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  Microsoft has released its own Linux distribution
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 22, 2021 0
  
  This week Microsoft posted on GitHub the first stable build of its own Linux distribution, CBL-Mariner (Common Base Linux), which was published under the open source...
  
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  Mercedes-Benz reports data breaches of 1.6 million customers
  
  Staff ThreatIT - June 29, 2021 0
  
  The American division of Mercedes-Benz has reported a data breach affecting some of the company's customers. The incident affected 1.6 million records that included customer names, addresses,...
  
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  Advertising of ransomware was banned on the XSS hacker forum
  
  Threat IT Staff - May 18, 2021 0
  
  The administration of the popular hacker forum XSS (formerly DaMaGeLab) has banned the advertising and sale of any ransomware on the site. Although groups such...
  
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  Microsoft Edge browser will warn users about “leaked” passwords
  
  Threat IT Staff - January 4, 2021 0
  
  The browser will constantly check the information against databases of information about declassified logins and passwords. Continuous monitoring of passwords will allow users to receive...
  
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  Game developer Koei Tecmo reported hack only after data leak
  
  Threat IT Staff - December 29, 2020 0
  
  apanese game developer Koei Tecmo reported a data breach and disabled its European and US websites after the stolen data was posted on a hacker forum...
Application Security
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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...
  
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  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...
  
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  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...
  
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  Trend Micro Vulnerabilities in IWSVA Web Gateway has been Fixed!
  
  Threat IT Staff - December 18, 2020 0
  
  The company Trend Micro this week sent out to customers update InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance (IWSVA) , which patches several serious vulnerabilities. A...
Vulnerabilities & Threats
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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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  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...
  
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  PrintNightmare vulnerability : Microsoft warns of attempts to exploit
  
  Threat IT Staff - July 2, 2021 0
  
  Microsoft has not announced when the patch for the vulnerability will be released. Microsoft has officially confirmed that the acclaimed remote code execution vulnerability known as PrintNightmare...
  
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  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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  Google Docs Vulnerability allowed to view other people’s documents
  
  Threat IT Staff - December 29, 2020 0
  
  Google has patched a vulnerability in its feedback tool used in its services. The vulnerability made it possible to steal screenshots of confidential documents from...
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...
  
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  Mitaka – Powerful OSINT Tool on Chrome
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 26, 2020 0
  
  When trying to search the IOC (Indicator of Compromise) for IP addresses, domains, hash values, etc. with OSINT services (Shodan, Censys, VirusTotal, etc.), do...
Risk & Compliance
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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...
  
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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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  RCE vulnerability found in CWA app to track COVID-19 spread
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 23, 2020 0
  
  An issue has been identified in the infrastructure that powers the Corona-Warn-App on Android and iOS. Experts from GitHub Security Labs have discovered a critical...
Attacks & Breaches
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  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...
  
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  Nissan source code leaked due to admin: admin credentials
  
  Threat IT Staff - January 11, 2021 0
  
  The source code of mobile applications and internal tools of the North American division of Nissan has been leaked to the network. The leak occurred...
  
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  Ho.mobile Data Breach – Ho.Mobile Users Data are being Sold on Darknet
  
  Threat IT Staff - January 4, 2021 0
  
  In the last days of 2020, rumors about the theft of data from 2.5 million ho.mobile users have raised many concerns, and it seems that the...
  
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  Microsoft has identified the ultimate target of hackers hacked into SolarWinds
  
  Threat IT Staff - December 30, 2020 0
  
  According to Microsoft experts, the ultimate goal of the hackers who hacked SolarWinds was to gain access to the cloud assets of the victims...
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...
  
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  TLS Encryption at risk?
  
  Threat IT Staff - September 11, 2020 0
  
  The Transport Layer Security (TLS) might just be not so secure thanks to new vulnerability that could potentially allow an attacker to break the...
Innovations
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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...
  
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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
  
  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...
  
  Artificial Intelligence
  
  Machine Learning in Malware Analysis
  
  Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 25, 2020 2
  
  Many different deep network architectures have been suggested by machine learning experts and malware analysts to detect both known and unknown malware. There has...
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...
  
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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 ================================================================ _______ .___ ___. .______ ...
  
  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...
  
  Articles
  
  Mitaka – Powerful OSINT Tool on Chrome
  
  Threat IT Staff - November 26, 2020 0
  
  When trying to search the IOC (Indicator of Compromise) for IP addresses, domains, hash values, etc. with OSINT services (Shodan, Censys, VirusTotal, etc.), do...

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Microsoft releases unscheduled patch for PrintNightmare vulnerability

Microsoft has prepared an emergency patch for a critical PrintNightmare bug recently discovered in Windows Print Spooler (spoolsv.exe). A lot of confusion has arisen around...

Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 7, 2021 0

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Hackers hacked e-mails of dozens of Polish parliament members

The attacks were carried out as part of a broader malicious campaign called Ghostwriter. The emails of about a dozen members of the Polish parliament...

Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 6, 2021 0

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Unofficial patch for PrintNightmare vulnerability

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...

Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 6, 2021 0

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TrickBot developers is linked with Diavol ransomware

Fortinet specialists published a report in which they report that the creators of the well-known malware TrickBot (this hack group is usually called the Wizard Spider)...

Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 6, 2021 0

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PrintNightmare got a new CVE ID but not a patch

Earlier this week, we reported that a PoC exploit for a dangerous vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler (spoolsv.exe) appeared on the network, which the researchers dubbed...

Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 5, 2021 0

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CVE-2021-34527 : PrintNightmare Vulnerability, Exploit and Remediation

Vulnerability A PoC exploit for a dangerous vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler (spoolsv.exe) has been published online. This bug has ID CVE-2021-1675 or is named PrintNightmare. It was patched...

Jim Koohyar Biniyaz - July 4, 2021 0

Articles

PrintNightmare vulnerability : Microsoft warns of attempts to exploit

Microsoft has not announced when the patch for the vulnerability will be released. Microsoft has officially confirmed that the acclaimed remote code execution vulnerability known as PrintNightmare...

Threat IT Staff - July 2, 2021 0

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Authorities shut down DoubleVPN service popular with hackers

As a result of an international law enforcement operation led by Europol, the Russian VPN service DoubleVPN, which is very popular among cybercriminals, was...

Threat IT Staff - July 2, 2021 0

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