cyberweapons

Jan
09
[SecurityAffairs] Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea

[SecurityAffairs] Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea

Security researcher Greg Lesnewich discovered a backdoor, called SpectralBlur, that targets Apple macOS.
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Nov
17
[darkreading] Rackspace Ransomware Costs Soar to Nearly $12M

[darkreading] Rackspace Ransomware Costs Soar to Nearly $12M

Rackspace's 2022 ransomware attack costs only continue to mount, with lawsuits in the offing — and show the long-tail costs of a cyberattack.
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Jun
19
[Microsoft] Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

[Microsoft] Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

Beginning in early June 2023, Microsoft identified surges in traffic against some services that temporarily impacted availability. Microsoft promptly opened an investigation and subsequently began tracking ongoing DDoS activity by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-1359.
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May
28
[TheHackerNews] Predator Android Spyware: Researchers Uncover New Data Theft Capabilities

[TheHackerNews] Predator Android Spyware: Researchers Uncover New Data Theft Capabilities

Security researchers analyze Predator, an Android spyware marketed by Intellexa. It exploits zero-day flaws, records audio, collects messages, and poses a threat to privacy. Similar spyware like Pegasus is increasingly abused, impacting civil society.
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Apr
03
[SentinelOne] Dissecting AlienFox | The Cloud Spammer’s Swiss Army Knife

[SentinelOne] Dissecting AlienFox | The Cloud Spammer’s Swiss Army Knife

SentinelLabs has identified a new toolkit dubbed AlienFox that attackers are using to compromise email and web hosting services. AlienFox is highly modular and evolves regularly.
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Feb
28
[KitPloit] IpGeo - Tool To Extract IP Addresses From Captured Network Traffic File

[KitPloit] IpGeo - Tool To Extract IP Addresses From Captured Network Traffic File

IpGeo is a python tool to extract IP addresses from captured network traffic file (pcap/pcapng) and generate csv report containing details about the geolocation of each ip in the packets.
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Feb
23
[thehackernews] Apple Warns of 3 New Vulnerabilities Affecting iPhone, iPad, and Mac Devices

[thehackernews] Apple Warns of 3 New Vulnerabilities Affecting iPhone, iPad, and Mac Devices

Apple Warns of 3 New Vulnerabilities Affecting iPhone, iPad, and Mac DevicesApple has announced three new vulnerabilities impacting iOS, iPadOS,
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Feb
20
[Cloudflare] mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack

[Cloudflare] mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack

Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attackThis was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected
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Feb
16
[infosecurity] UK Metal Engineering Firm Vesuvius Hit by Cyber-Attack

[infosecurity] UK Metal Engineering Firm Vesuvius Hit by Cyber-Attack

Vesuvius, a UK-based molten metal flow engineering company issued an alert on February 6, 2023, which stated it was “currently
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Feb
09
[YoreGroup] Decrypt your *.vmdk affected by CVE-2020-3992 / CryptoLocker attack

[YoreGroup] Decrypt your *.vmdk affected by CVE-2020-3992 / CryptoLocker attack

decrypt your crypted files in ESXi servers affected by CVE-2020-3992 / CryptoLocker attackUS CISA publishes ESXi ransomware recovery toolAs outbreak spreads.
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