltration from Iranian government and alert to increase cybersecurity defensive levels. For example by using: user credential leaks, social engineering toolkits, targeted phishing, and so on and so forth or is more on there to be discovered ?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Electronic Things. Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Electronic Things. Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. As I got older, I started to play around with computers. By then there were computer games, and at that time it wasn’t the single shooter games.

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The Texas Record

MAY 7, 2018

We are happy to welcome guest writers from the Texas Department of Information Resources, Daniel Hankins, Shared Services Security Manager and Andy Bennett, Director Information Security Governance. For additional resources from the Texas Department of Information and Resources visit their Information Security page. [1]

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APRIL 17, 2020

The term cyber refers, by and large, to the virtual world of ICT, the Internet and computers. individuals, security researchers, organizations, and businesses) that could gather and exchange information about cyber threats. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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