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Grab ransomware encodes documents in Safe Mode to impede security software

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A cybercriminal organization has been assaulting Windows clients with a half and half ransomware and information stealer program that scrambles machines while in Safe Mode so as to render endpoint insurance programs debatable.

Named Snatch, the malware "runs itself in a raised consents mode, sets vault keys that teaches Windows to run it following a Safe Mode reboot, at that point reboots the PC and starts encoding the circle while it's running in Safe Mode," as per a blog entry distributed for the current week by digital firm Sophos, whose Managed Threat Response (MTR) group and SophosLabs specialists have been dissecting the danger.

Constraining Safe Mode is a smart system in light of the fact that most programming, including security programs, don't run in that condition, clarifies blog entry creator Sophos head analyst Andrew Brandt.

The danger entertainer behind the malware, called Snatch Group, has been dynamic since summer 2018, focusing on yet the Safe Mode wind is an ongoing expansion. As indicated by Sophos' examination, the gathering's objectives have included associations situated in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Grab, which is named as a respect to the Guy Ritchie-coordinated film is modified in Go and pressed with the UPX for confusion, and influences Windows 7 through 10, both 32-and 64-piece renditions. Sophos alludes to Snatch as basically a ransomware program, however it contains extra segments, including an information stealer and a Cobalt Strike turn around shell. It likewise mishandles different genuine apparatuses and utilities – including Process Hacker, IObit Uninstaller, PowerTool and PsExec – for the most part to incapacitate AV items, the blog entry clarifies.

The ransomware utilizes OpenPGP for encryption, attaching a pseudorandom, five-character-long string to affected documents – each string one of a kind to the focused on association. Exploited people have been hit with ransomware requests that have changed somewhere in the range of $2,000 to $35,000, Sophos reports, refering to episodic data provided by Coveware, an organization that has taken care of a portion of the coercion exchanges.

Ordinarily, organizations are contaminated through beast power assaults against defenseless, uncovered administrations like Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), VNC and TeamViewer. One injured individual was a unidentified huge global organization that was undermined when Snatch Group entertainers utilized a savage power assault to take qualifications to a Microsoft Azure server, which was gotten to by means of RDP. From that point, the aggressors got to an area controller (DC) machine on a similar system, enabling them to perform observation on the organization's system, introduce reconnaissance programming on about 200 machines just as malware executables.

"We likewise watched them dump WMIC [Windows Management Instrumentation Command line] framework and client information, process records, and even the memory substance of the Windows LSASS [Local Security Authority Subsystem Service] administration, to a document… at that point transfer them to their C2 server" so as to study exploited people's system reports Sophos, crediting this vindictive action to an aggressor made apparatus called Update_Collector.exe. "We've additionally seen that the assailants set up one-off Windows administrations to organize explicit undertakings," including exfiltrating data to the Snatch Group's C2 server, the blog entry includes.

Bitdefender selected as Best Network Security Vendor of 2019

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The finish of 2019 accompanies incredible news: Bitdefender was chosen as Best Network Security Vendor of the Year in the eighth version of TahawulTech.com's Hot 50 Awards: https://www.tahawultech.com/industry/technology/enterprise-it-and-channel-leaders-honoured-at-hot-50-awards/

TahawulTech.com, some portion of CPI Media Group, is the conclusive IT content stage in the Middle East, bringing business pioneers and innovation leaders together to share their accounts of change.

The honor perceives the effective presentation of Network Traffic Security Analytics (NTSA) in 2019 Bitdefender's Enterprise Security Solutions portfolio. Bitdefender NTSA recognizes propelled dangers continuously and mechanizes ready triage to improve episode reaction. It applies AI/ML and conduct investigation to the system traffic streams and uses bits of knowledge from Bitdefender risk insight to consequently distinguish dangers for all elements associated with the venture organize.

