UPDATE: FactionC2 2019-10-20

PenTestIT RSS Feed FactionC2 2019-10-20 was released a couple of days ago by the author. This C2 framework was briefly mentioned in my previous post titled List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. This release most importantly contains upgrades to .Net Core 3 version among additional...

Three Service Account Secrets Straight from Hackers and Security Pros

Barbara Hoffman, Product Marketing Manager, Thycotic Nearly 19,000 infosec experts travel from all over the world to attend the annual Black Hat Conference. They come to share, educate and disclose their security research on the latest vulnerabilities and cyberthreats. We here at Thycotic love to...

Announcing the Sixth Annual Flare-On Challenge

The FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team is thrilled to announce that the popular Flare-On reverse engineering challenge will return for the sixth straight year. The contest will begin at 8:00 p.m. ET on Aug. 16, 2019. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring...

Software Developers and Security

According to a survey: "68% of the security professionals surveyed believe it's a programmer's job to write secure code, but they also think less than half of developers can spot security holes." And that's a problem. Nearly half of security pros surveyed, 49%, said they struggle to get developer...

Addressing the Cyber Security Skills Gap, Part 1

Operating in an adversarial driven world, cyber defenders are faced with many obstacles. In effort to keep pace with our adversarial counterpart, the cyber security skills gap has become the silent oppressor. In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series we will define the implications presented by th...

Spyse.Py - Python API Wrapper And Command-Line Client For The Tools Hosted On Spyse.Com

Python API wrapper and command-line client for the tools hosted on spyse.com. "Spyse is a developer of complete DAAS Data-As-A-Service solutions for Internet security professionals, corporate and remote system administrators, SSL / TLS encryption certificate providers, data centers and business...

Inside the MSRC – Customer-centric incident response

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC is an integral part of Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Center CDOC that brings together security response experts from across the company to help protect, detect, and respond to threats in real-time. Staffed with dedicated teams 24×7, the CDOC has...

Cybersecurity pros think the enemy is winning

There is a saying in security that the bad guys are always one step ahead of defense. Two new sets of research reveal that the constant cat-and-mouse game is wearing on security professionals, and many feel they are losing in the war against cybercriminals. The first figures are from the...

Malwarebytes Labs wins best cybersecurity vendor blog at InfoSec’s European Security Blogger Awards

Infosec Europe is now well underway, and last night was the annual EU Security Blogger Awards, where InfoSecurity Magazine: …recognises the best blogs in the industry as first nominated by peers and then judged by a panel of mostly respected industry experts. Malwarebytes Labs was announced as...

Best Cyber Security Certifications 2019

By Owais Sultan Today, Cyber security is one of the fastest growing industry. The increasing numbers of the data breaches and cyber attacks have likewise increased the need for cyber security professionals to take defensive measures against these threats. Organizations are spending more and more ...

Exploring botnets in VR

By Asaf Nadler & Lior Lahav Botnets often use domain generation algorithms DGAs to select a domain name, which bots use to establish communication channels with their command and control servers C2. Since Akamai analyzes over 2.2 trillion DNS requests per day, and detects thousands of active...

WPScan v3.4.5 - Black Box WordPress Vulnerability Scanner

WPScan is a free, for non-commercial use, black box WordPress vulnerability scanner written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their sites. INSTALL Prerequisites Optional but highly recommended: RVM Ruby = 2.3 - Recommended: latest Ruby 2.5.0 to 2.5.3 can caus...

Trying DetectionLab

Many security professionals run personal labs. Trying to create an environment that includes fairly modern Windows systems can be a challenge. In the age of "infrastructure as code," there should be a simpler way to deploy systems in a repeatable, virtualized way -- right? Enter DetectionLab, a...

Sn0Int - Semi-automatic OSINT Framework And Package Manager

sn0int is a semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager. It was built for IT security professionals and bug hunters to gather intelligence about a given target or about yourself. sn0int is enumerating attack surface by semi-automatically processing public information and mapping the result...

Top 5 Threat Hunting Myths: “EDR Is Threat Hunting”

The cybersecurity landscape is in a constant state of change and, as many organizations have learned, it’s no longer a matter of if you’ll face a cyberattack, but when. In today’s world, attackers intentionally look normal to evade automated defenses. With the rise of ransomware, fileless and...

WPScan v3.4.0 - Black Box WordPress Vulnerability Scanner

WPScan is a free, for non-commercial use, black box WordPress vulnerability scanner written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their sites. INSTALL Prerequisites: Ruby = 2.2.2 - Recommended: 2.3.3 Curl = 7.21 - Recommended: latest - FYI the 7.29 has a segfault...

44% of Security Professionals Spend More than 20 Hours a Week Responding to Alerts

As the global cybersecurity climate continues to heat up, so too do the subsequent levels of alert fatigue IT security professionals have to deal with. A recent survey by Imperva reveals that nine percent of UK security teams battle with over five million alerts each week. Five million, just let...

6 ways to keep up with cybersecurity without going crazy

As we dive headfirst into National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it seems only fitting to discuss ways to stay on top of developments in modern cybersecurity and privacy. What's the best way to stay protected? How can you determine if something is a scam? Which big company has been breached now?...

Moodle 3.x PHP Unserialize Remote Code Execution Exploit

Exploit for php platform in category web applications ======================================================================= title: Remote Code Execution via PHP unserialize product: Moodle - Open-source learning platform vulnerable version: 3.5 to 3.5.1, 3.4 to 3.4.4, 3.1 to 3.1.13 and earlier...

Partner Perspectives: VMRay + Carbon Black Bridge the Gap Between Threat Hunting & Incident Response

In 2016, Carbon Black and VMRay introduced an out-of-the-box integration combining the capabilities of two industry-best platforms: Cb Response and the VMRay Analyzer. Leveraging the threat hunting and incident response capabilities of Cb Response, alongside the malware analysis and detection...