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NEW TECH: DigiCert Document Signing Manager leverages PKI to advance electronic signatures

The Last Watchdog

Most of us, by now, take electronic signatures for granted. Popular services, like DocuSign and Adobe Sign, have established themselves as convenient, familiar tools to conduct daily commerce, exclusively online. Yet electronic signatures do have their security limitations. Achieving high assurance.

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UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

Krebs on Security

The NCA says all of its fake so-called “booter” or “stresser” sites — which have so far been accessed by several thousand people — have been created to look like they offer the tools and services that enable cyber criminals to execute these attacks. ” the NCA announcement continues. According to U.S.

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Supply-Chain Attack against the Electron Development Platform

Schneier on Security

Electron is a cross-platform development system for many popular communications apps, including Skype, Slack, and WhatsApp. The vulnerability is not part of the applications themselves but of the underlying Electron framework -- ­and that vulnerability allows malicious activities to be hidden within processes that appear to be benign.

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Russia-linked APT28 used new malware in a recent phishing campaign

Security Affairs

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a new cyber espionage campaign carried out by the Russia-linked group APT28 (aka “ Forest Blizzard ”, “ Fancybear ” or “ Strontium ”). MASEPIE is a Python tool used to upload/unload files and execute commands. The tool relies on the IMAP protocol as a control channel.

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Free Tool: Honey Feed

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity expert Marco Ramilli shared another tool of his arsenal that extracts suspicious IPs from undesired connections, his HoneyPots. Hi folks, today I’d like to point you out another tool of mine which extracts suspicious IPs from undesired connections. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security expert Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool

Security Affairs

Malware researcher Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool a simple but interesting catching tool base on static YARA rules. Malware researcher Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool a simple but interesting catching tool base on static YARA rules. Malware Static Analysis.

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Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison

Security Affairs

Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” ” In July 2022, Schulte was found guilty in a New York federal court of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks in 2017. . District Judge Jesse M.