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Developing Ethical Hacking Tools with Python

This course will teach how to develop your own ethical hacking tools in Python and automate your security assessment processes. Learn how to get an edge in cyber by building new skills using Python to become more efficient and effective in your role as an ethical hacking penetration tester.

Understanding How Hackers Recon

Cyber-attacks keep increasing and evolving but, regardless of the degree of complexity used by hackers to gain access, get a foothold, cloak their malware, execute their payload or exfiltrate data, their attack will begin with reconnaissance. They will do their utmost to uncover exposed assets and ...

Ukrainian CERT Warns Citizens of Phishing Attacks Using Compromised Accounts

Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warned of new phishing attacks aimed at its citizens by leveraging compromised email accounts belonging to three different Indian entities with the goal of compromising their inboxes and stealing sensitive information. The agency cautioned that ...

SharkBot Banking Malware Spreading via Fake Android Antivirus App on Google Play Store

The threat actor behind a nascent Android banking trojan named SharkBot has managed to evade Google Play Store security barriers by masquerading as an antivirus app. SharkBot, like its malware counterparts TeaBot, FluBot, and Oscorp (UBEL), belongs to a category of financial trojans capable of ...

2 New Mozilla Firefox 0-Day Bugs Under Active Attack — Patch Your Browser ASAP!

Mozilla has pushed out-of-band software updates to its Firefox web browser to contain two high-impact security vulnerabilities, both of which it says are being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486, the zero-day flaws have been described as use-after-free ...

New Linux Kernel cgroups Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Escape Container

Details have emerged about a now-patched high-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could potentially be abused to escape a container in order to execute arbitrary commands on the container host. The shortcoming resides in a Linux kernel feature called control groups, also referred to as ...

Developing Ethical Hacking Tools with Python

This course will teach how to develop your own ethical hacking tools in Python and automate your security assessment processes. Learn how to get an edge in cyber by building new skills using Python to become more efficient and effective in your role as an ethical hacking penetration tester.