North Korea-Backed Spy Group Poses as Reporters in Spearphishing Attacks, Feds Warn

The North Korean advanced persistent threat APT group known as Kimsuky is actively attacking commercial-sector businesses, often by posing as South Korean reporters, according to an alert from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA. Kimsuky a.k.a. Hidden Cobra has been...

Going dark: encryption and law enforcement

UPDATE, 05/22/2020: In the advent of the EARN IT Act, the debate on government subversion of encryption has reignited. Given that the material conditions of the technology have not changed, and the arguments given in favor of the bill are not novel, we've decided to republish the following blog...

WolfRAT Android Malware Targets WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger

UPDATE A new Android malware family has been discovered, which targets popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to gather intelligence on Android victims. The malware, dubbed WolfRAT, is under active development, and was recently identified in campaigns targeting Thai users...

PAKURI - Penetration Test Achieve Knowledge Unite Rapid Interface

What's PAKURI In Japanese, imitating is called “Pakuru”. ぱくる godan conjugation, hiragana and katakana パクる, rōmaji pakuru 1. eat with a wide open mouth 2. steal when one isn't looking, snatch, swipe 3. copy someone's idea or design 4. nab, be caught by the police Wiktionary:ぱくる Description...

Windows NTFS Privileged File Access Enumeration Vulnerability

NTFS is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft. Windows NTFS suffers from a privileged file access enumeration vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker with user rights to gather intelligence or personal data...

Nation-State Actors Go All-In on Mobile Malware

APTs, including a range of nation-state groups operating in China, North Korea, Pakistan and Russia, are shifting their malware development focus to target mobile users for intelligence gathering, financial gain and disruption of national rivals. That’s according to CrowdStrike’s Mobile Threat...

Shipping operators, what you need to know about phishing and CEO fraud

Maybe second only to ransomware, the most likely type of attack a shipping operator will experience will be a phishing scam. Usually this will be carried out by email, or social media, or even messaging apps. It will likely include a link to what seems a plausible website, and/or have an...

The Offensive Web Application Penetration Testing Framework: TIDoS

TIDoS Framework is a comprehensive web-app audit framework. TIDoS is made to be comprehensive and versatile. It is a highly flexible framework where you just have to select and use modules. But before that, you need to set your own API KEYS for various OSINT purposes. To do so, open up APIKEYS.py...

Free Facial Recognition Tool Can Track People Across Social Media Sites

Security researchers at Trustwave have released a new open-source tool that uses facial recognition technology to locate targets across numerous social media networks on a large scale. Dubbed Social Mapper, the facial recognition tool automatically searches for targets across eight social media...

Automatic Machine Learning Penetration Test Tool: Deep Exploit

DeepExploit is fully automated penetration tool linked with Metasploit. It identifies the status of all opened ports on the target server and executes the exploit at pinpoint using Machine Learning. DeepExploit consists of the machine learning model A3C and Metasploit . The A3C executes exploit t...

FBI seizes control of a massive botnet that infected over 500,000 routers

Shortly after Cisco's released its early report on a large-scale hacking campaign that infected over half a million routers and network storage devices worldwide, the United States government announced the takedown of a key internet domain used for the attack. Yesterday we reported about a piece ...

A Five-Year Journey: How Trend Micro Helped Bring Down Scan4You

Trend Micro has always had a close relationship with law enforcement around the globe, because we believe that only together can we make the world a safer place in which to exchange digital information. As the business of cybercrime continues to grow and evolve, so must our response. That’s why w...

Phishing Spy Campaign Targets Top Mideast Officials

Researchers have discovered a phishing campaign that infected Android devices with custom surveillance-ware bent on extracting data from top officials, primarily in the Middle East. Researchers at Lookout Security told Threatpost that the tool, dubbed Stealth Mango, has been used to collect over ...

Automating Penetration Testing Tasks: ODIN

ODIN Observe, Detect, and Investigate Networks is a Python tool for automating intelligence gathering, testing and reporting. ODIN is still in active development. ODIN is designed to be run on Linux. About 90% of it will absolutely work on Windows or MacOS with Python 3 and a copy of urlcrazy, bu...

SpiderFoot 2.12 - Automates OSINT to find out everything possible about your target

SpiderFoot is a reconnaissance tool that automatically queries over 100 public data sources OSINT to gather intelligence on IP addresses, domain names, e-mail addresses, names and more. You simply specify the target you want to investigate, pick which modules to enable and then SpiderFoot will...

GOSINT - Open Source Threat Intelligence Gathering and Processing Framework

The GOSINT framework is a project used for collecting, processing, and exporting high quality indicators of compromise IOCs. GOSINT allows a security analyst to collect and standardize structured and unstructured threat intelligence. Applying threat intelligence to security operations enriches...

White House Releases VEP Disclosure Rules

The U.S. government took steps toward offering more transparency into the Vulnerabilities Equities Process. On Wednesday it released of the “Vulnerabilities Equities Policy and Process” PDF charter that outlines how the government will disclose cyber security flaws and when it will keep them...

Pentest-Tools-Auto-Installer - A Simple Tool For Installing Pentest Tools And Forensic Tools On Debian / Ubuntu Based OS

A Simple tool for installing pentest tools and forensic tools on Debian / Ubuntu Based OS Tested on Linux Mint And Kali Linux I Want To Get This How To Do ?? Change Your Privileges Terminal to Root Mode your@terminal:$ sudo su And Then Clone This your@terminal: git clone...

Easy Intelligence Gathering: theHarvester

The objective of this program is to gather emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers and SHODAN computer database. This tool is intended to help Penetration testers in the early stages of the penetration te...

PATCH Act Calls for VEP Review Board

The U.S. government took the first steps toward codifying the Vulnerabilities Equities Process into law yesterday through the introduction of the Protecting Our Ability to Counter Hacking PATCH Act of 2017. The VEP is the internal process by which the government decides which software...