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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

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BlackLotus is a stealthy Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit, a type of malware that can circumvent Secure Boot defenses. It is the first known malware capable of bypassing Secure Boot on fully up-to-date Windows 11 systems with UEFI Secure Boot enabled.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Gaining Persistence On Windows Boxes

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From her talk at SecTor 2022 , Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO of Cqure , returns to The Hacker Mind and explains how a lot of little configuration errors in common Windows tools and services can open the door to persistence on a system for bad actors and what sysadmins can do to mitigate these. Often they hide in common misconfigurations.

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EP 49: LoL

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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: Fuzzing Hyper-V

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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. There's also a lot of stuff that simply isn't well documented. This then becomes fertile ground for cutting edge security research. So that's complexity.