Introduction Fileless malware attack is on the rise, and it’s one of the foremost important digital infiltration threats to companies, according to Symantec’s 2019 Internet Security Threat Report. The magnitude of this threat is usually seen within the Report’s finding that malicious PowerShell scripts — one of the key components of fileless malware attacks — increased quite 1,000 percent in 2018 and accounted for 89...
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The OIC-CERT Drill An annual event for the OIC-CERT member teams with the objectives to: Test the communication capabilities of the members’ point of contacts. Check the processes and procedures in managing contingencies. Test the technical competencies of participating teams. Simulate cross border cooperation in mitigating information security incidents. The Arab Regional Cyber Drill An annual event organized by ITU-ARCC to expose the participants from...
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The proliferation of technology has paved way for us to consume various services from ordering food online, to communicating with our loved once via social media. As all of the services we access via the internet are usually separate entities, we need to provide password for every website. Although many sites allows us to access their services using a common authentication mechanism like OAuth but...
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Google has patched a major security bug impacting the Gmail and G Suite email servers. The bug could have allowed a threat actor to send spoofed emails mimicking any Gmail or G Suite customer. The issue was identified and reported to Google in April, though the search giant took over four months in mitigation and ultimately released a patch on Wednesday (19th August). According to...
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A phishing campaign is a kind of scam ran through email and intended to snip personal information from victims. Phishing basically depend on a vulnerability we can never fully abolish- human mistakes. The theme of the attack or the lure to attract human errors to commit the mistake depends on surroundings. For example, APWG or Anti Phishing Working Group Q1 2020 report states that cybercriminals...
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