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A large-scale campaign is targeting developers on GitHub with fake Visual Studio Code (VS Code) security alerts posted in the Discussions section of various projects, to trick users into downloading m

Chinese APT Red Menshen’s super-advanced BPFdoor malware defeats traditional cybersecurity protections. All telcos can do, really, is try hunting it down.

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For the past week, the massive „Internet of Things“ (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and secure online communications. I2P users started reporting disruptions in the network around the same time the Kimwolf botmasters began relying on it to evade takedown attempts against the botnet’s control servers.

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six „zero-day“ vulnerabilities that attackers are already exploiting in the wild.

A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim firms: Harassing, threatening and even swatting executives and their families, all while notifying journalists and regulators… Read More »

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https://cvedb.shodan.io

The CVEDB website lets you explore known vulnerabilities and provides a free API to quickly get vulnerability

There are many ways to track command & control servers from bad guys but they often rely on looking for indicators in the service metadata (ex. certificate information). Around a decade ago we developed a novel technique to proactively find the infrastructure: Malware Hunter. Malware Hunter finds command & control

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