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A member of the FIN7 group was sentenced to 10 years in prison

Security Affairs

The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated group FIN7 , aka Carbanak. Hladyr also controlled the organization’s encrypted channels of communication.”

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

What are the results of the provider’s most recent penetration tests? Does the provider encrypt data while in transit and at rest? Specifically, these tools address a number of security requirements, including patch management , endpoint encryption, VPNs , and insider threat prevention among others.

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

The certification covers active defense, defense in depth, access control, cryptography, defensible network architecture and network security, incident handling and response, vulnerability scanning and penetration testing, security policy, IT risk management, virtualization and cloud security , and Windows and Linux security.

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FIN7 sysadmin behind “billions in damage” gets 10 years

Malwarebytes

Hladyr is the systems administrator for the FIN7 hacking group, and is considered the mastermind behind the Carbanak campaign , a series of cyberattacks said to stolen as much as $900 million from banks in early part of the last decade. Hladyr also controlled the organization’s encrypted channels of communication.

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New Linux/DDosMan threat emerged from an evolution of the older Elknot

Security Affairs

But let’s see what are the execution binaries and what an administrator will see because this analysis IS for rise the system administration awareness: Code execution: execve("/tmp/upgrade""); // to execute upgrade. Further details of this family of ELF malware we posted regularly in here:–>[link]”.

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Your Journey Starts Here

Kali Linux

If you haven’t jumped in for whatever reason, we want to introduce you to the plethora of resources we’ve made available to help you master Kali Linux, the penetration testing distribution. Don’t worry, this isn’t a sales pitch.

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Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021

SecureList

To make matters worse, with the development of penetration-testing tools and services, the dark market saw the rise of new malicious tools. These tools are developed and used for legitimate services, such as assessing clients’ security infrastructure and potential for successful network penetration.