Is my house spying on me?

Do you ever get the feeing you are being watched? What about listening to it? Do you ever talk about a subject and then see it appear in adverts despite never using a computer to search for it?

Well don’t worry there’s lots of reasons as to why this can occur, and whilst you might want to think someone is spying on you, the truth is they probably aren’t looking for you, but they might be harvesting your data.

IOT

IoT Security

The digital explosion, the consumerization of technology and the world of internet connected fridges leads to a range of security and privacy risks.

There’s lots of work that’s occurred in this space, for example there is the : Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security

Threat Intel

Active Cybercrime Groups

Ransomware this, ransomware that! The problem is, you can be tired of the subject but that doesn’t mean the threat has gone away! So what are the currently active ransomware groups posting victims?

Well here’s a list of currently active group (Both Ransomware and Marketplaces) names who have ONLINE “DARK WEB” (TOR) hidden services online and who are posting victims or are markets:

Education

How would I apply to the role of “Head…

I was pottering about (not like a wizard, more like a cold infected zombie!) and an email hit my mailbox with the “Head of Cyber Architecture” at BA. I have no intention of applying but I thought.. I wonder if this is a good exercise to show people how I would go about the exercise? Well to even begin this I need to write down some notes. So I guess here we go… how far I get into this “fantast football” style scenario who knows, but hopefully it will show some people how I might do things! First up let’s look at the raw requirement:

Threat Intel

DNSSEC – why not having a signed zone is…

Firstly, what is DNSSEC?

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/dnssec-what-is-it-why-important-2019-03-05-en

Ok read all that good. What we are talking about here is signing a DNS zone to “assure” that the client is getting DNS responses from the right ZONE data. DNSSEC does not encrypt the conversation between DNS client and DNS server. It does enable the client to be able to check if the data it gets back is valid. In short what we are doing is validating that the “data” being returned is authorized and not tampered with.

Threat Intel

ESXiargs Summary 09-02-2023 10:03

What do we know?

Adversary: Unknown, likely Criminal Actor/s

Initial Access Vector: Unknown/Unproven

Impact: ~3K+ Hosts have had Remote Code Execute and their ESXi logon pages changed (plus had encryption routines run to encrypt virtual machines, with varying success). A Second encryption routine has been deployed to some hosts; the threat actor is expanding/changing capabilities.

Risk: Further impact, Additional Threat Actors Exploit the vulnerability

Vulnerabilities

ESXIArgs Vulnerable ESXi Spreadsheet

I knocked this up quickly but I “think” it’s accurate. Use at own risk etc.

ESXi-RCE-Vulnerable-Builds Download

Let me know if you find any errors/changes required etc.

Education

How to get some OPSEC with Kali?

There are major questions that must be answered here!

How do we change the hostname in KALI Linux?
How do we change the default TTL to look like a Windows Machine?
How do we pretend to be a SAMSUNG device/How do we change our MAC address?

Getting into Cyber

How to get into Cyber? It’s EASY!

Quick, I’ll tell you a little secret… to get into CYBER you must first follow this guide:

Now if you are going to GET INTO CYBER you need to have a range of things:

Computer Hacking Skills
Num-chuk Skills

Right ok, so let’s get some Hacking Skills!

Head over to KALI LINUX and download KALI

Threat Intel

ESXiARGS Ransomware – Global Incident

Thousands of ESXi hosts around (some of the) globe have been encrypted by cyber criminals. This post is a fast publish showing some of what has occurred, it’s impact and now includes limited remedial advice.

If you have been affected by this ransomware event there is an attempted recovery script by CISA

https://github.com/cisagov/ESXiArgs-Recover/blob/main/recover.sh