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Social Manipulation as a Service – When the Bots on Twitter get their Check marks
Written by Sean KalinichWhen I started DecryptedTech it was to counter all the crap marketing I saw from component makers. I wanted to prove people with a clean…Written on Monday, 04 March 2024 16:17 in Editorials Read 1180 times Read more...
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To Release or not to Release a PoC or OST That is the Question
Written by Sean KalinichThere is (and always has been) a debate about the ethics and impact of the release of Proof-of-Concept Exploit for an identified vulnerability and Open-Source…Written on Monday, 26 February 2024 13:05 in Security Talk Read 642 times Read more...
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There was an Important Lesson Learned in the LockBit Takedown and it was Not About Threat Groups
Written by Sean KalinichIn what could be called a fantastic move, global law enforcement agencies attacked and took down LockBit’s infrastructure. The day of the event was filled…Written on Thursday, 22 February 2024 12:20 in Security Talk Read 582 times Read more...
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NetSPI’s Offensive Security Offering Leverages Subject Matter Experts to Enhance Pen Testing
Written by Sean KalinichBlack Hat 2023 Las Vegas. The term offensive security has always been an interesting one for me. On the surface is brings to mind reaching…Written on Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:05 in Security Talk Read 1837 times Read more...
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Black Kite Looks to Offer a Better View of Risk in a Rapidly Changing Threat Landscape
Written by Sean KalinichBlack Hat 2023 – Las Vegas. Risk is an interesting subject and has many different meanings to many different people. For the most part Risk…Written on Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:56 in Security Talk Read 1329 times Read more...
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Microsoft Finally Reveals how they Believe a Consumer Signing Key was Stollen
Written by Sean KalinichIn May of 2023 a few sensitive accounts reported to Microsoft that their environments appeared to be compromised. Due to the nature of these accounts,…Written on Thursday, 07 September 2023 14:40 in Security Talk Read 1769 times Read more...
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Mandiant Releases a Detailed Look at the Campaign Targeting Barracuda Email Security Gateways, I Take a Look at What this all Might Mean
Written by Sean KalinichThe recent attack that leveraged a 0-Day vulnerability to compromise a number of Barracuda Email Security Gateway appliances (physical and virtual, but not cloud) was…Written on Wednesday, 30 August 2023 16:09 in Security Talk Read 1536 times Read more...
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Threat Groups Return to Targeting Developers in Recent Software Supply Chain Attacks
Written by Sean KalinichThere is a topic of conversation that really needs to be talked about in the open. It is the danger of developer systems (personal and…Written on Wednesday, 30 August 2023 13:29 in Security Talk Read 1546 times Read more...
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Leaked Data from Duolingo incident Shows US is most Impacted
Written by Sean KalinichDuolingo, is a language learning site (not to be confused with an LLM) and has a very large base of users. The site is a…Written on Tuesday, 29 August 2023 19:12 in Security Talk Read 1991 times Read more...
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Friday, 28 July 2023 14:58
BreachForums finds themselves the Victim of a Data Breach and Data Leak
Written by Sean Kalinich
Using a famous idiom, it looks like the shoe is on the other foot as BreachForums has found themselves the victim of a data breach and release of data. The breach took place in November of 2022 and culminated with…
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Monday, 24 July 2023 15:07
Open-Source Supply Chain Attack used in Campaign Targeting Banks
Written by Sean Kalinich
Supply chain attacks are all the rage right now (although certainly not new). These attacks are part of what appears to be a multi-pronged shift in the threat landscape. While attacks on the endpoint and users are still happening, we…
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Friday, 21 July 2023 17:50
Recently Stolen Microsoft Account Signing Keys can be used to Abuse other Microsoft Identification Related Services
Written by Sean Kalinich
After a recent attack on Federal Civilian Execute Branch (FCEB) Agencies by an APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) group currently suspected of being a nation-state group from China, (whew that was a long start), It has come to the attention of…
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Tuesday, 18 July 2023 13:30
Mystery still Surrounds theft of MSA signing Key in recent FCEB Breaches
Written by Sean Kalinich
Last week Microsoft, the FBI, and CISA made disclosed several attacks on Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies and other targets of a campaign that appeared to be driven by a new threat group out of China. The attack we detected…
