A Georgia man admitted his role as the ringleader of a large-scale drug trafficking operation responsible for producing and distributing up to 200,000 pills every month at the operation’s peak. Four out of his five co-conspirators have already pleaded guilty to similar crimes. Walker Forrester, a 25-year-old from Loganville, Georgia, pleaded guilty to Possession with […]
Nine members of a 13-member darkweb drug trafficking ring were imprisoned for their roles in the operation. The ring sold a variety of drugs through the darkweb where they accepted orders and received payment in bitcoin. They used German post offices and mailboxes located in the German-Dutch border region to deliver drugs to their customers […]
Google keeps pushing in its mission for broader encryption adoption
Police in Austria shut down a large-scale drug trafficking operation that conducted operations electronically. According to the police, the group purchased drugs on the darkweb and resold them to customers locally through messaging applications. The group used drops and never physically interacted with their customers. This week, the Vienna State Office of Criminal Investigation held […]
Maltrail is a malicious traffic detection system, utilizing publicly available (black)lists containing malicious and/or generally suspicious trails, along with static trails compiled from various AV reports and custom user-defined lists, where trail can be anything… The post maltrail v0.16.69 releases: Malicious traffic detection system appeared first on Penetration Testing.
Two residents of Melbourne, Australia, admitted they had used the dark web and the postal system to import drugs into Australia for distribution. The duo ran the drug trafficking operation from a two-bedroom apartment in Mernda, Melbourne. Steen McBeth and Jackson Li both 28 years old were arrested on October 27, 2017, following months of […]
A new malware dubbed “Messagetap” designed to monitor and record SMS traffic of certain phone numbers, IMSI numbers, and based on keywords for subsequent theft. The new malware was developed by the Chinese APT41 hacker group to deploy in the telecommunications network. The malware was discovered by FireEye during an investigation at a telecommunications network […]
Mozilla publishes FAQ reports that outline its implementation plans for DNS-over-HTTPS. Mozilla has today clarified that “no funds are being exchanged for DNS Cloudflare requests” as part of the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) function currently being slowly switched on to Firefox users in the United States. The app developer has recently been heavily criticized for its Cloudflare […]
Virtual private network services (VPN) company NordVPN has revealed a hacking incident that occurred last year. According to web application security experts, in March 2018 a threat actor broke into one of the company’s servers, located in Finland, exposing some data on the browsing habits of its customers. NordVPN states that the server did not […]
Researchers from CERT/CC discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Satcom terminal Cobham EXPLORER 710 that affects both firmware and device. The vulnerabilities allow hackers to perform several attacks such as intercept the traffic, remotely execute the command, implant and hide a backdoor, DoS Attack, exfiltrate the sensitive data and more Cobham EXPLORER 710 is a satellite telecommunication […]
A new trend seems to have emerged among hackers. A few days ago network security experts reported that some electronic traffic signs placed around a construction on one of the major avenues at Brooklyn, New York, were altered to show somehow aggressive messages against drivers. Apparently, these incidents are still present. As Jalopnik digital media […]
Two user favorite browsers are commonly known to be Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Exploiting their demand, a Russian group by the handle of Turla has been attempting to track encrypted traffic of both browsers. With targets identified in Russia and Belarus; they do so by attacking the systems through a remote access trojan (RAT) […]
Turla APT threat actors distribute a new malware called Reductor, a successor of COMpfun to compromise the TLS encrypted web traffic and infect the targeted network. Reductor malware has exclusive RAT functionality with the ability to such as uploading, downloading, and executing files on victims’ networks by manipulating digital certificates. Researchers believe that the malware […]
WordPress plugins are back in the list of positive results for cybercriminals. These attacks explicitly use plugins to perform their malicious actions. In a newly discovered campaign, attackers use some WordPress plugins to divert traffic from websites. Some vulnerabilities in several WordPress plugins under Exploit Reportedly, WordFence researchers have noticed an ongoing attack campaign on […]
Bengaluru is one of the cities where traffic jams are a serious issue. To combat the issue, six modern traffic signals have been installed featuring Dynamic Signalling technology and will be powered by Google Maps. The traffic signals will use the technology to monitor the volume and speed of traffic to dynamically operate traffic signals. […]
A Stoneham man was charged in federal court in Boston today in connection with drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl. Alexis Baez, 52, was charged in an Information with three counts of distribution of, and possession with intent to distribute, fentanyl; two counts of distribution of, and possession with intent to distribute, more than 40 grams […]
Ostinato is a packet generator and network traffic generator with a friendly GUI. Also a powerful Python API for network test automation. Craft and send packets of several streams with different protocols at different rates. Think of it as “Wireshark in Reverse”. Ostinato aims to provide a traffic generator and network testing tool for every […]
The Spanish authorities have stated that the legislation currently in existence in the European community is inadequate and insufficient to prevent the use of Bitcoin ATMs in order to launder money, as mentioned by digital forensics specialists. Various media report that the Spanish government has reached this conclusion after investigating the legal status of cryptocurrency […]
Everyone would have well known with capturing network packets using analyzer tools. But very few have known with capturing with USB packets. We are talking about USB sniffer which is quite often used in ethical hacking courses offered by International Institute of Cyber Security . USB sniffers capture and shows the packets which are transferring. […]
Google Maps is probably the biggest service of its kind that many people use on a daily basis. Whether you want to search for nearby places, or use the app for navigation, it works buttery smooth. Google Maps is the first solution that most people resort to. Mostly, it’s because of the fact that the […]
A script for extracting network metadata and fingerprints such as JA3 and HASSH from packet capture files (pcap) or live network traffic. The main use-case is for monitoring honeypots, but you can also use it for other use cases such as network forensic analysis. fatt works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Note that fatt uses […]