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Alert: New DLL Variant Used For Malicious Code Execution

| | attack prevention, code execution, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity News, dll, Malware, Mitigation Strategies, Network Security, parent process analysis, Privilege Escalation, proof of concept, search order hijacking, system hardening, threat actors, Windows 10, Windows 11, WinSxS folder
Recent research findings have brought to light a new DLL variant pertaining to search order hijacking techniques. As per recent reports, this dynamic link library variant could potentially be used by threat ...
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Are Proof-of-Concepts Benefiting Cybercriminals?   

| | application vulnerabilities, cybercriminals, proof of concept, zero-day
Public proof-of-concepts (POCs) may be helping cybercriminals more than the organizations they were designed to protect. Sophos’ Active Adversary Playbook 2022 provides an in-depth analysis of cyberattacker behavior, tactics and tools from ...
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Red Teams and the Value of Open Source PoC Exploits

| | (ISC)², CVE, CWE, Exploits and vulnerabilities, open source, proof of concept, Security Congress
Red Teams are a necessary part of a good cybersecurity program. The Red Team is offensive security, explained Richard Tychansky, a security researcher speaking at (ISC)2 Security Congress. During the Red Team ...
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6 Best Practices to Make the Most of Your Sandbox Proof of Concept

| | false positives, Network Security, proof of concept, sandbox
Any time you incorporate a major new component—such as a sandbox platform—into your security ecosystem, it’s important to do a rigorous, side-by-side evaluation of competing products to determine the best choice for ...
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Researchers aim to befuddle cybercriminals with defensive WWII fighter pilot trick

Researchers aim to befuddle cybercriminals with defensive WWII fighter pilot trick

| | chaff bugs, decoy bugs, Industry News, PoC, proof of concept, radar, WWII
Most ethical hackers prefer to lend their services to eliminate potentially harmful bugs. But one team of white hats wants to test the opposite approach to thwarting bad actors – by wasting ...
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Allowing Vendors VPN access during Product Evaluation

Allowing Vendors VPN access during Product Evaluation

| | AI, evaluation, Infosec, machine learning, mechanical turk, PoC, proof of concept, security, vendor selection, VPN
For many prospective buyers of the latest generation of network threat detection technologies it may appear ironic that these AI-driven learning systems require so much manual tuning and external monitoring by vendors ...
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