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How Cobalt Strike Became a Favorite Tool of Hackers

eSecurity Planet

Pentesting involves vulnerability exploitation and post-exploitation actions – the idea is to conduct a real attack, like cybercriminals would do, except with an explicit authorization from the company in order to identify weaknesses and improve security defenses. While that’s true, it requires time, effort, and energy.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2025

SecureList

The devices were initially infected with Moobot, a Mirai-based malware, which was then used to deploy additional scripts and facilitate targeted attacks against various entities, collect credentials, proxy network traffic, establish reverse SSH tunnels, host spoofed landing pages, and control other remote systems infected with a Python backdoor.

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6 Best Threat Intelligence Feeds to Use in 2023

eSecurity Planet

Additionally, dashboards share data about threat names, any relevant reference URLs, tags, adversary and malware families, and attack IDs. Pricing All OTX products and features, including the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange and OTX Endpoint Security, are free to use on their own.

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Hidden Biases in Cybersecurity Reviews – And How to Use Them

eSecurity Planet

For example, when surveying the market for email security, survey results should include respondents from each category that might represent different needs. The survey should have representation from categories such as: Company size: small to large Industry vertical: healthcare, energy, etc.

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

Before companies can effectively and safely use generative AI tools, employees must be educated on utilizing best practices: writing prompts that achieve desired outcomes, keeping data security and privacy in mind when inputting data, identifying the quality and security of AI, verifying AI output, and more,” elaborates Arti Raman, CEO Portal26.