Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Introduction Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, popularly referred to as RF pentesting, stands as a vital domain within ethical hacking. Its primary goal is to meticulously identify vulnerabilities inherent within wireless communication systems (Smith & Johnson, 2018). Why is RF Pentesting Necessary?

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 23, 2018

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 19, 2018. — Bradley Geldenhuys (@bradgcoza) April 20, 2018. — Shawn Hartsock (@hartsock) April 20, 2018. — dragosr (@dragosr) April 21, 2018. — Samuel Movi (@samuelmovi) April 20, 2018. — Everything's connected (@oley) April 20, 2018.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 16, 2024

The addition of a high-severity flaw in the Laravel Framework to its Known Exploited... The post CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Laravel Framework RCE Flaw appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. The GandCrab RaaS that appeared in early 2018 was one of the last high-profile threats targeting individuals on a large scale. It vanished from the radar in June 2018, when the ransomware plague took another sharp turn. Targeting enterprises Late 2018 – present day.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 18, 2024

One such formidable entity is the 7777-Botnet, a network of compromised devices that has piqued the interest of security experts... The post The 7777-Botnet Exploit: A New Threat to TP-Link, Xiongmai, and Hikvision appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 19, 2021

Notorious FIN7 gang stole payment card details from retailers around the world Cybercrime gang posed as penetration testing firm to recruit hackers. FIN7 operated a front company called Combi Security, which claimed to offer penetration testing services.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 21, 2024

After a hiatus following 2018, it resurged at the end... The post Zloader’s Comeback: Navigating the Enhanced Trojan Threat appeared first on Penetration Testing. Born from the leaked Zeus source code, Zloader first made its appearance in 2016, targeting German banks.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The cybersecurity landscape is once again under siege, this time from a critical vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion, impacting versions 2018 Update 15 (and earlier) and 2021 Update 5 (and earlier).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes, “the first half of 2018 was marked by an increase in API-related data breaches, with the 10 largest companies reporting the loss of 63 million personal records.” However, solutions such as BLST (Business Logic Security Testing) that provide automatic penetration testing at a budget price are increasingly used.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 9, 2025

In a deep dive published by Guy Bruneau, Senior Security Consultant and former network engineer, the lingering dangers of a years-old Cisco vulnerabilityCVE-2018-0171are laid bare with fresh insights and real-world testing.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Ivan Yermakov worked for the Russian Military Unit 26165 and was indicted by the US DoJ in October 2018, along six other defendants working for the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate ( GRU ), for hacking, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. For the latter service, the men were keeping for them up to 60% of the profit.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Dropbox team disclosed three critical zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-13890, CVE-2018-4176, CVE-2018-4175) affecting the Apple macOS operating system, an attacker could chain them to remotely execute arbitrary code on a targeted Mac computer. The attacker only needs to trick victims into visiting a specially crafted website.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Bugcrowd is used by many enterprises, it allows them to manage bug bounty programs, penetration testing, and vulnerability disclosure. ” According to Bugcrowd, the payouts are increasing year after year, in 2019 experts observed an increase of more than 80% over the payouts assigned during 2018. ” Bugcrowd concludes.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

” Unusually, FIN7 presented itself as a company called Combi Security, which claimed to offer penetration testing services for businesses. Internally within the gang, Kolpakov was described as a “pen tester.” In truth, however, the firm had no legitimate customers.

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Penetration Testing

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

However, a recent investigation by Check Point... The post Old Vulnerabilities, New Attacks: Encrypted MalDocs Evade Detection appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2021

Starting from 2016 the group developed a new custom malware using Cobalt Strike, a legitimate penetration testing framework. Hladyr was sentenced in the Western District of Washington, he was arrested in Dresden, Germany, in 2018, at the request of U.S. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 21, 2018

I visited with Dan Cornell at Black Hat USA 2018. There will be certain strategic aspects that include developing a road map of what they want to accomplish, how to incorporate threat modeling, how they are going to incorporate static, dynamic and penetration testing, and how they are going to do security evangelism to the developer.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 19, 2024

One such threat, identified and analyzed by Juniper Threat Labs, is AndroxGh0st, a Python-based malware specifically... The post AndroxGh0st: The Python Malware Targeting Laravel Apps appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 19, 2021

