360lock Smart Lock Review

Two years ago I helped kick start a smart lock, the 360lock. It finally arrived this week. It has different modules like a keybox below and a bike chain. I originally live tweeted the hack on Tuesday Sep 8, 2020. So, how good is it? Blockchain integration! According to the website the 360lock has...

Pioneer Kitten APT Sells Corporate Network Access

An APT group known as Pioneer Kitten, linked to Iran, has been spotted selling corporate-network credentials on hacker forums. The credentials would let other cybercriminal groups and APTs perform cyberespionage and other nefarious cyber-activity. Pioneer Kitten is a hacker group that specializes...

New Book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 2

I published a new book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 2: Network Security Monitoring, Technical Notes, Research, and China and the Advanced Persistent Threat It's in the Kindle Store, and if you're Unlimited it's free. Print edition to follow. The book lists as having 413 pages for the...

DoJ Aims to Seize 280 Cryptocurrency Accounts Used by Hackers

The U.S. government aims to seize control of 280 illegal cryptocurrency accounts it claims were used by North Korean state-sponsored attackers in their efforts to hack cryptocurrency exchanges and funnel hundreds of millions in stolen funds through a Chinese money-laundering network. The U.S...

Ex-Cisco Employee Pleads Guilty to Deleting 16K Webex Teams Accounts

A former Cisco Systems employee pleaded guilty this week to hacking into the networking company’s cloud infrastructure and deleting 16,000 Webex Teams accounts in 2018. Webex Teams is Cisco’s collaboration application for enterprises. In a plea agreement in a San Jose federal court, Sudhish Kasab...

Get Lifetime Access to 1000+ Premium Online Training Courses for Just $59

"In today's knowledge economy, continual learning is an imperative." — Those words from Aytekin Tank, the founder of JotForm, are particularly important for anyone working in IT or development. With over 1,000 premium courses complete list from top instructors, StackSkills Unlimited provides...

Get Lifetime Access to 1000+ Premium Online Training Courses for Just $59

"In today's knowledge economy, continual learning is an imperative." — Those words from Aytekin Tank, the founder of JotForm, are particularly important for anyone working in IT or development. With over 1,000 premium courses complete list from top instructors, StackSkills Unlimited provides...

A week in security (August 17 – 23)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare cybersecurity, dug into some pandemic stats in terms of how workforces coped with going remote, and served up a crash course on malware detection. Our most recent Lock and Code podcast explored the safety of parenta...

SecGen - Create Randomly Insecure VMs

SecGen creates vulnerable virtual machines, lab environments, and hacking challenges, so students can learn security penetration testing techniques. Boxes like Metasploitable2 are always the same, this project uses Vagrant, Puppet, and Ruby to create randomly vulnerable virtual machines that can ...

The NSA and FBI Expose Fancy Bear's Sneaky Hacking Tool

Plus: TikTok tracking, Russian SIMs, and more of this week's top security news...

FBI and NSA expose Russian State hacking tool for Linux systems

By Sudais Asif Dubbed Drovorub by the agencies; the malware hacking tool is capable of spying on Linux systems. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI and NSA expose Russian State hacking tool for Linux systems...

UAE Hack and Leak Operations

Interesting paper on recent hack-and-leak operations attributed to the UAE: Abstract: Four hack-and-leak operations in U.S. politics between 2016 and 2019, publicly attributed to the United Arab Emirates UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, should be seen as the "simulation of scandal" ­-- deliberate...

Amazon Alexa Bugs Could've Let Hackers Install Malicious Skills Remotely

Attention! If you use Amazon's voice assistant Alexa in you smart speakers, just opening an innocent-looking web-link could let attackers install hacking skills on it and spy on your activities remotely. Check Point cybersecurity researchers—Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Yaara Shriki—today...

Researchers demonstrate hacking traffic lights to manipulate outcome

By Sudais Asif The researchers have shared their findings at DefCon. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researchers demonstrate hacking traffic lights to manipulate outcome...

Exploit for CVE-2015-0273

phpcodz Php Codz Hacking http://www.80vul.com/pch/ What is PHP? PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try the introductory tutorial. Afte...

An ’80s File Format Enabled Stealthy Mac Hacking

The now-patched vulnerability would have let hackers target Microsoft Office using Symbolic Link—a file type that hasn't been in common use in over 30 years...

uDork - Tool That Uses Advanced Google Search Techniques To Obtain Sensitive Information In Files Or Directories, Find IoT Devices, Detect Versions Of Web Applications, And So On

uDork is a script written in Bash Scripting that uses advanced Google search techniques to obtain sensitive information in files or directories, find IoT devices, detect versions of web applications, and so on. uDork does NOT make attacks against any server, it only uses predefined dorks and/or...

Fake Stories in Real News Sites

Fireeye is reporting that a hacking group called Ghostwriter broke into the content management systems of Eastern European news sites to plant fake stories. From a Wired story: The propagandists have created and disseminated disinformation since at least March 2017, with a focus on undermining NA...

Onex - A Library Of Hacking Tools For Termux And Other Linux Distributions

"onex a hacking tools library." Onex is a kali linux hacking tools installer for termux and other linux distribution. It's package manager for hacker's. onex manage large number's of hacking tools that can be installed on single click.Using onex, you can install all hacking tools in Termux and...

US Charges 2 Chinese Hackers for Targeting COVID-19 Research and Trade Secrets

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ yesterday revealed charges against two Chinese nationals for their alleged involvement in a decade-long hacking spree targeting dissidents, government agencies, and hundreds of organizations in as many as 11 countries. The 11-count indictment, which was unsealed...