How to Avoid the Coming Trap: Digital IDs, Social Credit Scores, and Government-Controlled Crypto
Conspiracy? Blockchain and cryptocurrency were originally designed to free individuals from centralized financial control, but…
I Got In Without A Badge Easy!? Social Engineering Strategies.
People assume social engineering is all charm and quick thinking. But real operators know the truth:Preparation is the payload.Execution is just the final click. This is how I walked into a secured corporate building twice without a badge, without clearance, and without triggering a single alert. Every step was calculated. Every detail was scripted. If…
The Game Is Life… But What If That’s Not Just Fiction?
I recently read a book that didn’t just entertain me, it challenged everything I thought I understood about reality. It’s called The Game is Life by Terry Schott. The premise is simple… and wild: humans live in a highly advanced society where children enter a full-immersion simulation called “The Game.” Inside this Game, they experience…
The AI Edge: Outthinking the Chaos
The privacy and security landscape has fundamentally changed. It’s not just about firewalls and VPNs anymore, it’s about where you live, how you power your life, and how resilient your systems are when the grid, the internet, or the institutions behind them fail. The concept of “digital defensibility” goes beyond cybersecurity; it’s about self-sufficiency in…
How to Avoid the Coming Trap: Digital IDs, Social Credit Scores, and Government-Controlled Crypto
Conspiracy? Blockchain and cryptocurrency were originally designed to free individuals from centralized financial control, but as governments shift toward embracing crypto, a hidden agenda is emerging. With digital IDs, social credit scores, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) on the horizon, financial independence could be at risk. Governments won’t ban crypto outright, they will co-opt…
THIS WEEK IN SECURITY: LOOP DOS, FLIPPER RESPONDS, AND MORE!
by: Jonathan Bennett Here’s a fun thought experiment. UDP packets can be sent with an arbitrary source IP and port, so you can send a packet to one server, and could aim the response at another server. What happens if that response triggers another response? What if you could craft a packet that continues that cycle…
SHODAN Dorks
READ ARTICLE By: ZION3R Shodan Dorks Basic Shodan Filters city: Find devices in a particular city. city:”Bangalore” country: Find devices in a particular country. country:”IN” geo: Find devices by giving geographical coordinates. geo:”56.913055,118.250862″ Location country:us country:ru country:de city:chicago hostname: Find devices matching the hostname. server: “gws” hostname:”google” hostname:example.com -hostname:subdomain.example.com hostname:example.com,example.org net: Find devices based on an IP address or /x CIDR. net:210.214.0.0/16 Organization…
How to communicate a cyber breach to minimize reputational damage
READ ARTICLE Sarah Woodhouse, Director of AMBITIOUS, explains how businesses must communicate a cyber breach in order to remain trustworthy and minimise damage. A cyber breach occurs roughly once every 39 seconds. With businesses as targets for their data, it’s not a case of if but when an attack will happen, and brands have historically struggled with…
New Go loader pushes Rhadamanthys stealer
READ ARTICLE Posted: March 22, 2024 by Jérôme Segura Malware loaders (also known as droppers or downloaders) are a popular commodity in the criminal underground. Their primary function is to successfully compromise a machine and deploy one or multiple additional payloads. A good loader avoids detection and identifies victims as legitimate (i.e. not sandboxes) before pushing other…
The Updated APT Playbook: Tales from the Kimsuky threat actor group
READ ARTICLE Last updated at Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:20:04 GMT Co-authors are Christiaan Beek and Raj Samani Within Rapid7 Labs we continually track and monitor threat groups. This is one of our key areas of focus as we work to ensure that our ability to protect customers remains constant. As part of this process, we routinely…
Curious Serpens’ FalseFont Backdoor: Technical Analysis, Detection and Prevention
By Tom Fakterman, Daniel Frank and Jerome Tujague READ ARTICLE Executive Summary This article reviews the recently discovered FalseFont backdoor, which was used by a suspected Iranian-affiliated threat actor that Unit 42 tracks as Curious Serpens. Curious Serpens (aka Peach Sandstorm) is a known espionage group that has previously targeted the aerospace and energy sectors. FalseFont is the latest…