In November 2018, The New York Times reported that a total of 3.5 Army and other entities have taken trainings provided by Offensive Security , including courses in penetration testing, web application and exploit development that align with industry-leading certifications. The cybersecurity industry is hiring.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

“For purer extortionists, the threat actor TDO used the KickAss forum to recruit individuals with network management, penetration testing, and programming skills. “These emails have been reported intermittently since late 2017, but the scale and persistence of the campaigns rocketed over 2018.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 22, 2025

In this entry, lets focus on test day itselfand how to maximize the educational, financial, and professional value of the OSCP exam experience. OffSec has gone to great lengths to make the OSCP a realistic simulation of a black-box penetration test; however, to ensure fair grading and timely results, it comes with inherent limitations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That object was crafted on 2018-10-09 but it was seen only on 2018-10-12. According to VirusTotal the software was “seen in the Wild” in 2010 but submitted only on 2018-10-12! I do have experience on security testing since I have been performing penetration testing on several US electronic voting systems.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Fincantieri who was not involved in the previous ‘MartyMcFly’ attack identified and blocked additional threats targeting their wide infrastructure intercepted on during the week of 20th August 2018, about a couple of months before the ‘MartyMcFly’ campaign. Whois data of “anchors-chain.com”.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Naturally, combining external scans with internal vulnerability probes and penetration testing engagements can provide organizations with a much more holistic picture of their security posture. But it would happen again — on at least two occasions earlier this year.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

There’s an old saying in security: “Everyone gets penetration tested, whether or not they pay someone for the pleasure.” The update stated the attackers had gained access to nearly 32,000 Citrix accounts through password spraying. So what does this user pick? Yes, “Monkeybutt.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The downloaded PE Executable is a.NET file created by ExtendedScript Toolkit (according to compilation time) on 2018-11-13 15:21:54 and submitted a few hours later on VirusTotal. I do have experience in security testing since I have been performing penetration testing on several US electronic voting systems.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However most of the new attacks, qualitative speaking, happened during the time frame between 2018 to 2019. Intelligence, humanInt, information gathering, informal test and so on, are not included in Weaponization since coming directly into the ATT&CK framework. Weaponization Timeline.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Starting from 2016 the group developed a new custom malware using Cobalt Strike, a legitimate penetration testing framework. In January 2018 foreign authorities also arrested Fedir Hladyr in Dresden, Germany, he is currently detained in Seattle pending trial. link] [link]. The man is suspected to be a supervisor of the group.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

group_b : from August 2017 to January 2018 3. group_c : from January 2018 to February 2018 4. During my PhD program I worked for US Government (@ National Institute of Standards and Technology, Security Division) where I did intensive researches in Malware evasion techniques and penetration testing of electronic voting systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

” In 2018, the European Central Bank has published the European framework for testing financial sector resilience to cyber attacks. The framework also includes the involvement of “red teams” for vulnerability assessments and penetration tests of systems used by companies in the financial sector.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Spirent Communications , an 82-year-old British supplier of network performance testing equipment, recently decided to branch into cybersecurity services by tackling this dilemma head on. Spirent pivoted into security testing two years ago with the launch of its CyberFlood security and application performance testing platform.

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Penetration Testing

AUGUST 5, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a critical warning about a Microsoft COM for Windows vulnerability, CVE-2018-0824, which is currently being exploited by malicious actors.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The 2018 State of IoT Security study took a poll of 700 organizations in the US, UK, Germany, France and Japan and found IoT is well on its way to be to be woven into all facets of daily business operations. It bears repeating: •Review risk: Perform penetration testing to assess the risk of connected devices.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2021

In 2018 three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe were arrested and taken into custody by US authorities. The arrest was announced by Europol on 26 March 2018. The arrest. Arresting the leader of that group did not stop the activities of the group though.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Starting from 2016 the group developed a new custom malware using Cobalt Strike, a legitimate penetration testing framework. In January 2018 foreign authorities also arrested Fedir Hladyr in Dresden, Germany, he is currently detained in Seattle pending trial. link] [link]. The man is suspected to be a supervisor of the group.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

According to Dragos, the Hexane group has been active since at least the middle of 2018, it intensified its activity since early 2019 with an escalation of tensions within the Middle East. The group also used the ‘Decrypt-RDCMan.ps1,’ that is a password decryption tool included in the PoshC2 framework for penetration testing.

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