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News
- News
  
  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...
  
  Articles
  
  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...
  
  News
  
  Cyberattack suspends banks in New Zealand
  
  Staff ThreatIT - September 8, 2021 0
  
  At the moment, it is unclear who is behind the cyberattack and whether it resulted in a data breach. On Wednesday, September 8, a cyberattack...
Application Security
- Application Security
  
  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...
  
  Application Security
  
  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...
  
  Application Security
  
  Google urged Chromium developers to ditch Windows 7
  
  Threat IT Staff - December 28, 2020 0
  
  Eleven months after Microsoft officially ended technical support for the Windows 7 operating system, Google finally called on the Chromium developers to stop using the OS. “I...
  
  Application Security
  
  Critical WordPress bug in Contact Form 7 plugin – More Than 5,000,000 installations
  
  Threat IT Staff - December 18, 2020 0
  
  The developers of the popular Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin, which is installed on more than 5,000,000 sites, have released a fix for a...
Vulnerabilities & Threats
- Articles
  
  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...
  
  Articles
  
  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...
  
  Application Security
  
  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...
  
  Articles
  
  Unofficial patch for PrintNightmare vulnerability
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 6, 2021 0
  
  Last week, we reported that a PoC exploit appeared on the network for the dangerous vulnerability CVE-2021-34527 in Windows Print Spooler (spoolsv.exe), which the researchers named...
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...
  
  Articles
  
  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...
  
  Articles
  
  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
- Articles
  
  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...
  
  Articles
  
  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...
  
  Network-Security
  
  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....
Attacks & Breaches
- Articles
  
  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...
  
  Articles
  
  Vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers Attacked by Prometei Botnet
  
  Threat IT Staff - April 25, 2021 0
  
  Since the patches for ProxyLogon problems were still not fully installed, attackers continue to attack vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers. Now researchers from Cybereason Nocturnus have discovered the Prometei botnet, which mines Monero cryptocurrency on vulnerable machines.
  
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  Attackers use the GitHub server infrastructure for cryptomining
  
  Threat IT Staff - April 5, 2021 0
  
  The web service for hosting IT projects GitHub is investigating a series of attacks on its cloud infrastructure, in which cybercriminals use the company's...
Critical Infrastructure
- Articles
  
  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
- Network-Security
  
  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
- Articles
  
  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...
  
  Articles
  
  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
- Network-Security
  
  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...
  
  Network-Security
  
  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...
  
  Network-Security
  
  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....
  
  Network-Security
  
  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
- All Artificial Intelligence Big Data
  
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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...
  
  Network-Security
  
  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
  
  Threat Intelligence Automation
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - August 3, 2020 0
  
  Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is a framework and technology that generates intelligence that can, or will respond to cyber threat attacks that are now...
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...
  
  Articles
  
  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...
  
  Articles
  
  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 ================================================================ _______ .___ ___. .______ ...
  
  Articles
  
  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...

Network-Security

More than 45 million medical scans are in the public domain

A study by CybelAngel, a risk management services company, helped identify a massive leak of confidential information . The aim of the study was...

Staff ThreatIT - December 16, 2020 0

Articles

New Kerberos Exploit for Bronze Bit attack Has Been Published

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...

Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - December 11, 2020 0

Articles

Why Is It Important To Have Intrusion Detection And Prevention ?

This article describes why detection and prevention of burglaries must be one of the most important aspects of any burglary protection and detection system....

Threat IT Staff - November 24, 2020 0

Articles

MASSCAN: Mass IP port scanner

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...

Threat IT Staff - November 12, 2020 0

Articles

TLS Encryption at risk?

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) might just be not so secure thanks to new vulnerability that could potentially allow an attacker to break the...

Threat IT Staff - September 11, 2020 0

Articles

Dell PowerEdge Server, trouble on the horizion?

Crisis averted for Dell PowerEdge servers, after a group of researchers disclosed details of a recently patched, high-severity flaw, which if exploited could allow...

Threat IT Staff - August 2, 2020 0

Articles

Network Vulnerability Assessment ? Why Should Every Company Do it at least once a Year !

Network vulnerability assessment analyzes a variety of network issues, prioritizes the most important (such as network security, network integrity, and network performance), and then...

Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 28, 2020 0