Moreover, the ongoing advancements of NTSA empower a tight reconciliation with Bitdefender GravityZone Endpoint Security Solution Platform to give 360 degrees perceivability and experiences on dangers that may influence any gadget in the system. This incorporation handles a basic test that numerous associations are confronting: endpoint and system security working autonomously, with restricted or no coordination between them. The prompt advantages of the NTSA – GravityZone coordination include:

Full perceivability of all security episodes over the association, prompting quicker recognition of malevolent action

A bound together barrier arrangement covering every one of the components in the system, regardless of in the event that they bolster a security operator, dislike IoT, or are not under the administration of corporate IT, as BYOD

A self-ruling security stage that can recognize and quickly react to digital dangers that may develop in any obscure corner of the association's framework

To get familiar with Bitdefender NTSA and the incorporation with GravityZone please visit: https://www.bitdefender.com/business/enterprise-products/network-traffic-security-analytics.html

TikTok's Popularity Rises and Concerns Arise Over App's Censorship and Security

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The application is runned by Chinese organization ByteDance, which has been blamed for blue penciling clients for posting content about issues including the mistreatment of Uighur Muslims and Hong Kong.

Since its procurement of the application Musical.ly in 2017 and resulting merger the next year, TikTok has quickly gotten one of the most well known social stages on the planet, which makes this most recent anecdote about how Chinese governmental issues are impacting client oversight very concerning. In November, an American youngster, Feroza Aziz, posted an incendiary cosmetics instructional exercise that harmlessly starts with guidelines on the most proficient method to twist your eyelashes before transforming into a call for mindfulness about the abuse of Uighur Muslims by the Chinese government. Not long after her video started to increase a huge number of perspectives, her record was unceremoniously prohibited from the stage.

A representative for ByteDance, TikTok's parent organization, asserted it was over the substance of another of the high schooler's recordings wherein she makes reference to Osama container Laden. Aziz says the video being referred to was a joke, yet her arrangement about the situation of Uighur Muslims was intense. In the end, open investigation constrained the organization to react, giving a statement of regret on Wednesday, November 27, and clarifying their activities. In the interim, the US Congress is relied upon to before long present President Trump with proposed enactment calling for sanctions on Chinese authorities concerning human rights maltreatment against Uighurs.

This is a long way from TikTok's previously run-in with the allegation of control. Since its dispatch in 2018, the overall intrigue of TikTok has helped the application gotten one of the most rewarding new businesses in the market, with assessed benefits of ByteDance around $18 billion this year and the application (with its Chinese partner) downloaded more than one billion times around the world. Notwithstanding this worldwide group of spectators, increasingly more proof appears to demonstrate that TikTok isn't care for other internet based life destinations, which will in general control content significantly less. This past October, ByteDance tapped K&L Gates, a law office, to help in changing its balance approaches, which keep on being applied unevenly all through the stage. TikTok has likewise affirmed that before, it has shrouded the recordings of handicapped, fat, and LGBTQ makers, who it named as "especially defenseless" to tormenting.

"This is something that I need to wholeheartedly pressure: We don't control any substance dependent on political sensitivities," Vanessa Pappas, the senior supervisor of TikTok North America and Australia, told the New York Times. "Everything from the US advertise is driven from the US group. We have US control group, our head of trust and security is in the US, it's a US-drove activity. We don't do any sort of restriction in such manner and wouldn't regardless of whether we were inquired."

Back in September, the Guardian discovered records demonstrating that the application had once blue-penciled LGBTQ content in Turkey, in spite of the fact that there is no legitimate boycott against homosexuality in the nation. It found that extra degrees of oversight could be applied to the general control rules that as of now forbid certain touchy subjects like Tiananmen Square and Tibet. An additional degree of restriction proposed for progressively moderate areas could target content that could be viewed as indecent or lascivious, however the outlet found that Turkey's rules likewise precluded substance that highlighted individuals drinking liquor, non-Muslim strict figures, and analysis of the nation's leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. ByteDance told the Guardian it has since changed the control rules.

The worries around control have come into sharp concentration over the issue of the Hong King fights. In spite of the fact that Buzzfeed found no proof of TikTok smothering US-based clients from making content identifying with Hong Kong, Quartz announced that ByteDance had likewise propelled its own web index Toutiao Search, which favors results from China's state-supported outlets, slanting the updates on fights in Hong Kong. The outlet likewise found that the US adaptation of TikTok had not many recordings identified with the fights, which raised the doubt that the application might be suspending or erasing recordings of the showings. Or then again, as the Buzzfeed article places, it may very well be proof that American adolescents are not drawing in with another nation's political news. Notwithstanding, in the wake of yet more worries about TikTok and control, more recordings have surfaced by clients testing to check whether their recordings will be brought down or their records suspended. Notwithstanding Aziz's viral post about Uighur Muslims, others have additionally made their own recordings to spread mindfulness.

