More than 2,000 WordPress sites have been infected with malicious JavaScript that redirects visitors to scam websites and sets the stage for additional malware to be downloaded at a later time. The Sucuri team said access is gained to WordPress sites through plugin vulnerabilities, including Simple Fields and CP Contact […]
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In the early days, practically all tech support scammers would get their own leads by doing some amateur SEO poisoning and keyword stuffing on YouTube and other social media sites. They’d then leverage their boiler room to answer incoming calls from victims. Today, these practices continue, but we are seeing […]
Researchers simulated a real-looking “Industrial prototyping” organization with fake employees, PLCs, and websites to study the types of cyber-attacks that commonly on such networks. The elaborately fake organization’s website and the network worked on a highly advanced interactive “honeypot” network that worked extensively on attracting the attention of potential hackers. […]
SAFE is a tool developed to create Binary Functions Embedding developed by Massarelli L., Di Luna G.A., Petroni F., Querzoni L. and Baldoni R. You can use SAFE to create your function embedding to use inside yara rules.If you are interested take a look at our research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05296If you […]
AlertResponder is a serverless framework for automatic response of security alert. OverviewAlertResponder receives an alert that is event of interest from security view point and responses the alert automatically. AlertResponder has 3 parts of automatic response. Inspector investigates entities that are appeaered in the alert including IP address, Domain name […]
If you’re operating in the cloud, you may be familiar with the shared responsibility model. We often hear people say they think they’re inherently secure because they use the cloud and their cloud provider takes care of all security needs, but that’s not exactly true. While your cloud provider is […]
The antivirus company ESET studied the state of information security in the Russian business sector, interviewing dozens of IT Directors and business owners. According to ESET research, different types of cyber threats affected 90% of Russian businesses. 60% of Russian IT managers are seriously concerned about the safety of personal […]
A tiny framework for easily manipulate the tty and create fake binaries. How it works?The framework has three main functions, tas_execv, tas_forkpty, and tas_tty_loop. tas_execv: It is a function similar to execv, but it doesn’t re-execute the current binary, something very useful for creating fake binaries. tas_forkpty: Is the same […]
Corsy is a lightweight program that scans for all known misconfigurations in CORS implementations. RequirementsCorsy only works with Python 3 and has the following depencies: tld requests To install these dependencies, navigate to Corsy directory and execute pip3 install -r requirements.txt UsageUsing Corsy is pretty simplepython3 corsy.py -u https://example.com Scan […]
If you feel anxious about the amount of time it takes your organization to remediate vulnerabilities or find yourself spending significant time trying to influence your peers who perform the remediations, you’re not alone. These worries are extremely common among security professionals. Fortunately, effective remediation is possible with the right […]
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we taught you how to prevent a rootkit attack, explained what data enrichment means, informed you about new rules on deepfakes in the US, and demonstrated how backdoors in elastic servers expose private data. Other cybersecurity news An online group of cybersecurity analysts calling themselves […]
Bengaluru: The Railway Protection Force busted a multi crore ticket booking fraud and apprehended two miscreants who hacked the railway booking website and used the ANMS Tatkal software to book tickets. The ticketing racket seems to have been working all around the nation and the police as well as RPF […]
Whether Android or iPhone there is no denying that Google is there for all of us, keeping a track log of our data in a “Timeline” that unequivocally shows wherever we’ve been, which while in some cases is amazingly valuable and helpful yet for the rest it’s downright creepy. The […]
This week, a hacker published a list on a popular hacking forum containing Telnet credentials for over 515,000 servers, home routers and IoT (Internet of Things) “smart” devices. The massive list which reportedly was concluded by browsing the whole internet in search of devices that left their Telnet port exposed, […]
Are you fond of buying stolen’/leaked data? Because, one such domain, named ‘WeLeakInfo.com’ recently got seized by the US authorities. WeLeakInfo, with its absolutely convenient name, had been selling stolen data from other hacked websites, online for the past three years. The website provided an online service where hacked data […]