Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Single SpamBot had 711 million records of which 80 million are credentials


“Just for a sense of scale, that’s almost one address for every single man, woman and child in all of Europe,” Hunt wrote

The spambot is called Onliner and it’s been around since 2016 and is best known for spreading the Ursnif banking Trojan.


For more info:
https://threatpost.com/spambot-contains-mind-boggling-amount-of-email-smtp-credentials/127722/

Friday, August 25, 2017

Can you change a benign email to a malicious one after it has been sent? - YES , we have ROPEMAKER




Ropemaker - stands for Remotely Originated Post-delivery Email Manipulation Attacks Keeping Email Risky

A successful exploitation of the Ropemaker attack could allow an attacker to remotely modify the content of an email sent by the attacker itself, for example swapping a URL with the malicious one.

This can be done even after the email has already been delivered to the recipient and made it through all the necessary spam and security filters, without requiring direct access to the recipient’s computer or email application, exposing hundreds of millions of desktop email client users to malicious attacks.


More Details Here:
https://thehackernews.com/2017/08/change-email-content.html

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Dark Side of Technology - Sound based hacks (CovertBand)





  • Detect people’s activities
  • Induce false readings in a phone’s accelerometer
  • balancing gyroscopes like drones and hoverboards could be similarly disrupted
  • remotely hacking into air-gapped computers
  • Covert Sonic Weapon


More details here:
https://www.fastcompany.com/40455626/hack-music-can-watch-you-through-your-devices

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

check your password if it is already in the compromised list


You think you have a strong password
Or
You create a new password and you believe it is good enough

Are you sure it is not part of the  compromised password list?


Go the the site below and test your password.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Wannacry and NotPetya are just the beginning - Can you detect lateral movement from Event Logs - Yes but how?




Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC) has a excellent document 


Japan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC) extracted tools used by many attackers by investigating recently confirmed cases of targeted attacks. Then, a research was conducted to investigate what kind of logs were left on the server and clients by using such tools, and what settings need to be configured to obtain logs that contain sufficient evidential information. This report is a summary of the results of this research

The following Page has a PDF link 

https://www.jpcert.or.jp/english/pub/sr/ir_research.html


Tuesday, July 18, 2017

You have heard gone in 60 seconds - How about 7 million gone in 180 seconds


It only took three minutes for someone to realise that the CoinDash site had been hacked, and that it was telling investors to send their money to the wrong address – but already over $7 million had been stolen.

More Here:
https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/ethereum-cryptocurrency-heist-7-million-reportedly-stolen-simple-hack/