A targeted cyber-espionage campaign has struck China’s higher education sector, using deceptive PDF-style shortcut files to install Cobalt Strike beacons on victim machines and open a path for remote ...

Blackpoint says Avalon uses Proton Drive, ISO images, LNK files, and MSBuild to disable ETW, steal credentials, and deploy CrownX ransomware.

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...

Monday hit like a cron job with anger issues. A busted auth path here, a repo-side faceplant there, some "patched-ish" thing already getting chewed on in the wild, and then the usual bonus round: ...

Learn essential Nmap commands for network scanning, port discovery, and OS detection. Complete guide with examples and a ...

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BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use. In March 2011 was released BackTrack 5 it ...

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