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February 12, 2025

February 12, 2025

February 12, 2025

Cyberpunk future is weird

Russian criminal organizations have begun using FPV drones to kill their business rivals, the first recorded instance of such a thing. pic.twitter.com/FC70r92tJL

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) February 11, 2025


Open Firmware Reverse Analysis Konsole: binary analysis and modification platform

Open Firmware Reverse Analysis (OFRAK) supports a range of embedded firmware file formats beyond userspace executables


Windows Exploitation Tricks: Trapping Virtual Memory Access (2025 Update) by @tiraniddo https://t.co/jByitlBGiU

— Alex Plaskett (@alexjplaskett) February 11, 2025


To date, I have published 14 articles (988 pages) with the strict goal of helping the cybersecurity community.

These articles are categorized into two series which are ERS (Exploiting Reversing Series), which is the current and ongoing series, and MAS (Malware Analysis Series),… pic.twitter.com/I8ToTfBIgd

— Alexandre Borges (@ale_sp_brazil) February 11, 2025


#KGB measure "D" signified covert search.

The document below is a KGB report on their covert search of the hotel room of a U.S. citizen visiting Lithuania in September 1978. pic.twitter.com/ietnXgMSOk

— Filip Kovacevic (@ChekistMonitor) February 11, 2025


https://t.co/IDgGHJ9wLJ#APT pic.twitter.com/6jn3BcGOEJ

— 2ero (@BaoshengbinCumt) February 11, 2025

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Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282) #IvantiConnectSecure #ExploitationWalkthrough #RemoteCodeExecution #VulnerabilityAnalysis #ExploitationTechniques https://t.co/vEsH9FAPcH

— reverseame (@reverseame) February 11, 2025


Good open source overview of the Rwanda-backed M23 takeover of the city Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. https://t.co/CBqgqJfRkP pic.twitter.com/F5OdOSgZ58

— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) February 11, 2025

M23 Rebels Consolidate Control over Key City in DR Congo - bellingcat

After days of clashes the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have taken greater control of Goma including securing the international airport.


Today we are announcing a partnership with Obscura VPN, a newly launched two-party VPN service that uses our WireGuard VPN servers as its “exit hop”.

Read more here: https://t.co/BxWn9hOuh5

— Mullvad.net (@mullvadnet) February 11, 2025


A Russian service used to facilitate ransomware attacks by #LockBit hackers has been sanctioned by U.S. authorities.

https://t.co/eNjDpkOsnx

— The Record From Recorded Future News (@TheRecord_Media) February 11, 2025


🚨 EclecticIQ analysts uncovered a Sandworm #cyber espionage campaign targeting Ukrainian Windows users. Attackers used trojanized #Microsoft KMS activation tools to deploy the BACKORDER loader and Dark Crystal RAT, enabling data theft and espionage. https://t.co/9avFRKv2I5 pic.twitter.com/PTDz0UMJKL

— Arda Büyükkaya (@WhichbufferArda) February 11, 2025


#Kernel_Security
"SysBumps: Exploiting Speculative Execution in System Calls for Breaking KASLR in macOS for Apple Silicon", 2024.
]-> https://t.co/0TBQDVOtcm

— Mr. OS (@ksg93rd) February 11, 2025


Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed North Korean state actor Emerald Sleet (also known as Kimsuky and VELVET CHOLLIMA) using a new tactic: tricking targets into running PowerShell as an administrator and then pasting and running code provided by the threat actor. pic.twitter.com/PTcxwhBhGn

— Microsoft Threat Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) February 11, 2025


You want to dump the physical memory of a Linux system but can't load a kernel driver or use /proc/kcore? Try Lemon, a CO-RE eBPF program that dumps the entire physical memory in LiME format. Developed by Sudharsun Lakshmi Narasimhan and me at @s3eurecomhttps://t.co/d3nsGLmio7

— Andrea Oliveri (@IridiumXOR) February 11, 2025


New Article: "Approaching the Summit on Linux Persistence"🐧

Topics covered:

🔹Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) Backdoors
🔹Abusing pam_exec
🔹Malicious DPKG & RPM Packages
🔹Docker Container Persistence

🔗PANIX: https://t.co/ohTz7xkdoh
📖Blog: https://t.co/3K0thW3j4p

— Ruben Groenewoud (@RFGroenewoud) February 11, 2025


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