Who’s Behind the Botnet-Based Service BHProxies?

A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies, which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. Heres a closer look at Mylobot, an...

Massive AdSense Fraud Campaign Uncovered - 10,000+ WordPress Sites Infected

The threat actors behind the black hat redirect malware campaign have scaled up their campaign to use more than 70 bogus domains mimicking URL shorteners and infect over 10,800 websites. "The main objective is still ad fraud by artificially increasing traffic to pages which contain the AdSense ID...

Suborner - The Invisible Account Forger

What's this? A simple program to create a Windows account you will only know about : Create invisible local accounts without net user or Windows OS user management applications e.g. netapi32::netuseradd Works on all Windows NT Machines Windows XP to 11, Windows Server 2003 to 2022 Impersonate...

Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called "Zeppelin" in May 2020. Hed been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the companys data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. After t...

Over 15,000 WordPress Sites Compromised in Malicious SEO Campaign

A new malicious campaign has compromised over 15,000 WordPress websites in an attempt to redirect visitors to bogus Q&A portals. "These malicious redirects appear to be designed to increase the authority of the attacker's sites for search engines," Sucuri researcher Ben Martin said in a report...

Why we all Need a Password Manager

What is a password manager? A password manager helps users create unique and complex passwords and store them in an encrypted fashion, meaning each website, application, or program that needs login information can use a more secure string of characters, letters, and symbols. Users don’t have to...

Microsoft Security highlights from Black Hat USA 2022

Black Hat USA 2022 marked the twenty-fifth year that security researchers, security architects, and other security professionals have gathered to share the latest research, developments, and trends. Microsoft was among the companies participating in the conference, which was from August 6 to 11,...

Microsoft Security highlights from Black Hat USA 2022

Black Hat USA 2022 marked the twenty-fifth year that security researchers, security architects, and other security professionals have gathered to share the latest research, developments, and trends. Microsoft was among the companies participating in the conference, which was from August 6 to 11,...

Pushing Open-Source Security Forward: Insights From Black Hat 2022

Open-source security has been a hot topic in recent years, and it's proven to be something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there's an understanding of the potential that open-source tools hold for democratizing security, making industry best practices accessible to more organizations an...

Black Hat USA 2022 and DEF CON 30

Black Hat 2022 USA Briefings wrapped up this past week, along with its sister conference DEF CON 30. The DEF CON theme was a "Hacker Homecoming", and it really was a fun one. Coming back from the COVID hiatus, the conferences were enthusiastically full compared to the 2021 ghost town. Many of the...

[VIDEO] An Inside Look at Black Hat 2022 From the Rapid7 Team

!\VIDEO\ An Inside Look at Black Hat 2022 From the Rapid7 Teamhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/black-hat-vlog.jpg Of all the cybersecurity conferences that fill up our summertime schedules, Hacker Summer Camp — the weeklong series of security events in Las Vegas that includes BSides...

Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON – also known collectively as Hacker Summer Camp. The weeklong collection of cybersecurity conferences featured an eclectic mix of attendees to learn, network, hack and have fun. The week even included a rare Las Vegas fla...

The Race to Secure eBPF for Windows

The Race to Secure eBPF for Windows By Trellix · August 11, 2022 This blog was written by Douglas McKee Innovation often improves functionality and even security; however, adoption starts slow. Adoption often doesn’t increase at a linear rate but at an exponential rate leaving behind attack...

The Race to Secure eBPF for Windows

The Race to Secure eBPF for Windows By Trellix · August 11, 2022 This blog was written by Douglas McKee Innovation often improves functionality and even security; however, adoption starts slow. Adoption often doesn’t increase at a linear rate but at an exponential rate leaving behind attack...

Wallarm at Black Hat USA 2022

Black Hat USA is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and Wallarm will be on hand for the festivities. If you’re headed to Vegas this year, we invite you to meet our crew and talk about API security. Tuesday 08/09 – Pre-Event Evening Party Join us on Tuesday 08/09 evening at the Emerging Technology...

Akamai Has Addressed Browser-Powered Desync Attacks

On August 10, 2022, security researcher James Kettle presented a set of novel HTTP request smuggling attacks in his Black Hat talk,...

Join Wiz at Black Hat 2022

Wiz is excited to be back in Las Vegas for Black Hat 2022 as a sponsor of this year's conference. At Black Hat, you'll have the opportunity to learn from our research and product experts, experience live demos in our booth, and mingle with us after the conference...

Wordfence Intelligence Launching at Black Hat 2022 in Las Vegas Next Week

Wordfence protects over 4 million websites around the world on 12,000 unique networks, and we block over 1.8 billion attacks targeting those websites every month. For years we have had a relationship with our customers that is a virtuous cycle: We receive attack reports from our customers at a ra...

What We're Looking Forward to at Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSidesLV 2022

The week of Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSides is highly anticipated annual tradition for the cybersecurity community, a weeklong chance for security pros from all corners of the industry to meet in Las Vegas to talk shop and share what they've spent the last 12 months working on. But like many belov...

[Security Nation] Curt Barnard on Defaultinator (Black Hat Arsenal Preview)

!\Security Nation\ Curt Barnard on Defaultinator \Black Hat Arsenal Preview\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Curt Barnard, Principal Security Researcher at Rapid7, about a new tool he’ll be presenting a...