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DNA firm GEDmatch now operated by organization with police ties, security stresses surface

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GEDmatch has unobtrusively presented an "organization" with Verogen, an organization that has made innovation explicitly for use in the US National DNA Index System (NDIS), opening the entryway for a new rush of security concerns.

GEDmatch enables clients to transfer their DNA profiles - acquired through outsider sequencers, as the association doesn't perform testing itself - to contrast their outcomes and different profiles and conceivably find familial connections.

This week,GEDmatch said the arrangement, inked with the San Diego, Calif.- based legal genomics firm, will "guarantee continuous security insurances and improve the client experience for clients of its site."

As per Verogen CEO Brett Williams, the operational change will bring about a superior site and usefulness, of which there are as of now over 1.3 million client profiles and upwards of 1,000 new augmentations consistently.

"GEDmatch's terms of administration won't change as for the utilization, reasons for preparing, and exposures of client information. The site gives clients a decision to select in to enable law requirement to look transferred records as an instrument to unravel brutal violations," the organizations state.

In any case, as verified by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), not long ago the FBI affirmed Verogen's innovation for use in criminological research centers devoted to creating DNA profiles for the National DNA Index System (NDIS).

NDIS is the national degree of the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a program oversaw by the FBI and its criminal division. DNA profiles are contributed by government, state, and neighborhood criminological research facilities.

Verogen's affirmed MiSeq FGx Forensic Genomics System utilizes "Cutting edge Sequencing" (NGS) innovation to "significantly increment profiling proficiency and information recuperation from natural proof," as indicated by the organization.

The utilization of NDIS by law requirement upheld criminal criminological undertakings, when joined with the takeover of the administration of a gigantic DNA profiling administration, ought to be of concern.

While Verogen says everything will be "the same old thing," you really want to recall an ongoing case in which a US judge endorsed a warrant to an analyst, conceding them the ability to look through the full GEDmatch database during an examination. GEDmatch agreed inside 24 hours.

Warrants of these nature, supposed trawl look, render GEDmatch's "pick in" assent instrument for allowing law requirement access to profiles pointless.

Terms of administration to utilize GEDmatch have not changed, yet, however these elements together with the executives from an organization with close connections to the FBI could change the site from a support of a fortune trove of DNA usable by the police later on.

Our DNA isn't care for an installment card number or IP address. It can't be changed yet should never be viewed as permanent proof in criminal cases - as supported by the EFF in a criminal case in 2012, where DNA proof was utilized to prison a guiltless man.

It isn't only those that have transferred their profiles, either, that could be affected by late research, 60 percent of white US residents share DNA with GEDmatch's clients.

What the adjustment in the executives implies for clients and family associations the same is not yet clear. Notwithstanding, what is sure: giving over your DNA to private associations, and in this way a cut of your families', as well, ought not accompany a desire for protection. There is an absence of oversight and control, and with acquisitions, for example, these and a little change to terms of administration, a warrant, or an adjustment in neighborhood law, your DNA profile could wind up in a police database for all time guiltless of a wrongdoing or something else.

Cara Install DNSCrypt 2 di Ubuntu dan Linux Mint

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Analyze The Security Of Any Domain By Finding All the Information Possible - Domain Analyzer

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Domain analyzer is a security analysis tool which automatically discovers and reports information about the given domain. Its main purpose is to analyze domains in an unattended way.

How

Domain analyzer takes a domain name and finds information about it, such as DNS servers, mail servers, IP addresses, mails on Google, SPF information, etc. After all the information is stored and organized it scans the ports of every IP found using nmap and perform several other security checks. After the ports are found, it uses the tool crawler.py from @verovaleros, to spider the complete web page of all the web ports found. This tool has the option to download files and find open folders.

Current version is 0.8 and the main features are:

It creates a directory with all the information, including nmap output files.
It uses colors to remark important information on the console.
It detects some security problems like host name problems, unusual port numbers and zone transfers.
It is heavily tested and it is very robust against DNS configuration problems.
It uses nmap for active host detection, port scanning and version information (including nmap scripts).
It searches for SPF records information to find new hostnames or IP addresses.
It searches for reverse DNS names and compare them to the hostname.
It prints out the country of every IP address.
It creates a PDF file with results.
It automatically detects and analyze sub-domains!
It searches for domains emails.
It checks the 192 most common hostnames in the DNS servers.
It checks for Zone Transfer on every DNS server.
It finds the reverse names of the /24 network range of every IP address.
It finds active host using nmap complete set of techniques.
It scan ports using nmap (remember that for the SYN scan you need to need root).
It searches for host and port information using nmap.
It automatically detects web servers used.
It crawls every web server page using our crawler.py tool. See the description below.
It filters out hostnames based on their name.
It pseudo-randomly searches N domains in Google and automatically analyze them!
Uses CTRL-C to stop current analysis stage and continue working.
It can read an external file with domain names and try to find them on the domain.