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Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:57
BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit Source Coe Leaked Allowing Researchers and Threat Groups Alike to Review the Code
Written by Sean Kalinich
The UEFI (Unified Extensible Framework Interface) was the replacement for the old BIOS (Basic Input Output System). It was intended as an improvement to the underlying systems on a motherboard (also called mainboard) the motherboard controls communication between all components…
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Thursday, 13 July 2023 12:37
US Federal Civilian Executive Branch Agency’s Email Compromised by new Chinese APT Group
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that an unnamed FCEB agency had their Outlook Web Access (Exchange Online) environment compromised by a new threat group that is current being attributed to China. The attack and the group were disclosed by CISA and the FBI.…
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Thursday, 13 July 2023 11:36
Security Researchers are Still on Attacker Radar as new “POC” is Found to have Malware Inside
Written by Sean Kalinich
If I have said it once, I have said it a thousand times; attackers are cunning. The adage that attackers are lazy has nothing to do with strategic, tactical, or technical knowledge. They understand the landscape and, in many cases,…
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Tuesday, 11 July 2023 17:33
Policy Loopholes in Microsoft Windows used to Allow Forged Kernel-Mode Driver Signatures
Written by Sean Kalinich
Diver Signing requirements in Windows is a feature that is intended to help prevent the Windows Operating system from being compromised through malicious software posing as legitimate drivers. The policy was implemented way back in early versions of the 64-bit…
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Monday, 10 July 2023 12:08
Vishing Efforts in South Korea get a Boost from new “Letscall” Malware
Written by Sean Kalinich
Social engineering efforts via voice calls (Vishing) is nothing new. The use of phone calls for malicious activity is pretty old and include such popular scams as extended car warranties, IRS collection attempts, and the ever popular “there is a…
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Monday, 10 July 2023 10:52
Progress Software’s MOVEit has yet another Unauthenticated SQL Injection Flaw
Written by Sean Kalinich
Last week Progress Software, the company behind MOVEit file transfer software, announced another SQL injection flaw had been identified and patched. This flaw is just the latest in a series of vulnerabilities that have been identified in the application after…
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Thursday, 06 July 2023 12:40
Let’s Talk a Minute About Meta’s Threads and the Data it Wants
Written by Sean Kalinich
Yesterday (July 5, 2023) Social Networking Giant, Meta launched their competitor to Twitter. This new app is a companion app to Instagram called threads. Ironically, Twitter had a lot of buzz about the new app including from people that routinely…
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Wednesday, 05 July 2023 13:58
NPM is back in the news as Node.js is found to be open to a Manifest Confusion Attack
Written by Sean Kalinich
It has been a few days since we talked about NPM and node.js. The popular repository has been taking a bit of a beating in recent months as attackers, hacktivists, and others seek to compromise their packages as part of…
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Wednesday, 05 July 2023 12:17
Microsoft Teams Flaw Leveraged by New Red Team Tool to Push Malware
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is nothing like an unresolved security flaw in a major product. Especially when the flaw is one that the developer knows about but does not consider important enough to fix in a timely manner. If the flaw is in…
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Tuesday, 27 June 2023 14:11
New Process Injection Method Found that can Potentially Avoid EDR Detection
Written by Sean Kalinich
EDR, XDR, and MDR are acronyms that are well known to most organizations. The operative letters here are DR which stands for Detection and Response. The E, X, and M stand for Endpoint, E(x)tended, and Managed respectively. Each one of…
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Friday, 23 June 2023 12:29
Flaws in Microsoft Teams External Tenant Handling Allow for Easy Malware Distribution
Written by Sean Kalinich
You have to love Microsoft Teams. Teams is the Frankenstein Monster of Microsoft’s Lync, which then became Skype for Business, and then morphed into the problematic service we now know as Teams. The journey from Lync to Teams has been…
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Thursday, 22 June 2023 10:39
Apple Patches Flaw that Allowed for Spyware Which Russia Blamed on the US
Written by Sean Kalinich
Remember the iMessage flaw that allowed for a zero click installation of malware? You know, the one that was discovered by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky which was allegedly targeting Russian Apple devices? The one that Russia said was a US…
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