Most Post-Intrusion Cyber Attacks Involve Everyday Admin Tools

Think hackers use advanced malware and mysterious tools once they have infiltrated a network? According to security startup LightCyber, most attackers use the same mainstream security tools the good guys use, only for lateral movement, network mapping and remote control of endpoints. Of course,...

The Correlated Vulnerability And Threat Database: vFeed

vFeed Framework is a CVE, CWE and OVAL Compatible naming scheme concept that provides extra structured detailed third-party references and technical characteristics for a CVE entry through an extensible XML/JSON schema. It also improves the reliability of CVEs by providing a flexible and...

Zero-Day Warning! Ransomware targets Microsoft Office 365 Users

If just relying on the security tools of Microsoft Office 365 can protect you from cyber attacks, you are wrong. Variants of Cerber Ransomware are now targeting MS Office 365 email users with a massive zero-day attack that has the ability to bypass Office 365's built-in security tools. According ...

Microsoft Offers Pro-Tips on Avoiding Credential Theft

With the scourge of digital credential theft on the rise Microsoft is urging IT admin to button-up their networks and get serious about passwords and account security. The IT behemoth posted on Tuesday a best practices cheat sheet for administrators along with updating customers on some of the...

Direct Communication with Webmasters Fixes Bugs Quicker

Google has trumpeted its Safe Browsing alerts as a key component in redirecting victims away from potentially malicious websites. An offshoot of that work is that apparently webmasters heed those warnings too and remediate vulnerabilities and bugs quicker. A co-branded study between Google and th...

Tools recommended: Scanner Routerhunter, the router vulnerability scanner-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 0×0 0 Preface We will introduce a Automatic mining router vulnerability test tools, it can be automated on the Internet a wide range of search contains a vulnerability in the routing test, further confirmed these vulnerabilities, which relates to the D-link multiple router. The tool is using...

Firmwalker - Script for searching the extracted firmware file system for goodies!

A simple bash script for searching the extracted or mounted firmware file system. It will search through the extracted or mounted firmware file system for things of interest such as: etc/shadow and etc/passwd list out the etc/ssl directory search for SSL related files such as .pem, .crt, etc...

Appie v3 - Android Pentesting Portable Integrated Environment

Appie is a software package that has been pre-configured to function as an Android Pentesting Environment on any windows based machine without the need of a Virtual MachineVM or dualboot. It is completely portable and can be carried on USB stick or your smartphone. It is one of its kind Android...

Penbox - A Tool That Has All The Tools, Penetration Tester'S Repo

PenBox A Penetration Testing Framework , The Hacker's Repo our hope is in the last version we will have evry script that a hacker needs : Requirements Python 2 sudoer Versions Version v1.1 : DrupalHacking : 1: Drupal Bing Exploiter 2: Get Drupal Websites 3: Drupal Mass Exploiter PrivatTools: 1 Ge...

Pyersinia - Network Attack Tool

Pyersinia is a similar tool to Yersinia, but Pyersinia is implemented in Python using Scapy. The main objective is the realization of network attacks such as spoofing ARP, DHCP DoS , STP DoS among others. The community can add new attacks on the tool in a simple way, using plugins. This is becaus...

VirusTotal Mac OS X App Sandbox Support

Mac malware is a thing. It’s real. Granted it hasn’t reached the critical mass of malicious code for Windows, but recent encounters with WireLurker, XcodeGhost and YiSpecter among others have elevated the conversation to levels where it’s been legitimized. Adding further credence, Google-owned...

Writing OS X Malware at Black Hat 2015

Patrick Wardle has one word for today’s generation of Mac OS X malware: lame. Sure there are advanced samples out there developed by nation-state sponsored groups or exploit vendors such as Hacking Team, but for the most part, Wardle says, we’re still talking about malware that are standalone...

Microsoft Classifies Ask Toolbar as 'Unwanted' Software

Microsoft has reclassified the Ask Toolbar as unwanted software, which means its security tools will automatically detect and remove all versions, except for the most recent, from Windows computers. Ask Toolbar is an interface to the 20-year-old Ask.com search engine, and it’s included in among...

Web Security Dojo - Training Environment for Web Application Security Penetration Testing

A free open-source self-contained training environment for Web Application Security penetration testing. Tools + Targets = Dojo What? Various web application security testing tools and vulnerable web applications were added to a clean install of Ubuntu v10.04.2, which is patched with the...

Portable Penetration Testing Distribution for Windows: PentestBox

PentestBox is not like other Penetration Testing Distributions which runs on virtual machines. It is created because more than 70% of penetration testing distributions users uses windows and provides an efficient platform for Penetration Testing on windows. It provides all security tools as a...

New Release: Kali Linux for Docker — Deploy and Play!

The Developers of one of the most advanced open source operating system for penetration testing called 'KALI Linux' have made the operating system available for Docker-addicted system administrators. But, What’s Docker? Docker is a new open-source container technology, released in June 2014, that...

The Penetration Testers Framework (PTF) - Is a Way for Modular Support for Up-to-date Tools

A TrustedSec Project - The PenTesters Framework PTF is a Python script designed for Debian/Ubuntu based distributions to create a similar and familiar distribution for Penetration Testing. As pentesters, we've been accustom to the /pentest/ directories or our own toolsets that we want to keep...

New Evasion Techniques Help AlienSpy RAT Spread Citadel Malware

Hackers have co-opted AlienSpy, a remote access tool, to deliver the Citadel banking Trojan and establish backdoors inside a number of critical infrastructure operations. AlienSpy is a descendent of the Adwind, Unrecom and Frutas Java-based remote access Trojans, according to security company...

Exploit Pack - Open Source Security Project for Penetration Testing and Exploit Development

Exploit Pack, is an open source GPLv3 security tool, this means it is fully free and you can use it without any kind of restriction. Other security tools like Metasploit, Immunity Canvas, or Core Iimpact are ready to use as well but you will require an expensive license to get access to all the...

Netflix Open Source Security Tools Solve Range of Challenges

Few organizations experience the scale of Web-based application security challenges that Netflix engineers deal with on a regular basis. Sometimes the response to a threat requires a homespun tool that, more often than not, ends up being released to open source. “Our assumption is that we...