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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
READ ARTICLE A China-linked threat cluster leveraged security flaws in Connectwise ScreenConnect and F5 BIG-IP software to deliver custom malware capable of delivering additional backdoors on compromised Linux hosts as part of an “aggressive” campaign. Google-owned Mandiant is tracking the activity under its uncategorized moniker UNC5174 (aka Uteus or Uetus), describing it as a “former member of Chinese hacktivist…
By Jonathan Munshaw READ ARTICLE Whether you want to call them “catfishing,” “pig butchering” or just good ‘old-fashioned “social engineering,” romance scams have been around forever. I was first introduced to them through the MTV show “Catfish,” but recently they seem to be making headlines as the term “pig butchering” enters the public lexicon. John…
