Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Using our threat intelligence systems and honeypot, the Uptycs threat research team identified different kinds of payloads dropped on the vulnerable servers. The kinsing shell script also contains the docker related commands which kills already running miner processes (if any are present) on the victim system. DDoS botnet payloads.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

“Through ongoing analysis of honeypot traffic, Talos detected an increase in attacks targeting unsecured Elasticsearch clusters. These attacks leverage CVE-2014-3120 and CVE-2015-1427, both of which are only present in old versions of Elasticsearch and exploit the ability to pass scripts to search queries.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

With top names in IOT (Paras/Nexus/Wicked) being inactive, Scarface/Faraday is presently a go to name for script kiddies for buying IoT botnet code as well as weaponized exploits. Scarface, the propagator of this code has also deployed his custom backdoor to hack any script kiddie who will be using the script.

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IT Governance

MAY 10, 2023

According to Check Point’s data group manager, Omer Dembinsky, these scams present “two main potential problems here for enterprises”. Meanwhile, these threats present another reason to be cautious over the use of ChatGPT.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The analysis of command and control (C&C) traffic allowed the security researchers finding the IRC channels’ information and discovered that at the first infection 142 hosts were present in the IRC channel. This server seemed to have a certain importance as it was also used to distribute an early version of this N3-Shellbot.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

In my previous post I discussed the initial prototyping of a Docker Honeypot / Sandbox called Whaler. Note: I’d previously documented this as a presentation which I’ve been using in job interviews – key slides are extracted and covered below. Introduction. As of today (20 Sept) the campaign is still active. Ngrok cumulative profit.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This vulnerability, which is being widely exploited by a growing set of threat actors, presents an urgent challenge to network defenders given its broad use,” she said. Easterly urged federal and other government agencies as well as private companies to patch the flaw – which carries the highest severity rating – as quickly as possible.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

From the InsightIDR home dashboard, administrators can see metrics like users, events processed, notable behaviors, new alerts, honeypots, and more. Built by the Rapid7 security team, InsightIDR is often considered an alternative to legacy or on-premises SIEM products.

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Brandeis Records Manager

JULY 28, 2016

I recently presented an RM program review to my Brandeis library colleagues and noted this rather strange RM fit: humanities research, cultural heritage, instructional design, open scholarly access, and… RETENTION SCHEDULE?! Your industry may dictate your relationship with your library people, if you even have a relationship with them.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

They typically involve presenting users with a task that is easy for a human to solve but difficult for a bot, such as identifying jumbled letters or selecting correct images from a set of options. There are different ways to implement a bot protection solution at different levels, which includes the network, application, and user levels.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

Considerations about past, present, and future of the Dark Web. The dark web is full of honeypots. It is also impossible to determine the diffusion of honeypots. Or is the Dark Web itself a honeypot for criminals, anarchists, terrorists and. Which is the difference between the Deep Web and Dark Web? CONCLUSIONS.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The -d parameter is not present in the help menu, this is an indicator that this tool maybe is under development and is not yet mature (due to the presence of debug information), but “works as expected”. Figure 19: Distribution of unique IP addresses present in the downloaded list.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of coin miner that targets the Linux platform and installs the XMR-Stak Cryptonight cryptocurrency miner, researchers observed it killing other Linux malware and coin miners present on the infected machine. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

All access control systems should perform both authorization and authentication: Authentication requires the user to present data, like a PIN, password, or biometric scan, to prove they are who they say they are. Honeypots A computer system specifically designed to trap attackers is called a honeypot.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

If a blockchain user completes a transaction via a web browser, they could unknowingly be presenting sensitive details to a browser hijacker or keylogger. Going back to RSA 2018’s Cryptographers’ Panel , it was the ‘S’ in RSA, Adi Samir, who said blockchain could address threats presented by quantum computing.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Deception technology using honeypots and similar subterfuge can trigger proactive alerts of both hackers and authorized users that might be attempting to perform malicious actions. Unexpected accidental or malicious changes to network systems will be caught more quickly and more effective when using change control.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

What happened to us before we were doing a presentation for a sans conference, and so we're putting together material on compromising containers and how you can do that and how you can use that to laterally move across your cloud state to basically use that initial access to gain access to wider systems.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even so, he said, several fraudsters each month present themselves as credible business owners or C-level executives during the credentialing process, completing the application and providing the necessary documentation to open a new account. In this case we let them in to honeypot them, and that’s how they got that screenshot.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. And then there's their they didn't have any tradecraft training on social media and not just social media, but how they present themselves online. Let's analyze stuff. Let's analyze malware. Let's analyze exploits. That was really fun.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

From the post: “[Facebook’s ad model is] the honeypot which drives the economics of spambots and fake news, it’s the at-scale algorithmic enabler which attracts information warriors from competing nation states, and it’s the reason the platform has become a dopamine-driven engagement trap where time is often not well spent. .”

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