SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The malware was developed in C++ and compiled using the MinGW-w64 toolkit and the GCC compiler. This is not the most common approach among C/C++ malware developers for Windows - the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment is more often used for such purposes. It then generates this ransom note, which asks for payment of 0.5

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

The public preview for Android will include protection against phishing and go a step further than Google’s built-in malware protection to offer signature-based malware detection. Microsoft is also planning an iOS antivirus app, although it’s clear the company will be far more limited with what it provides on Apple’s operating systems.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the investigation, it was uncovered that LightBasin put energy towards Linux and Solaris systems, avoiding the more robust monitoring systems by Windows. ". LightBasin also uses a long list of malware and other techniques to carry out their devious deeds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 25, 2022

After all, you wouldn’t want your haptic glove to misbehave in the metaverse or your autonomous vehicle sensors to be hijacked by malware. Operating Systems for the edge. Separating system and application spaces is already gaining followers for immutable Linux operating systems – even in consumer devices.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Networking. So useful.).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. A “highly evasive” Linux malware named OrBit has emerged; see here for more details. Operating Systems/Applications. Hopefully I’ve managed to find something useful for someone. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Cross-platform malware. Operating Systems/Applications. Dennis Felsing shares some thoughts on switching to macOS after 15 years on Linux. Running Docker on an M1 Max-based system? BIOS updates without a reboot , and under Linux first? ” and “faker.js” Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. This article on using osquery for behavioral detection of macOS malware was an interesting read. Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 19, 2020

This article explains how to use a “stacked filesystem” encryption solution named eCryptfs to encrypt directories on Linux. If you say that Linux malware doesn’t exist…read this article. Operating Systems/Applications. Want to run Linux on your Surface Pro 4? You’re in luck.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Vaughan-Nichols writes about the first malware discovered running on AWS Lambda. Operating Systems/Applications. This will become even more useful, in my opinion, when Linux support is added. now has a follow-up exploit that exposes Aruba and Avaya network switches to remote code execution. Programming.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. They offer malware alerts, practical online security tips, and more.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. Operating System & Software Blogs. Malwarebytes.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. Operating System & Software Blogs. Malwarebytes.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. They offer malware alerts, practical online security tips, and more.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. Operating System & Software Blogs. Malwarebytes.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Alex Birsan, a Romanian threat researcher, recently made over $130,000 by virtuously breaking into IT systems at dozens of major tech companies. Read more.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. There are other pentesting operating systems like Parrot.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. There are other pentesting operating systems like Parrot.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

I’m reminded of when I trained to use Kali Linux. They're the long game operations where something as small as a single phishing email could escalate into millions of IDs being exfiltrated. Living off the land or fireless malware is a threat actor leveraging the utilities readily available on a system.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

They contain an operating system and they have confirmation for RAM and other hardware you may want to simulate. This is how malware, for example, is analyzed; if the virtual machine gets infected and crashes, the physical machine isn’t impacted. In fact, you can just spin up another VM.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

People see what happens after a system has been hacked and someone who's installed malware. The way you exploit windows is different than the way you exploit Linux, which is different than the way you exploit an embedded operating system. It's worth everyone understanding its role. Dennis Fischer: I think so too.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

People see what happens after a system has been hacked and someone who's installed malware. The way you exploit windows is different than the way you exploit Linux, which is different than the way you exploit an embedded operating system. It's worth everyone understanding its role. Dennis Fischer: I think so too.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

People see what happens after a system has been hacked and someone who's installed malware. The way you exploit windows is different than the way you exploit Linux, which is different than the way you exploit an embedded operating system. It's worth everyone understanding its role. Dennis Fischer: I think so too.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. So while the operators are trying to recover, they're also dealing with the fact that all their systems are going down.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Living off the Land (LoL) is an attack where files already on your machine, ie your operating system, are used against you. So I started thinking about other ways to hide messages or even how to get malware onto a system without it being detected. Like all the unused files within your operating system?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At the time of this podcast, Lockbit accounts for 40% of the ransomware present today and it hits both Windows and Linux machines. Vamosi: Ransomware is the latest trend in malware. It’s a clever way for malware to be monetized. That’s what a criminal malware enterprise looks like today. --[Music] --.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

You know something that helps write into the operating system like Windows or Mac or Linux, the accuracy there is might be pretty good. Such as training systems to automatically detect malware. The accuracy of these predictions depends largely on the accuracy of the capture, which is what Justin is talking about.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

Duff: And so, out emerged this Excel spreadsheet of different behaviors that the red team was performing, which would allow us to focus rather on hashes, or specific malware, it allows us to focus on the higher level behaviors to improve our defenses. Duff: It's not supposed to be realistic. It's supposed to be.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

Duff: And so, out emerged this Excel spreadsheet of different behaviors that the red team was performing, which would allow us to focus rather on hashes, or specific malware, it allows us to focus on the higher level behaviors to improve our defenses. Duff: It's not supposed to be realistic. It's supposed to be.

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