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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

Today I’d like to share an interesting analysis of a Targeted Attack found and dissected by Yoroi (technical details are available here ). How Microsoft Excel is able to decrypt such a content if no password is requested to the end user? A quick analysis of the Stage2 exposes a new object inclusion. (as

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FERC issues notice of proposed rulemaking to extend reporting requirements for cyberattacks targeting the energy sector

Data Protection Report

DHS’ webinar explained that the hackers obtained access to vendors providing computer services to electric utilities companies. These attacks trick victims into entering passwords and other personal information, giving hackers access to corporate networks. The hackers used tactics such as phishing emails and watering-hole attacks.

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Frequent VBA Macros used in Office Malware

Security Affairs

Obfuscation comes to make the analysis harder and harder, but once you overcome that stage you would probably see a VBA code looking like the following one. Actually I did see this code few times related to manual attacks back in 2017. In your next VBA Macro analysis keep in mind those stereotypes and speed up your analysis.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Dave Kennedy started as forensic analysis and cyber warfare specialist in the US Marine Corps before entering the enterprise space. Denial-of-Suez attack.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud. As is true with any cloud service, the Seattle cloud computing company emphasizes the shared responsibility model. Also read our in-depth analysis of the formerly named Imperva SecureSphere. Alibaba Cloud.

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RedTorch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp.

Krebs on Security

Frigg, another core RedTorch offering, is…well, friggin’ spooky: “Frigg is the easiest way to do a full background check and behavioral analysis on people,” the product pitch reads. In a scathing analysis of Norse’s findings, critical infrastructure security expert Robert M. Grey’s profile at RedTorch.