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INDICATORS OF ATTACK (IOA) VS INDICATORS OF COMPROMISE (IOC)

Leave a Comment / BLOG, CYBER SECURITY, P-Testing / D-Forensics, Tech Support / By Sara Ahmed

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? The threat level has never been higher for organizations charged with protecting valuable data. In fact, as recent headlines will attest, no company or agency is completely immune to targeted attacks by persistent, skilled adversaries. The unprecedented success of these attacks against large and well-equipped organizations around the world has led manysecurity …

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Build Your Cracking Skills

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First of all download all the required software: Sentry MBA – basic and the best tool for cracking. SQLi Dumper – a most popular tool for SQLi Injection. Configs – configuration (.ini) files for Sentry MBA. hashcat – the best and most advanced software for cracking hashes. Combolists – some public and semi-private combolists to …

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Google Dorking in 2023

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Google Dorking, also known as Google hacking, is a powerful technique used by security researchers and ethical hackers to uncover sensitive information and vulnerabilities on the web. It involves crafting specific Google search queries that reveal information that is not meant to be publicly accessible. This powerful tool is a valuable asset to anyone who …

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Zero-Click Attacks against Smartphones

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The rapid increasing use of smartphones for communications, such as banking and social networking, has made them an attractive target for cyber criminals. These malicious actors used social engineering to lure victims into clicking a malicious link or pressing a button, thereby causing the malware to execute, proliferate and compromise the victim’s smartphone successfully. However, …

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How to Investigate Twitter Trends

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Trending list on Twitter seems to be a major criterion for the most important topics in circulation. Many journalists use Twitter to make editorial determinations, catering their coverage to what is perceived as popular – and analysis of “semantic similarity” between news reports has even revealed a link between what reporters see on their own …

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Password Cracking | Beginners

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Password Hashes At the fundamental level, a password is like a key that fits into and unlocks a particular lock. Only you have the key, but anyone can come up and inspect the lock. With a mechanical lock, nobody can see the internal functions of the lock without specialized tools like lock picks. If someone …

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Malware Analysis Basics | Tools

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This Post covers free tools that can be used for basic malware analysis to identify if a machine has been infected with malware. You can use these tools to extract IOCs to share with the community or to include in an Incident Response report in a professional setting. We will start with built in tools …

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USB Drive Forensic Analysis with Kali Linux

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The introduction story of the challenge was that a company was most probably blackmailed by an employee, who is suspected to have stored relevant data on an USB drive. USB drives can often hold key evidence in an investigation phase. The goal is to analyze and investigate the drive to find out if there is …

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Phone Extraction | Technical Perspective

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General explanation of mobile phone extraction, Mobile Phone Extraction technologies, known also as mobile forensics, entails the physical connection of the mobile device that is to be analysed and a device that extracts, analyses and presents the data contained on the phone. Whilst forensics experts, hackers and those selling spyware may be able to access …

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How they do Cyber Espionage activity using USB Devices

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Initial infection vector to performs cyber espionage activity, currently being tracked as UNC4191, which leverages USB devices as an initial infection vector, and concentrates on the Philippines. These operations have affected various public and private sector entities primarily in Southeast Asia and extending to the U.S., Europe, and the APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan) region. …

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