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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

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Dark Pink is an emerging APT group that has been active since mid-2021, with their first successful attack observed in June 2022. The group operates in the APAC region and employs sophisticated techniques, including DLL side-loading and Event Triggered Execution, to launch custom malware and maintain persistence.

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Timeline: How a Hacker Tried to Poison a City

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This should be treated as a matter of national security. February 8, 2021. And it is raising questions about the security practices in place for this piece of critical infrastructure. TeamViewer is a popular tool used by organizations around the world, and the company expects 30% growth in 2021, as work from home continues.

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Common Techniques Hackers Use to Penetrate Systems and How to Protect Your Organization

ForAllSecure

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. Software Vulnerabilities Exploiting software vulnerabilities is one of the most common ways that hackers penetrate systems.

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EP 49: LoL

ForAllSecure

Living off the Land (LoL) is an attack where files already on your machine, ie your operating system, are used against you. So I started thinking about other ways to hide messages or even how to get malware onto a system without it being detected. Like all the unused files within your operating system?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

But to protect these systems, we need to understand these systems. So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. They are unto themselves their own things.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Hyper-V

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At Black Hat USA 2021, researchers presented how they used their own fuzzer designed for hypervisors to find a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure. It's the software that emulates a physical computer virtually to run programs operating systems stored data connected networks and do other typical computing functions.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

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Vamosi: In the summer of 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the US. They used a scientific method, within a controlled environment, to measure the speed at which 100 samples of ransomware from 10 popular variants encrypted nearly 100,000 files, totaling nearly 53GB, across different Windows operating systems and hardware specifications.

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