#Crowdstrike #CoSoSec

pro-Iranian hacktivist group Handala have stated on Twitter that they impersonated CrowdStrike in emails to Israeli companies to distribute the data wiper - emails include a PDF that contains further instructions on running the fake update, as well as a link to download a malicious ZIP archive from a file hosting service. This zip file contains an executable named 'Crowdstrike.exe.'

NCSC also warned that it observed an increase in phishing msgs

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/major-it-outage

@corlin ironically mulvard's last blog post is

Fourth Infrastructure audit completed by Cure53

We asked Cure53 to focus solely on one OpenVPN and one WireGuard server.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/fourth-infrastructure-audit-completed-by-cure53

😆😂😂

@corlin yeah most VPN providers do prefer wireguard these days

easiest option for users is to use a protocol such as ShadowSocks or Tor....that's the recommended advice

Port scanning can be partially mitigated on Linux desktops using network namespaces

https://github.com/slingamn/namespaced-openvpn

I'm using Mulvard VPN wireguard also

@corlin yup

vulnerability affects OpenVPN, WireGuard, and OpenConnect running on Linux or FreeBSD. FreeBSD is less vulnerable

"We found that Linux/Netfilter + (OpenVPN and WireGuard), which a large fraction of VPN services use, has the highest susceptibility to these attacks regardless of client platform (PC, Android, and iOS)"

and Citizen Lab, which often conducts research focusing on online privacy and security, has published a summary

https://citizenlab.ca/2024/07/vulnerabilities-in-vpns-paper-presented-at-the-privacy-enhancing-technologies-symposium-2024/

#VPN #CoSoSec

team of researchers warns that VPNs are affected by a vulnerability that can be exploited to launch man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, enabling threat actors to intercept and redirect traffic

attack technique, named Port Shadow and tracked as CVE-2021-3773, builds on research first presented by Benjamin Mixon-Baca and Jedidiah R. Crandall back in 2021

https://www.breakpointingbad.com/2021/09/08/Port-Shadows-via-Network-Alchemy.html

paper detailing the research was published this week

(PDF URL)

https://petsymposium.org/popets/2024/popets-2024-0070.pdf

@th3j35t3r *sigh*

Some just wanna be in an echo chamber

Sad

@th3j35t3r kleenex time 😆

increasing power of Generative AI + outdated media literacy skills has severely worsened the potential for misuse of deepfakes in identity theft and the use of misinformation

#DeepFake #AI

This article is part 1 of a 3-part series on Deepfake Detection.

https://open.substack.com/pub/artificialintelligencemadesimple/p/detecting-deepfakes-leveraging-ai

Prt 2

https://open.substack.com/pub/artificialintelligencemadesimple/p/deepfake-detection-building-the-future

But as the Bill went through the Commons George Cunningham an expat Scot who represented Islington, inserted an amendment ruling that 40% of the electorate had to vote yes - not of the votes, the electorate. So people who were dead or had the left the country or who never voted were to be counted as supporting the status quo. This was obviously an unreachable bar. This sucked air out of the movement.

When Labour came into power in 1974, they did so with a strengthened commitment to Home Rule for Scotland

“The classic nationalist scenario, that of heightened expectations punctured by reality.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/jackie125/p/the-movement-for-self-goverment-for

The Labour government accepted demands from a rebel group for a referendum. That was seen as a delaying tactic but not a catastrophe

Ukrainian children stolen by Russia

https://youtu.be/-4c-baj28x0

{Posted that vid a while back}

Thousands of Ukrainian youngsters were abducted and indoctrinated to be ‘mini soldiers’.

But a summer camp is helping those that were rescued

#Russia #Ukraine

https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/they-tried-to-make-us-russians-the-children-putin-stole-kpf9vrv7b

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/111481864919594660

Sidenote: operation mindcontrol

Belarus: the indoctrination of minors is rising in scale and taking on new forms

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112643692966451779

Amount of money getting donated for a political candidate is astonishing

And is that really something to cheer about ?

Its just another part of politics that makes it ugly, corrupt, and turns it into a popularity contest

Couldn't all that money be better spent - donated to better causes - given to people who actually need it

¯\(°_o)/¯

Idk i just think focusing, and cheering, on that part is........meh.....

#JusSayin

@2Echo68Whiskey 🙄

più vicario del caffè

BREAKING NEWS;

severe flooding warnings in all red Republican states issued as grown ass adults reported going to bed early and crying uncontrollably

Areas might be affected by rivers of tears by early morning

"if it is out of your control then why sweat it"

-- Σ = Mᄃ²

it's not what you have done - it's what you are doing that matters the most

digitally-altered image of Kamala Harris posing alongside Jeffrey Epstein is being shared

real image, captured in 2015, shows Harris posing with her husband