This Week in Security News: 09/04/2020
This week, learn about Trend Micro’s midyear roundup report which found that published vulnerabilities in the first half of 2020...
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Patch Tuesday – September 2020
129 Vulnerabilities Patched in Microsoft's September 2020 Update Tuesday (2020-Sep Patch Tuesday)Despite maintaining the continued high volume of vulnerabilities disclosed...
DDoS attacks from the USA, UK, Ukraine were recorded during the voting in the Russian Federation
Andrey Krutskikh, special representative of the President of Russia for international cooperation in the field of information security, said on...
Iranian Threat Actors Have Modified Their Strategies, Attacks Now More Effective
Since the dawn of the digital age, Iranian hackers have been infamous for their attacks on critical infrastructures, targeting governments,...
Browsertunnel – Surreptitiously Exfiltrate Data From The Browser Over DNS
Browsertunnel is a tool for exfiltrating data from the browser using the DNS protocol. It achieves this by abusing dns-prefetch,...
Bpytop – Linux/OSX/FreeBSD Resource Monitor
Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.Python port of bashtop.FeaturesEasy to use, with...
A week in security (August 31 – September 6)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we dug into security hubris on the Lock and Code podcast, explored ways in which...
Chinese hackers targeted about five Russian developers of banking software
Chinese hacker group Winnti attacked at least five Russian developers of banking software, as well as a construction company. According...
Flying V: the futuristic and sustainable drone aircraft makes it’s first maiden flight
The Flying V took to air for the first time in July at a German Airbase with a successful flight...
A New Set of Cybersecurity Principles Issued By the White House
A new set of cybersecurity principles were recently issued by the White House to ensure its commercial and critical infrastructure...
New Wave of Cryptocurrency Misappropriation, Hacking, Theft and Fraud Targeting Users Massively in 2020
Crypto criminals have ramped up cryptocurrency theft, hacking, and fraud by a significant margin in the year 2020. They have...
Hackers broke into the system of the Georgian Ministry of Health to steal data on the Russian nerve agent Novichok
According to the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the purpose of infiltrating the Ministry of Health's database was to get...
PurpleCloud – An Infrastructure As Code (IaC) Deployment Of A Small Active Directory Pentest Lab In The Cloud
Pentest Cyber Range for a small Active Directory Domain. Automated templates for building your own Pentest/Red Team/Cyber Range in the...
OpenRedireX – Asynchronous Open redirect Fuzzer for Humans
A Fuzzer For OpenRedirect Issues.Key Features :Takes a url or list of urls and fuzzes them for Open redirect issuesYou...
Epic Manchego gang uses Excel docs that avoid detection
A recently discovered cybercrime gang, tracked as Epic Manchego, is using a new technique to create weaponized Excel files that...
Netwalker Ransomware hit Argentina’s official immigration agency
Argentina’s official immigration agency, Dirección Nacional de Migraciones, is the last victim of the Netwalker ransomware operators. Argentina’s official immigration...
Visa warns of new sophisticated credit card skimmer dubbed Baka
Visa issued a warning regarding a new credit card JavaScript skimmer, tracked as Baka, that implements new features to evade...
Security Affairs newsletter Round 280
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for...
WhatsApp discloses six previously undisclosed flaws
WhatsApp addressed six previously undisclosed flaws in its app and disclosed them on a new dedicated security advisory site. WhatsApp announced...
A full replacement of all Huawei and ZTE hardware on American wireless networks will cost $1.837bn
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) estimates the cost of a full replacement of all Huawei and ZTE hardware on...
SQLMap v1.4.9 – Automatic SQL Injection And Database Takeover Tool
SQLMap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and...
Autovpn – Create On Demand Disposable OpenVPN Endpoints On AWS
Script that allows the easy creation of OpenVPN endpoints in any AWS region. To create a VPN endpoint is done...
VPS-Docker-For-Pentest – Create A VPS On Google Cloud Platform Or Digital Ocean Easily With The Docker For Pentest
Create a VPS on Google Cloud Platform or Digital Ocean easily with the docker for pentest included to launch the...
Hardcodes – Find Hardcoded Strings From Source Code
hardcodes is a utility for searching strings hardcoded by developers in programs. It uses a modular tokenizer that can handle...
