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Exclusive: Lighting the Exfiltration Infrastructure of a LockBit Affiliate (and more)

Security Affairs

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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MY TAKE: Michigan’s Cyber Range hubs provide career paths to high-schoolers, underutilized adults

The Last Watchdog

Both were well-equipped to teach, test and train individuals ranging from teen-agers and non-technical adults, to working system administrators and even seasoned tech security pros. Healtcare company Spectrum Health is a consortium member, and its director of information security, Jim Kuiphof, serves as an advisor to Tuttle.

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Dissecting the malicious arsenal of the Makop ransomware gang

Security Affairs

The tool is basically a search engine for local and network shared files inside a Windows environment: unlike the default Windows search, it is designed to locate files and folders by filename instantly, speeding up system information discovery. Its name is YDArk and it is an open-source tool available even on GitHub ( link ).

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Updates from the MaaS: new threats delivered through NullMixer

Security Affairs

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

It was not until May 2011 that the next major version of BackTrack got released, which also happens to be the last, BackTrack 5. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability.

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