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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com. ” he observed.

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State-sponsored hackers are using COVID-19 lures, Google warns

Security Affairs

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared its latest findings related to state-backed attacks and revealed that it has identified more than a dozen state-sponsored groups using COVID-19 lures. The following image shows location of users targeted by government-backed COVID-19 related attacks. government employees.

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TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies

Security Affairs

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 ! The infrastructure used in the attacks suggests the involvement of the cybercrime group TA505. net http[://com-mk84.net.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? There are literally dozens of other examples. Welcome to the hacker mind, in original podcast from for all security. What role does technology play in facilitating intimate partner abuse? So here's the thing, SpyPhone is not an isolated incident.

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A Soccer Field on the Data Center, Chickens in the Parking Lot - in Northern Virginia

Interactive Information Management

Does this concentration of sensitive, valuable information pose a physical, critical infrastructure security threat to my community? Note that this argument applies to any community with significant Data Center facilities investment – though Northern Virginia is a particularly large, influential and quickly-growing example.)

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

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. I've got a lot of industry certifications, but having all those paper degrees proved to be a poor equivalent to having actual hands on experience in information security.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

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. I've got a lot of industry certifications, but having all those paper degrees proved to be a poor equivalent to having actual hands on experience in information security.