Critical Flaws Affect Embedded TCP/IP Stack Widely Used in Industrial Control Devices

Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday disclosed 14 vulnerabilities affecting a commonly-used TCP/IP stack used in millions of Operational Technology (OT) devices manufactured by no fewer than 200 vendors and deployed in manufacturing plants, power generation, water treatment, and critical infrastructure sectors. The shortcomings, collectively dubbed "INFRA:HALT," target NicheStack, potentially
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Praying Mantis: APT Hackers Group Using ASP.NET Exploits To Attack Windows IIS Servers

Sygnia Incident Response Team found an advanced and persistent threat actor named “Praying Mantis” or “TG2021”, operating completely in memory. The attacks targeted Windows internet-facing servers to load a completely volatile, custom malware platform customized for the Windows IIS environment. How does TG1021: “Praying Mantis” Operates? Experts say TG1021 use a completely volatile and custom […] The post Praying Mantis: APT Hackers Group Using ASP.NET Exploits To Attack Windows IIS Servers appeared first on Cyber Security News.
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Beware!! Malicious Content Being Served Via archive.org

Security researcher uncovered a malicious thread that was being served in the archive.org(Way back Machine), and it has been detected by only a limited number of Antivirus solutions. Archive.org also know as the “Way Back Machine” offers you to travel back to the old web pages of the websites since every website on the internet […] The post Beware!! Malicious Content Being Served Via archive.org appeared first on Cyber Security News.
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Chinese Hackers Target Major Southeast Asian Telecom Companies

Three distinct clusters of malicious activities operating on behalf of Chinese state interests have staged a series of attacks to target networks belonging to at least five major telecommunications companies located in Southeast Asian countries since 2017. "The goal of the attackers behind these intrusions was to gain and maintain continuous access to telecommunication providers and to
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Solarmarker InfoStealer Malware Once Again Making its Way Into the Wild

Healthcare and education sectors are the frequent targets of a new surge in credential harvesting activity from what's a "highly modular" .NET-based information stealer and keylogger, charting the course for the threat actor's continued evolution while simultaneously remaining under the radar. Dubbed "Solarmarker," the malware campaign is believed to be active since September 2020, with
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What is OAuth 2.0 ? How it Works ? A Detailed Explanation of Authorization Framework

OAuth 2.0 is the industry-standard protocol for authorization. OAuth 2.0 supersedes the work done on the original OAuth protocol created in 2006. The OAuth 2.0 authorization framework enables a third-party application to obtain limited access to an HTTP service, either on behalf of a resource owner by orchestrating an approval interaction between the resource owner […] The post What is OAuth 2.0 ? How it Works ? A Detailed Explanation of Authorization Framework appeared first on Cyber Security News.
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Introducing ‘Known Distributors’

This article has been indexed from VirusTotal Blog  Providing more context about file provenance and distribution These days many security operations center (SOC) teams are overwhelmed by huge volumes of alerts. Triaging these alerts takes too long, and many are… Read more → The post Introducing ‘Known Distributors’ first appeared on IT Security News.
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Node.js RCE Vulnerability Let Attackers Exploit & Crash The Apps

Recently, a security researcher Matthew Douglass have detected a use-after-free vulnerability in Node.js (an RCE Vulnerability) which is marked with a tag of high severity, and experts have tracked this as:- “Use-after-free on close http2 on stream canceling (High) (CVE-2021-22930)“ However, Node.js has already released the security update for this high severity vulnerability, and apart […] The post Node.js RCE Vulnerability Let Attackers Exploit & Crash The Apps appeared first on Cyber Security News.
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Exploit Code Released for a Critical Flaw in Linux Kernel eBPF on Ubuntu Machines

This article has been indexed from E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News   Cybersecurity researcher Manfred Paul revealed the details of the code for abusing a critical flaw in the Linux eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet… Read more → The post Exploit Code Released for a Critical Flaw in Linux Kernel eBPF on Ubuntu Machines first appeared on IT Security News.
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Penetration testing

Penetration testing is the technical analysis of the safety level of IT systems and networks. We offer a complete investigation of the hardware / software systems for security vulnerabilities. If you have at least one online service, then you must… Read more → The post Penetration testing first appeared on IT Security News.
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