Bonus features
@verovaleros developed a separate python web crawler called "crawler.py". Its main features are:

Crawl http and https web sites.
Crawl http and https web sites not using common ports.
Uses regular expressions to find 'href' and 'src' html tag. Also content links.
Identifies relative links.
Identifies domain related emails.
Identifies directory indexing.
Detects references to URLs like 'file:', 'feed=', 'mailto:', 'javascript:' and others.
Uses CTRL-C to stop current crawler stages and continue working.
Identifies file extensions (zip, swf, sql, rar, etc.)
Download files to a directory:
- Download every important file (images, documents, compressed files).
- Or download specified files types.
- Or download a predefined set of files (like 'document' files: .doc, .xls, .pdf, .odt, .gnumeric, etc.).
Maximum amount of links to crawl. A default value of 5000 URLs is set.
Follows redirections using HTML and JavaScript Location tag and HTTP response codes.

This extended edition has more features!

World-domination: You can automatically analyze the whole world! (if you have time)
Robin-hood: Although it is still in development, it will let you send automatically an email to the mails found during scan with the analysis information.
Robtex DNS: With this incredible function, every time you found a DNS servers with Zone Transfer, it will retrieve from the Robtex site other domains using that DNS server! It will automatically analyze them too! This can be a never ending test! Every vulnerable DNS server can be used by hundreds of domains, which in turn can be using other vulnerable DNS servers. BEWARE! Domains retrieved can be unrelated to the first one.

Examples

Find 10 random domains in the .gov domain and analyze them fully (including web crawling). If it finds some Zone Transfer, retrieve more domains using them from Robtex!!
```
domain_analyzer.py -d .gov -k 10 -b
```
(Very Quick and dirty) Find everything related with .edu.cn domain, store everything in directories. Do not search for active host, do not nmap scan them, do not reverse-dns the netblock, do not search for emails.
```
domain_analyzer.py -d edu.cn -b -o -g -a -n
```
Analyze the 386.edu.ru domain fully
```
domain_analyzer.py -d 386.edu.ru -b -o
```
(Pen tester mode). Analyze a domain fully. Do not find other domains. Print everything in a pdf file. Store everything on disk. When finished open Zenmap and show me the topology every host found at the same time!
```
domain_analyzer.py -d amigos.net -o -e
```

(Quick with web crawl only). Ignore everything with 'google' on it.

domain_analyzer.py -d mil.cn -b -o -g -a -n -v google -x '-O --reason --webxml --traceroute -sS -sV -sC -PN -n -v -p 80,4443'

(Everything) Crawl up to 100 URLs of this site including subdomains. Store output into a file and download every INTERESTING file found to disk.
```
crawler.py -u www.386.edu.ru -w -s -m 100 -f
```
(Quick and dirty) Crawl the site very quick. Do not download files. Store the output to a file.
```
crawler.py -u www.386.edu.ru -w -m 20
```
(If you want to analyze metadata later with lafoca). Verbose prints which extensions are being downloaded. Download only the set of archives corresponding to Documents (.doc, .docx, .ppt, .xls, .odt. etc.)
```
crawler.py -u ieeeexplore.ieee.org/otherfiles/ -d -v
```

Most of these features can be deactivated.

Screenshots

Example domain_analyzer.py -d .gov -k 10 -b

Installation
Just untar the .tar.gz file and copy the python files to the /usr/bin/ directory. Domain_analyzer needs to be run as root. The crawler can be run as a non-privileged user. If you want all the features (web crawler, pdf and colors), which is nice, also copy these files to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin

ansistrm.py
crawler.py
pyText2pdf.py

If you have any issues with the GeoIP database, please download it from its original source here. And install it in where your system needs it, usually at /opt/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat

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Bluetooth Security Testing Suite - BlueMaho v090417

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