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  50% reduction in Google account hacks after enabling 2SV
  
  Threat IT Staff - February 9, 2022 0
  
  One of the main problems is the lack of understanding by users of the benefits of additional authorization procedures. It turns out that with just...
  
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  Chinese hack group GhostEmperor uses new rootkit against Windows 10
  
  Threat IT Staff - October 3, 2021 0
  
  At the SAS 2021 conference, Kaspersky Lab analysts spoke about the tools of the new Chinese cyber-espionage group GhostEmperor, which has been attacking large organizations in Southeast Asia...
  
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  Google developers told how they will implement Manifest V3
  
  Staff ThreatIT - September 27, 2021 0
  
  This week, Google revealed exactly how it plans to phase out Manifest V2, which defines the capabilities and limitations for extensions in Chrome. The developers also shared...
  
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  DDoS service operator DownThem faces up to 35 years in prison
  
  Threat IT Staff - September 21, 2021 0
  
  A California jury found a former DDoS service administrator (DownThem and Ampnode) guilty. Paid users of these services have carried out over 200,000 DDoS attacks both on...
Application Security
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  About 30% of critical vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins remain unpatched
  
  Staff ThreatIT - March 15, 2022 0
  
  Patchstack analysts have released a report on WordPress security in 2021. Unfortunately, the picture turned out to be depressing, for example, it turned out that 29% of...
  
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  WordPress plugins and themes used to inject backdoors
  
  Threat IT Staff - January 25, 2022 0
  
  A massive attack on the supply chain affected 93 WordPress themes and plugins that were embedded with backdoors that gave attackers full access to...
  
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  Chrome 0-day vulnerability – 8th Vulnerability this year
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 19, 2021 0
  
  Google developers have released an updated version of the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux ( 91.0.4472.164 ), which eliminated a zero-day vulnerability in the...
  
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  CVE-2021-3452 – Lenovo patches a vulnerability affecting dozens of ThinkPad models
  
  Threat IT Staff - July 16, 2021 0
  
  Lenovo has released information on three BIOS vulnerabilities in two desktop models and approximately 60 different notebook computers. The first issue, identified as CVE-2021-3452, threatens dozens of...
Vulnerabilities & Threats
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  Synology and QNAP warn about bugs in their products
  
  Threat IT Staff - May 2, 2022 0
  
  Companies have reported numerous critical Netatalk server vulnerabilities. Based on a published report , multiple flaws allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and possibly execute arbitrary...
  
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  Fresh bug in VMware vCenter is already under attack
  
  Staff ThreatIT - September 28, 2021 0
  
  An exploit for the recently fixed RCE vulnerability in VMware vCenter (CVE-2021-22005) has been published online. Experts warned that hackers had already adopted the exploit. The...
  
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  Attackers scan the network looking for Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to ProxyShell
  
  Staff ThreatIT - August 10, 2021 0
  
  Recently at the Black Hat conference, they talked about the remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange, collectively known as ProxyShell. Now experts are warning...
  
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  Chrome 0-day vulnerability – 8th Vulnerability this year
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 19, 2021 0
  
  Google developers have released an updated version of the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux ( 91.0.4472.164 ), which eliminated a zero-day vulnerability in the...
Tutorials & Tools
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  Metasploit with Docker and Kubernetes
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 29, 2020 0
  
  The purpose of this article is to make it easy to build a penetration test environment without any other complicated settings as long as...
  
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  Credentials for 50 thousand Fortinet VPN devices published online
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 27, 2020 0
  
  Last weekend, one of the hacker forums posted exploits for a vulnerability in Fortinet VPN devices ( CVE-2018-13379 ) and the IP addresses of...
  
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  How To Use Powershell Empire
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 27, 2020 0
  
  Initial setup Build a C2 server called listener ================================================================ Post-Exploitation Framework ================================================================ 2.5 | https://github.com/empireProject/Empire ================================================================ _______ .___ ___. .______ ...
  
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  Scan Open Ports With Nmap – Full Tutorial
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 26, 2020 0
  
  1 What is nmap? Nmap, short for Network Mapper, is a free, open-source tool for vulnerability scanning and network discovery. Network administrators use Nmap to...
Risk & Compliance
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  Choosing an IAM Solution: Are You Paying Attention to the Right Things?
  
  Staff ThreatIT - February 22, 2022 0
  
  Ever considered how many passwords are used by employees in your organization? And how many workers cannot remember their secret character set and write it...
  
