Security researchers from Check Point Threat Intelligence Team have discovered the comeback of an APT (advanced persistent threat) surveillance group targeting institutions across the Middle East, specifically the Palestinian Authority. The attack, dubbed « Big Bang, » begins with a phishing email sent to targeted victims that includes an attachment of a self-extracting archive containing two


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Avira lance une version améliorée d’Avira Password Manager. Le chiffrement des notes, un meilleur indicateur de la complexité des mots de passe, l’accessibilité améliorée dans le cloud et la nouvelle interface utilisateur renforcent la sécurité du compte et permettent à tous les utilisateurs d’y accéder plus facilement.

Digitally signed malware has become much more common in recent years to mask malicious intentions. Security researchers have discovered a new malware campaign misusing stolen valid digital certificates from Taiwanese tech-companies, including D-Link, to sign their malware and making them look like legitimate applications. As you may know, digital certificates issued by a trusted certificate


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Besides Timehop, another data breach was discovered last week that affects users of one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, DomainFactory, owned by GoDaddy. The breach initially happened back in last January this year and just emerged last Tuesday when an unknown attacker himself posted a breach note on the DomainFactory support forum. It turns out that the attacker breached


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And the hacks just keep on coming. Timehop social media app has been hit by a major data breach on July 4th that compromised the personal data of its more than 21 million users. Timehop is a simple social media app that collects your old photos and posts from your iPhone, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Foursquare and acts as a digital time machine to help you find—what you were doing on


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Vous le savez surement, l’informatique est un secteur très actif qui embauche énormément. Aussi, penchons nous sur un cas d’étude réel de l’emploi, à savoir celui des bases de données.

NetBScanner – NetBIOS Network Scanner

NetBScanner is a NetBIOS network scanner tool that scans all computers in the IP addresses range you choose, using the NetBIOS protocol.

For every computer located by this NetBIOS scanner, the following information is displayed:

  • IP Address
  • Computer Name
  • Workgroup or Domain
  • MAC Address
  • Network adapter manufacturer (from MAC address).

NetBScanner also shows whether a computer is a Master Browser.

Read the rest of NetBScanner – NetBIOS Network Scanner now! Only available at Darknet.

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There’s no doubt that PirateBay (TPB) is one of the world’s most famous and widely used torrent download website, but it has again been caught mining cryptocurrency by using its visitors’ CPU processing power. This is the second time when The Pirate Bay has been caught mining digital coins. In September last year, PirateBay was found quietly running CoinHive JavaScript code to mine Monero


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Hacker himself got hacked. It turns out that most samples of the LokiBot malware being distributed in the wild are modified versions of the original sample, a security researcher has learned. Targeting users since 2015, LokiBot is a password and cryptocoin-wallet stealer that can harvest credentials from a variety of popular web browsers, FTP, poker and email clients, as well as IT


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Faille de sécurité, référencement abusif ou simple mauvais paramétrage de confidentialité ? Difficile pour l’heure (…)
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