A week in security (December 21- December 27)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we warned our readers about not so festive social media scams, how Emotet returned just...
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Freedom Finance’s customer data got leaked after employee fell for phishing attack
Broker Freedom Finance admitted the fact of hacking its internal network and stealing data leaks about 16,000 clients of the...
Top 20 Most Popular Hacking Tools in 2020
Although 2020 has been the worst year since 1945, as last year, this year we made a ranking with the...
Taking Inspiration from our Security Nation in an Otherwise Uninspiring Year
Well, what a year it has been. I won’t waste your time by recapping the many, many difficulties that 2020...
E-commerce app 21 Buttons exposes millions of users’ data
Researchers discovered that the popular e-commerce app 21 Buttons was exposing private data for 100s of influencers across Europe. Researchers from...
Apple iCloud Outage Caused Setup Issues and Account Activation Failures
On December 25th, Apple users started facing issues in iCloud sign-in in the early morning. The outage that lasted for...
UK Police Arrested Online Criminal Marketplace That Advertised Stolen Personal Credentials
UK police has arrested 21 malicious actors across the United Kingdom who were the part of nationwide cyber crackdown targeting...
Wynis – Audit Windows Security With Best Practice
Just a powershell scripts for auditing security with CIS BEST Practices Windows 10 and Window Server 2016 You just need...
Proxify – Swiss Army Knife Proxy Tool For HTTP/HTTPS Traffic Capture, Manipulation, And Replay On The Go
Swiss Army Knife Proxy for rapid deployments. Supports multiple operations such as request/response dump, filtering and manipulation via DSL language,...
Vermont Hospital confirmed the ransomware attack
The Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network has finally admitted that ransomware was behind the October attack. In October, threat...
Security Affairs newsletter Round 294
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for...
HackerOne announces first bug hunter to earn more than $2M in bug bounties
White hat hacker could be a profitable profession, Cosmin Iordache earned more than $2M reporting flaws through the bug bounty...
SolarWinds releases updated advisory for SUPERNOVA backdoor
SolarWinds released an updated advisory for the SuperNova malware discovered while investigating the recent supply chain attack. SolarWinds has released...
GoDaddy apologized for insensitive phishing email sent to its employees offering a fake bonus
GoDaddy made the headlines for an initiative that is dividing cybersecurity community, it sent phishing messages offering bonuses to its...
Kaspersky Lab and Yandex have detected malicious browser extensions
Kaspersky Lab and Yandex have identified malicious code in browser extensions. Through them, attackers could gain access to the account...
TruKno TTP based Threat Intelligence Platform
TruKno’s ThreatBoard is a platform that helps security professionals uncover the root causes behind emerging cyber-attacks, Improving proactive defense postures.....
Social-Analyzer – API And Web App For Analyzing And Finding A Person Profile Across +300 Social Media Websites (Detections Are Updated Regularly)
An API for analyzing & finding a person profile across +300 social media websites. It includes different string analysis and...
ApkLeaks – Scanning APK File For URIs, Endpoints And Secrets
Scanning APK file for URIs, endpoints & secrets.InstallationTo install apkLeaks, simply: $ git clone https://github.com/dwisiswant0/apkleaks$ cd apkleaks/$ pip install -r...
The Emotet botnet is back and hits 100K recipients per day
Emotet is back on Christmas Eve, cybercrime operators are sending out spam messages to deliver the infamous Trickbot Trojan. Emotet...
REvil gang threatens to release intimate pictures of celebs who are customers of The Hospital Group
REvil ransomware gang, aka Sodinokibi, hacked The Hospital Group and threatens to release before-and-after pictures of celebrity clients. The Hospital...
CrowdStrike releases free Azure tool to review assigned privileges
CrowdStrike released a free Azure security tool after it was notified by Microsoft of a failed attack leveraging compromised Azure...
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the COVID-19 research
The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has recently launched cyberattacks against at least two organizations involved in COVID-19 research. The...
URL Spoofing: Interview With Bug Bounty Hunter Narendra Bhati
On 24th December, E-Hacking News conducted an interesting interview with Mr. Narendra Bhati, a Bug Bounty Hunter/Ethical Hacker. He was...
Aura – Python Source Code Auditing And Static Analysis On A Large Scale
Aura is a static analysis framework developed as a response to the ever-increasing threat of malicious packages and vulnerable code...
