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Joff Thyer // ADVISORY: The techniques and tools referenced within this blog post may be outdated and do not apply to current situations. However, there is still potential for this blog entry to be used as an opportunity to learn and to possibly update or integrate into modern tools and techniques. When performing a penetration of test of organizations with Windows desktops, many testers will now resort to using tools like Veil’s Powershell Empire in order to inject shellcode directly into memory. Without doubt, this is a fantastic technique as it avoids writing to disk and running headlong into…
OpenAI’s “Study together” mode has been spotted in the wild, and it could help students prepare for exams directly from ChatGPT. We don’t have the details yet, but references to ChatGPT Study Mode were first spotted in May, and testers noticed it widely earlier today. The Study together mode, which doesn’t work right now, might allow students to either invite their friends to study on ChatGPT or have the AI act as a companion. We just don’t know how it works yet, but it could disrupt the education niche. Study together isn’t the only new feature coming to ChatGPT. ChatGPT…
All software comes with security holes. By using open source to the extent possible, organizations stand the best chance of keeping malicious hackers at bay. That’s according to Jeremy Wilson, chief technology officer for the North America public sector at EDB. “There always will be, to some degree, security concerns. The great thing about open source is, you’ve got a worldwide community, a worldwide audience, that’s inspecting the source code,” Wilson during Federal News Network’s Industry Exchange Data 2025. And that inspection and improvement cycle is nonstop, he pointed out. “It goes on around the clock. You’ve got, typically,…
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape 10 Things I Hate About Attribution: RomCom vs. TransferLoader macOS NimDoor | DPRK Threat Actors Target Web3 and Crypto Platforms with Nim-Based Malware Warning Against Distribution of Malware Disguised as Research Papers (Kimsuky Group) Dissecting Kimsuky’s Attacks on South Korea: In-Depth Analysis of GitHub-Based Malicious Infrastructure Houken seeking a path by living on the edge with zero-days FoxyWallet: 40+ Malicious Firefox Extensions Exposed Addressing malware family concept drift with triplet autoencoder RawMal-TF: Raw Malware Dataset Labeled by Type and Family Detecting…
It’s tough to keep tabs on the ever-changing crypto gaming space, thanks to the constant flow of news: everything from big game launches and fun degen experiments to token price swings and occasional project collapses. It’s a lot to follow.Luckily, we’re plugged in at Decrypt’s GG. We cover the biggest happenings throughout the week, and then this weekly roundup provides a quick way to catch up, as well as find a bunch of other little bits of news from throughout the week.Top storiesReaper Actual revealed: Game industry veteran John Smedley has launched Distinct Possibility Studios with a new blockchain-integrated first-person…
There is no question that vulnerability scanning and patch management remain necessary, but they are clearly no longer sufficient The post We Are Losing the Scan/Patch Battle appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Joff Thyer // ADVISORY: The techniques and tools referenced within this blog post may be outdated and do not apply to current situations. However, there is still potential for this blog entry to be used as an opportunity to learn and to possibly update or integrate into modern tools and techniques. Many of us in the penetration testing community are used to scenarios whereby we land a targeted phishing campaign within a Windows enterprise environment and have that wonderful access into the world of Windows command line networking tools. You get your shell and before you know it, you…
John Strand // There have been quite a few articles lately on how compliance standard X or Y is broken. Unfortunately, this often leads to blaming the nameless and faceless people behind the standards. It is easy to simply say they are dullards and not fit to be setting any agenda relating to computer security. Dullards do what Dullards do. While this may be true, there is a bit more to it than that. Further, if we look at how these standards get watered down, there is a lot we can learn. Basically, let’s talk about common mistakes when it comes to creating and adhering to compliance frameworks. As…
The AI Act’s rules will be implemented according to the schedule included in the legislation, Reuters reported Friday, citing comments at a press conference by Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier. “I’ve seen, indeed, a lot of reporting, a lot of letters and a lot of things being said on the AI Act,” Regnier said, according to the report. “Let me be as clear as possible, there is no stop the clock. There is no grace period. There is no pause.” The Commission will adhere to the deadlines in the AI Act, including the August 2025 implementation of obligations for general-purpose AI…