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The source code of a remote access trojan dubbed 'CodeRAT' has been leaked on GitHub after malware analysts confronted the developer about attacks that used the tool. More specifically, CodeRAT supports about 50 commands and comes with extensive monitoring capabilities targeting webmail, Microsoft Office documents, databases, social network platforms, integrated development environment for Windows Android, and even individual websites like PayPal.

Google wants to improve the security of its open source projects and those projects' third-party dependencies by offering rewards for bugs found in them. Google offers rewards for bugs in its open source software.

Google on Monday introduced a new bug bounty program for its open source projects, offering payouts anywhere from $100 to $31,337 to secure the ecosystem from supply chain attacks. Called the Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program, the offering is one of the first open source-specific vulnerability programs.

A vulnerability assessment is a methodical examination of network infrastructure, computer systems, and software with the goal of identifying and addressing known security flaws. Usually, the vulnerability scanning tool also provides instructions on how to remediate or mitigate the discovered flaws.

Google has created a bug bounty program that will reward those who find and report vulnerabilities in its open-source projects, thereby hopefully strengthening software supply-chain security. The Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program will pay bug hunters between $100 and $31,337, with the highest payments going to "Unusual or particularly interesting vulnerabilities," according to Googlers Francis Perron, open source security technical program manager, and infosec engineer Krzysztof Kotowicz.

Google will now pay security researchers to find and report bugs in the latest versions of Google-released open-source software.The company's newly announced Vulnerability Reward Program focuses on Google software and repository settings.

This type of analysis may reveal to malware analysts not only what the malware does, but also its developer's future intentions. All the malware analysis tools listed below can be freely downloaded and used.

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic primitive that enables performing computations over encrypted data without having access to the secret key. In this Help Net Security video,...

In this Help Net Security video, Christophe Tafani-Dereeper, Cloud Security Researcher and Advocate at DataDog, talks about Stratus Red Team, an open-source project for adversary emulation and validation of threat detection in the cloud. The tool supports common AWS and Kubernetes attack techniques.

In this Help Net Security video, Ofri Ouzan, Security Researcher at Rezilion, talks about MI-X, an open source tool aimed at effectively determining whether a local host or a running container image is truly vulnerable to a specific vulnerability by accounting for all factors which affect actual exploitability. The tool prints the logical steps it takes in order to reach a decision and can generate a flow chart depicting the complete logical flow.