FIN7 Backdoor Masquerades as Ethical Hacking Tool

The notorious FIN7 cybercrime gang, a financially motivated group, is spreading a backdoor called Lizar under the guise of being a Windows pen-testing tool for ethical hackers. According to the BI.ZONE Cyber Threats Research Team, FIN7 is pretending to be a legitimate organization that hawks a...

200K Veterans’ Med Records May Have Been Stolen by Ransomware Gang

UPDATE A database filled with the medical records of nearly 200,000 U.S. military veterans was exposed online by a vendor working for the Veterans Administration, according to an analyst, who also presented evidence the data might have been exfiltrated by ransomware attackers. The VA for it’s par...

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Were growing and we need to fill these 5 UK based roles: PHP Full-Stack Developer Pen Testing Consultant Red Team Support Digital Forensic Analyst IT Support Technician You can find all the details here. We think were a good bunch and there are some really good perks. If you have the skills and...

Closing the technical gap with resiliency pen testing

Organizations across all industries are watching and weighing the real impact and cost of security breaches as they look to budget security spending for 2021. While remote operations are becoming the norm, threat actors have no intention of slowing down their efforts. Instead, they are taking ful...

Behind the Scenes: Under the Hoodie 2020 Video Series

Longtime fans of our Under the Hoodie video series may have noticed that this year’s videos looked, well, a little different. Because we were all working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we realized that it was no longer feasible to sit down in person and interview our pen testing services...

Autoenum - Automatic Service Enumeration Script

Autoenum is a recon tool which performs automatic enumeration of services discovered. I built this to save some time during CTFs and pen testing environments i.e. HTB, VulnHub, OSCP and draws a bit from a number of existing tools including AutoRecon https://github.com/Tib3rius/AutoRecon, Auto-Rec...

Lazymux - A Huge List Of Many Hacking Tools And PEN-TESTING Tools

Lazymux tools installer is very easy to use, only provided for lazy termux users; it's huge list of Many Hacking tools and PEN TESTING! NOTE: Am not Responsible of bad use of this project. Requirements • Linux environment • Python 2.x • git Installation and Using Lazymux git clone...

WordListGen - Super Simple Python Word List Generator For Fuzzing And Brute Forcing In Python

Super Simple Python Word List Generator for Password Cracking Hashcat! I know what your are thinking. Why create another word list generator? Well, I needed something very simple I could modify on the fly to get the exact character generators for the task at hand. This script is fully functional ...

Evaluating Your Security Controls? Be Sure to Ask the Right Questions

Testing security controls is the only way to know if they are truly defending your organization. With many different testing frameworks and tools to choose from, you have lots of options. But what do you specifically want to know? And how are the findings relevant to the threat landscape you face...

Evaluating Your Security Controls? Be Sure to Ask the Right Questions

Testing security controls is the only way to know if they are truly defending your organization. With many different testing frameworks and tools to choose from, you have lots of options. But what do you specifically want to know? And how are the findings relevant to the threat landscape you face...

Broadening the Scope: A Comprehensive View of Pen Testing

Penetration tests have long been known as a critical security tool that exposes security weaknesses through simulated attacks on an organization's IT environments. These test results can help prioritize weaknesses, providing a road-map towards remediation. However, the results are also capable of...

nmapAutomator - Tool To Automate All Of The Process Of Recon/Enumeration

nmapAutomator A script that you can run in the background! Summary The main goal for this script is to automate all of the process of recon/enumeration that is run every time, and instead focus our attention on real pen testing. This will ensure two things: 1 Automate nmap scans. 2 Always have so...

Ships engines, a guide for pen testers

I spent several years as a ships engineer before straying in to pen testing. Ships used to be fairly secure; they were physically isolated at sea. Satcoms were scarily expensive, usually available only to the captain for business-critical communication. Even satphone use was heavily rationed. All...

PTP at DEF CON 27

Here's the lowdown on our 14 DEF CON 27 talks, workshops, and panel sessions: Main Stage Track 3 Paris: Saturday 13:00 Chris Wade presents Tag-side attacks against NFC Track 2 Paris: Saturday 15:00 G Richter presents Reverse-Engineering 4g Hotspots for Fun, Bugs and Net Financial Loss Villages...

Black Hat USA 2019 Preview

Las Vegas – Despite bizarre reports of a grasshopper infestation, Black Hat USA 2019 and DEF CON are set to kick off next week in Las Vegas, bringing on a wave of sessions, keynotes and security-themed villages. The Threatpost team, which will be on the frontlines of next week’s shows, discuss wh...

Getting your head under the hood and out of the sand: Automotive security testing

We’ve been doing automotive pen testing for several years now. Along the way we’ve had some fascinating experiences, working with some insightful and forward-thinking OEMs. But we’ve also worked with some OEMs and suppliers that consider pen testing to be a box checking exercise and frankly, buri...

Web Testing Framework Samurai

The Samurai Web Testing Framework is a virtual machine, supported on VirtualBox and VMWare, that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The VM contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites. In developing this...

MobSF (Mobile Security Framework) v1.0 - Mobile (Android/iOS) Automated Pen-Testing Framework

Mobile Security Framework MobSF is an automated, all-in-one mobile application Android/iOS/Windows pen-testing framework capable of performing static, dynamic and malware analysis. It can be used for effective and fast security analysis of Android, iOS and Windows mobile applications and support...

Metateta - Automated Tool For Scanning And Exploiting Network Protocols Using Metasploit

Metateta Automated Tool For Scanning And Exploiting Network Protocols Using Metasploit For faster pen testing for large networks What You Can Do Scanning with all metasploit modules for specific network Protocol like smb,smtp,snmp Run all Auxiliary modules against specific network Protocol Run al...

Vendor BPC Silent on Patching SQL Injection in SmartVista Ecommerce Software

A popular ecommerce platform sold in 60 countries suffers from a SQL injection vulnerability privately disclosed in April that has yet to be patched by the vendor. BPC Banking Technologies of Switzerland has not acknowledged the vulnerability in its SmartVista suite of ecommerce and financial...