Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors

The new 802.11bf standard will turn Wi-Fi devices into object sensors: In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is scheduled to get an upgrade that will turn wireless devices into sensors capable of gathering data about the people and objects bathed in their signals. "When 802.11bf will be...

LodaRAT Windows Malware Now Also Targets Android Devices

A previously known Windows remote access Trojan RAT with credential-stealing capabilities has now expanded its scope to set its sights on users of Android devices to further the attacker's espionage motives. "The developers of LodaRAT have added Android as a targeted platform," Cisco Talos...

LodaRAT Windows Malware Now Also Targets Android Devices

A previously known Windows remote access Trojan RAT with credential-stealing capabilities has now expanded its scope to set its sights on users of Android devices to further the attacker's espionage motives. "The developers of LodaRAT have added Android as a targeted platform," Cisco Talos...

Firefox 81 Release Kills High-Severity Code-Execution Bugs

Mozilla patched high-severity vulnerabilities with the release of Firefox 81 and Firefox ESR 78.3, including several that could be exploited to run arbitrary code. Two severe bugs CVE-2020-15674 and CVE-2020-15673 are errors in the browser’s memory-safety protections, which prevent memory access...

Companies Can Track Your Phone’s Movements to Target Ads

Brands are seeking new ways to customize messages. A startup that gathers data on when you pick up your phone, or when you go out on a run, can help...

Zenscrape: A Simple Web Scraping Solution for Penetration Testers

Did you ever try extracting any information from any website? Well, if you have then you have surely enacted web scraping functions without even knowing it! To put in simpler terms, Web scraping, or also known as web data extraction, is the process of recouping or sweeping data from web-pages. It...

Beware of 'Coronavirus Maps' – It's a malware infecting PCs to steal passwords

Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to exploit every chance to prey on internet users. Even the disastrous spread of SARS-COV-II the virus, which causes COVID-19 the disease, is becoming an opportunity for them to likewise spread malware or launch cyber attacks. Reason Labs recently released a...

ScoutSuite - Multi-Cloud Security Auditing Tool

Scout Suite is an open source multi-cloud security-auditing tool, which enables security posture assessment of cloud environments. Using the APIs exposed by cloud providers, Scout Suite gathers configuration data for manual inspection and highlights risk areas. Rather than going through dozens of...

8 Live Queries That Will Speed Up Your Next PCI Audit

It’s no secret that kicking off any kind of compliance audit can be a slow, tedious project. This is especially true when it comes to performing a pre-assessment gap analysis for PCI-DSS. Ask any qualified security assessor QSA, and they’ll tell you that the data gathering, scoping, and gap...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: HopLight Campaign (Linked to North Korea) is Reusing Substantial Amount of Code

On April 10, 2019 the US Department of Homeland Security DHS released a Malware Analysis Report MAR-10135536-8 which detailed the trojan HopLight. HopLight has been linked to different North Korean DPRK campaigns also known as the Lazarus Group. The CB Threat Analysis Unit TAU has continued to...

Researchers Link 'Sharpshooter' Cyber Attacks to North Korean Hackers

Security researchers have finally, with "high confidence," linked a previously discovered global cyber espionage campaign targeting critical infrastructure around the world to a North Korean APT hacking group. Thanks to the new evidence collected by researchers after analyzing a command-and-contr...

Open Positioner: my new project for tracking IT and security jobs

The idea of my new project is to retrieve the data from job-searching websites and provide better filtering, searching and visualization. I think for the most people who read this, searching for a job in Internet is a pretty common activity. Even if you are not going to change job right now, it...

At a New York Privacy Pop-Up, Facebook Sells Itself

The one-day pop-up kiosk is meant to show that Facebook takes users’ privacy concerns seriously. It also was an opportunity to gather more data...

SpiderFoot - The Most Complete OSINT Collection And Reconnaissance Tool

SpiderFoot is an open source intelligence OSINT automation tool. Its goal is to automate the process of gathering intelligence about a given target, which may be an IP address, domain name, hostname, network subnet, ASN or person's name. SpiderFoot can be used offensively, i.e. as part of a...

Digger - Tool Which Can Do A Lot Of Basic Tasks Related To Information Gathering

Digger is a multi-functional tool written in python for all of your primary data gathering wants. It makes use of APIs to assemble all the data so your id just isn’t uncovered. Features Whois Lookup Online Traceroute DNS Lookup Reverse DNS Lookup IP Location Lookup Port Scan HTTP Header Check How...

Fireball arrests made

Following some arrests in China, we may see a decrease in the amount of adware and adfraud hailing from the Rafotech labs. According to some reports 250 million machines may have been infected with one variant or another of Rafotechs’ products. We have shared some information about the potential...

More Firmware Backdoor Found In Cheap Android Phones

Here's some bad news for Android users again. Certain low-cost Android smartphones and tablets are shipped with malicious firmware, which covertly gathers data about the infected devices, displays advertisements on top of running applications and downloads unwanted APK files on the victim's...

Yahoo Ordered to Explain Data Gathering Procedures in Deleted Email Case

Yahoo has been given until August 31 to comply with a court order asking how the company was able to recover emails that were presumed deleted. Yahoo’s policy guide claims it cannot recover emails from a user’s account that have been deleted but defense lawyers for a convicted U.K. drug trafficke...

Mimikittenz - Post-Exploitation Powershell Tool for Extracting Juicy info from Memory

mimikittenz is a post-exploitation powershell tool that utilizes the Windows function ReadProcessMemory in order to extract plain-text passwords from various target processes. mimikittenz can also easily extract other kinds of juicy info from target processes using regex patterns including but no...

Tsusen - Network Traffic Sensor

Tsusen 津波センサー is a standalone network sensor made for gathering information from the regular traffic coming from the outside i.e. Internet on a daily basis e.g. mass-scans, service-scanners, etc.. Any disturbances should be closely watched for as those can become a good prediction base of...