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In December 2022, security company Mandiant, now a Google Cloud company, identified a FortiOS malware written in C that exploited the CVE-2022-42475 FortiOS vulnerability. The Linux version of the malware, when executed, performs a system survey and enables communications with a hardcoded command-and-control server.
The legitimate command-and-control framework known as Sliver is gaining more traction from threat actors as it emerges as an open source alternative to Cobalt Strike and Metasploit. Sliver, developed by cybersecurity company BishopFox, is a Golang-based cross-platform post-exploitation framework that's designed to be used by security professionals in their red team operations.
In this Help Net Security video, André Ferraz, CEO at Incognia, discusses the impact of location spoofing and location-based fraud. Any tool that enables users to alter the location information given by their device is known as location spoofing.
If the user navigates and clicks on the only visible file, a Link File Format file, the LNK file starts the infection process by launching a batch file. Attackers obtain the credentials of a service account via Kerberoasting, a known technique based on abusing valid Kerberos tickets, 15 minutes after the initial infection.
ChatGPT from OpenAI is a conversational chatbot recently released in preview mode for research purposes. It takes natural language as input and aims to solve problems, provide follow-up questions or even challenge assertions depending on your question.
In this Help Net Security video, MacKenzie Jackson, Developer Advocate at GitGuardian, offers his cybersecurity predictions for 2032. These include: Developers will be a priority target for...
The growing interest in quantum is translating into spending, demonstrated by 71% of quantum-adopting enterprises surveyed having current quantum computing budgets of more than $1 million. Interestingly, nearly 30% of respondents that have adopted or plan to adopt quantum computing expect to see a competitive advantage due to quantum computing within the next 12 months.
This paper is a good survey of the field: what the threats are, how we might detect machine-generated text, directions for future research. Abstract: Advances in natural language generation have resulted in machine generated text that is increasingly difficult to distinguish from human authored text.
So Don was rather surprised one day to hear a phone ringing as he stalked the racks, because the kit there was dedicated to modems. "The caller only said 'BOMB. BOMB. BOMB.' with a strong Irish accent," don recalled.
A new analysis of Raspberry Robin's attack infrastructure has revealed that it's possible for other threat actors to repurpose the infections for their own malicious activities, making it an even more potent threat. Raspberry Robin, attributed to a threat actor dubbed DEV-0856, is malware that has increasingly come under the radar for being used in attacks aimed at finance, government, insurance, and telecom entities.