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  Privacy-focused ClearURLs extension removed from Chrome Web Store
  
  Threat IT Staff - March 25, 2021 0
  
  Edition Bleeping Computer Note that the browser-based extension ClearURLs, clearing URL-addresses from any tracker, designed for surveillance and intelligence, has been removed from Chrome Web Store. ClearURLs...
  
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  Ledger Crypto Data Breach – 270,000 Wallet Owners Data has been leaked
  
  Threat IT Staff - December 21, 2020 0
  
  A hacker forum found a database containing email addresses and physical addresses of the owners of Ledger hardware wallets, according to Bleeping Computer . Journalists remind that...
  
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  Cellebrite learned how to hack Signal correspondence
  
  Threat IT Staff - December 16, 2020 0
  
  Israeli company Cellebrite , which specializes in hacking smartphones, said that it can now extract user messages in the Signal messenger, which is considered...
Attacks & Breaches
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  Fodcha botnet attacks over 100 victims daily
  
  Threat IT Staff - April 15, 2022 0
  
  Qihoo 360 (360 Netlab) experts report the discovery of a new Fodcha botnet that launches DDoS attacks on hundreds of victims every day. According to the company,...
  
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  Microsoft has recorded a record DDoS attack, with a capacity of 3.47 Tb / s
  
  Threat IT Staff - January 27, 2022 0
  
  Microsoft said last November its DDoS protection platform repelled a massive DDoS attack targeting an Azure customer in Asia. The attack power was 3.47 Tb/s. Let...
  
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  The number of attacks on Microsoft Exchange Server grew by 170% in a month
  
  Staff ThreatIT - September 7, 2021 0
  
  Kaspersky Lab researchers report that in August 2021, the company's products blocked 19,839 attacks on users of Microsoft Exchange servers. The surge in malicious activity...
  
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  Attackers scan the network looking for Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to ProxyShell
  
  Staff ThreatIT - August 10, 2021 0
  
  Recently at the Black Hat conference, they talked about the remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange, collectively known as ProxyShell. Now experts are warning...
Critical Infrastructure
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  Critical Infrastructure Warning! Millions of PLCs, switches, IoT devices are under threat
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - December 18, 2020 0
  
  Eleven vulnerabilities, combined under the name Urgent / 11, were made public in August 2019. Five bugs with the general name CDPwn showed up...
  
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  33 vulnerabilities threaten millions of Critical Infrastructure
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - December 10, 2020 0
  
  Cybersecurity researchers have found 33 vulnerabilities in four open source TCP / IP libraries. Currently, problematic libraries are used in the firmware of products...
  
  Cyber Security
  
  The risk is real: attacks on OT infrastructure
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - November 11, 2020 0
  
  Previously, many believed that attacks on an isolated OT infrastructure (Operational Technology) were practically impossible, since everything works in a special network, separate from...
Endpoint Security
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  Why Is It Important To Have Intrusion Detection And Prevention ?
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 24, 2020 0
  
  This article describes why detection and prevention of burglaries must be one of the most important aspects of any burglary protection and detection system....
  
  Cyber Security
  
  Comodo has published the EDR source code on GitHub
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 15, 2020 0
  
  Comodo this week opened the source for its Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) system. Thus, the company became the first major vendor to take...
IoT Security
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  Serious bugs fixed in D-Link routers
  
  Threat IT Staff - December 10, 2020 0
  
  This summer, Digital Defense specialists discovered that a number of D-Link router models were vulnerable to command injection, including remote ones. Initially, problems were found in DSR-250...
  
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  Scientists turn a robot vacuum cleaner into a spy device
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 25, 2020 0
  
  Household robotic vacuum cleaners can be hacked remotely and eavesdropped on conversations, even if they don't have a microphone. The researchers collected information from a...
  
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  New Bluetooth attack can hijack Tesla Model X in minutes
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 24, 2020 0
  
  Tesla is using over the air updates to patch vulnerabilities and add new features to its keyless entry system in Tesla Model X vehicles....
  
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  IoT Security – Why is it Important?
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - August 10, 2020 0
  
  IoT or Internet of Things are connected devices, including hardware, software and data. IoT Security It is a technology area that deals with the...
Network Security
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  More than 45 million medical scans are in the public domain
  
  Staff ThreatIT - December 16, 2020 0
  
  A study by CybelAngel, a risk management services company, helped identify a massive leak of confidential information . The aim of the study was...
  
