the youtube live stream scammers are back. as the user might have noted, this scheme originated from TWITTER. it worked like that: a lot of (foreign sponsored) scammers have created fake-Elon-Musk accounts (that look realistic, have a lot of fake-followers) […]
a well faked Mail Attachment.pdf.zip was opened by a team member, infecting a (Windows 10?) PC in the background browser login tokens in the form of cookies & browser passwords were exfiltrated mail attachments are STILL the #No1 threat in […]
(knowing that manually auto-translating Russian CyberSec news to English, is not a feasable concept and need to be automated, but as this blog is non-profit, it is for curiosity.) Booking.com found an authentication vulnerability that allows account hijacking A vulnerability […]
and again: another “Elon Musk will give you bitcoin if you scan this QR code” fake scam live stream of an recorded video in loop 2023-01: (using the same video X-D) this also works so well because youtube allows the […]
JavaScript screwed up …. AGAIN! (another example for “why is it NOT cool for executable script languages to be allowed to embedd into PDF or any other file format”) used to steal BILLIONS of NF… ucking Ts: https://research.checkpoint.com/2022/how-hackers-make-nfts-disappear/ really should […]
Efficiency is good in terms of: saving resources. Same results with less (power and other) input. BUT: good people need to be cultivated, by culture. Culture does not simply mean “gifts on Christmas” and “Lederhosen”. (that’s what it has become, […]
How much is the ? it links to: (which obviously a hacked site?) host einbindung.com einbindung.com has address 119.18.54.44 einbindung.com mail is handled by 0 mail.einbindung.com. running on those servers: role: Hostgator India – Network Division address: Near Kings Park […]
“Eine interne Prüfung hat ergeben, dass die mit Ihrem DKB-Konto verknüpfte Mobilfunknummer nicht verifiziert wurde.” “Wir sind daher verpflichtet, eine Datenprüfung und eine Nummernprüfung durchzuführen. Aus Sicherheitsgründen sind wir verpflichtet, den Zugriff auf Ihr DKB-Konto zu beschränken. Wenn Sie Ihre […]
“The biggest network security threat today is a remote code execution exploit for Intel’s Management Engine.” “Every computer with an Intel chipset produced in the last decade would be vulnerable to this exploit, and RCE would give an attacker full […]
Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]
cyber is on heightened alarm levels … ya’ll know why. timeline of a successful attack on the most basic tools like: exiftool cve-2021-22204 (failed to properly validate parsed input) This was reported by a security researcher on April 7, 2021, […]
https://cve.circl.lu/cve/CVE-2019-19781 https://www.healthcare-computing.de/bsi-warnt-vor-schwachstelle-bei-vpn-produkten-von-citrix-a-964940/ https://www.cnblogs.com/lsgxeva/p/12116150.html hits healthcare hospital in Germany, causing death of (at least) 1 person https://www.businessinsider.de/politik/deutschland/hacker-legen-uniklinik-duesseldorf-lahm-staatsanwaltschaft-ermittelt-wegen-todesfall-einer-patientin/
“The Duri malware, for example, uses the Javascript blob technique. The attacks are triggered by visiting a website with the malicious code.” (this could be a well known, sincere, but hacked website) “By downloading, the malware can install itself on […]
criminals abusing tor for malicous behavior should be blocked, right? “50% of the attacks are leveraging the Tor anonymity service to mask their true origins” https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/new-local-attack-vector-expands-attack.html this could destroy the “honest” part of the network that truly exists, because it […]
“log4j is a reliable, fast and flexible logging framework (APIs) written in Java, which is distributed under the Apache Software License.log4j has been ported to the C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Eiffel languages.” (src: tutorialspoint.com) easy exploitable […]
just for info: this is NOT my PC, not using Windows 10 (Windows 7 only for gaming X-D) what the user sees is a perfectly windows fake update message, that says “Edge Update Version 94.0.4577 (official Version)” so the user […]
warning: no guarantee of completeness! contains ads! (but owner of blog get’s nothing, maybe source of source does) Are the odds against the (itsec) defenders? It certainly feels that way, because no human can ever find all bugs, so Fuzzing […]
in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]
every user want’s a fast & responsive internet. BIND and DNS – the Phonebook of the internet – Berkeley Internet Name Domain – how to benchmark dns servers (find fastest) – LibreDNS There is nothing more anoying than slow loading […]
“In 2019, spending in the cybersecurity industry reached around $40.8 billion, with forecasts suggesting that the market will eclipse 54 billion U.S. dollars by 2021 as the best-case scenario, taking into account the coronavirus (COVID-19) impact. As many organizations around […]
SecurityLab, [12.01.21 15:23] The developer of the Salaat First (Prayer Times) app, which reminds Muslims when to pray, recorded and sold detailed information about their location to a data broker without the users ‘ knowledge, who in turn sold the […]
why are those data leaks problematic? because scammers and spammers will use this data to even better scam (social engineer) the affected users that is why it is essential to give those platforms (if the user needs them) as little […]
scroll down to ENGLISH “Zehntausende Mail-Server wegen Exchange-Lücke gehackt. Wegen einer vor wenigen Tagen bekanntgewordenen Sicherheitslücke sind laut US-Medienberichten Zehntausende E-Mail-Server von Unternehmen, Behörden und Bildungseinrichtungen Opfer von Hacker-Attacken geworden. “Deutsche Unternehmen sind im internationalen Vergleich besonders stark von dieser […]
SecurityLab, [22.12.20 10:00] Google has explained the reasons for the massive failure of its services that took place last week. Recall that on December 14 of this year, users around the world for 47 minutes could not access Gmail, YouTube […]
Update: 2021-05: https://www.golem.de/news/irland-erste-patientendaten-im-netz-aufgetaucht-2105-156599.html Drei Krankheiten: erfolgreich kaputt gespart: schlechte Bezahlung: im Vergleich mit anderen EU-Ländern und auch USA steht Deutschland schlecht da was die Entlohnung von Ärzte an geht auch schlechter als Japan und gar Italien (!) das ist vermutlich […]
not sure if the news rang through… the Amazon Cloud (AWS) guy will be the new CEO of Amazon. What cloud? Amazon “cloud” Hetzner “cloud” cloud (centralized digital infrastructure) can be designed / implemented in different ways. from: the user/admin […]
SecurityLab, [03.12.20 11:15] Vulnerabilities in open source software can go undetected for more than four years before being discovered. According to the GitHub State of the Octoverse annual report, the use of open source projects, components, and libraries is more […]
accroding to BleepingComputer: “zero-day vulnerability in their VPN products” (so not FallOut of SolarWinds-orion-auto-update-software-supply-chain) “…have information about hacking of a well-known firewall vendor and other security products by this they are silent and do not release press releases for their […]
SecurityLab, [02.11.20 11:52] The 50-year-old businessman (Hunter Biden?) in April 2019 brought his device to the IT store Mac Shop in Delaware for repair, but never returned to pick it up. The device was soon seized by the FBI. According […]
Overview Recent 360Netlab unknown threat detection system to capture to a group of unknown malicious families of the sample, which a number of samples supported CPU architectures are x86(32/64), ARM(32/64), MIPS(MIPS32/MIPS-III) as well as PPC, after our analysis, which is […]