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  New Kerberos Exploit for Bronze Bit attack Has Been Published
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - December 11, 2020 0
  
  NetSPI security specialist Jake Karnes has published detailed information ( 1 , 2 ) about the CVE-2020-17049 vulnerability, as well as an exploit for it, calling his attack Kerberos Bronze...
  
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  Why Is It Important To Have Intrusion Detection And Prevention ?
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 24, 2020 0
  
  This article describes why detection and prevention of burglaries must be one of the most important aspects of any burglary protection and detection system....
  
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  MASSCAN: Mass IP port scanner
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 12, 2020 0
  
  This is an Internet-scale port scanner. It can scan the entire Internet in under 6 minutes, transmitting 10 million packets per second, from a...
Innovations
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  What is Advanced Threat Protection, and can you fully rely on it?
  
  Threat IT Staff - May 3, 2022 0
  
  ATP or advanced threat protection is a premiere suite of analytical tools and malware protection systems that protect against phishing attacks, security threats, and...
  
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  Choosing an IAM Solution: Are You Paying Attention to the Right Things?
  
  Staff ThreatIT - February 22, 2022 0
  
  Ever considered how many passwords are used by employees in your organization? And how many workers cannot remember their secret character set and write it...
  
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  Google has developed a rating system for open source projects
  
  Threat IT Staff - December 14, 2020 0
  
  As part of its participation in the Open-Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), Google has developed a system for ranking open source projects based on their importance to...
Tutorial and Tools
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  Metasploit with Docker and Kubernetes
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 29, 2020 0
  
  The purpose of this article is to make it easy to build a penetration test environment without any other complicated settings as long as...
  
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  Credentials for 50 thousand Fortinet VPN devices published online
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 27, 2020 0
  
  Last weekend, one of the hacker forums posted exploits for a vulnerability in Fortinet VPN devices ( CVE-2018-13379 ) and the IP addresses of...
  
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  How To Use Powershell Empire
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 27, 2020 0
  
  Initial setup Build a C2 server called listener ================================================================ Post-Exploitation Framework ================================================================ 2.5 | https://github.com/empireProject/Empire ================================================================ _______ .___ ___. .______ ...
  
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  Scan Open Ports With Nmap – Full Tutorial
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 26, 2020 0
  
  1 What is nmap? Nmap, short for Network Mapper, is a free, open-source tool for vulnerability scanning and network discovery. Network administrators use Nmap to...

Articles

Conti ransomware stops working and splits into several groups

Experts report that the Conti ransomware group has ceased operations, its infrastructure is disabled, and the leaders of the group have said that the...

Staff ThreatIT - May 21, 2022 0

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The emergence of cheap DarkCrystal RAT worried experts

Researchers from BlackBerry conducted an analysis of the DarkCrystal RAT (aka DCRat) malware and the activity of its developer on the dark web. Apparently, the malware has...

Threat IT Staff - May 13, 2022 0

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What is Advanced Threat Protection, and can you fully rely on it?

ATP or advanced threat protection is a premiere suite of analytical tools and malware protection systems that protect against phishing attacks, security threats, and...

Threat IT Staff - May 3, 2022 0

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Synology and QNAP warn about bugs in their products

Companies have reported numerous critical Netatalk server vulnerabilities. Based on a published report , multiple flaws allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and possibly execute arbitrary...

Threat IT Staff - May 2, 2022 0

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Quantum ransomware operators carried out the attack in almost 4 hours

The attackers used the IcedID malware as one of their initial access vectors. Quantum ransomware, first discovered in August 2021, has been used in fast network attacks. The...

Staff ThreatIT - April 26, 2022 0

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ZingoStealer malware is distributed among criminals for free

Cisco Talos experts have discovered the ZingoStealer malware, which is distributed for free by the Haskers Gang hacker group. The malware is capable of stealing confidential information...

Staff ThreatIT - April 19, 2022 0

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Fodcha botnet attacks over 100 victims daily

Qihoo 360 (360 Netlab) experts report the discovery of a new Fodcha botnet that launches DDoS attacks on hundreds of victims every day. According to the company,...

Threat IT Staff - April 15, 2022 0

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RaidForums: Law enforcement officers closed the hacker Forum

During the international operation TOURNIQUET , which was coordinated by Europol, the well-known hacker resource RaidForums, which was mainly used to trade in stolen databases, was...

Threat IT Staff - April 13, 2022 0

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