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Darknet - The Darkside : No BEAST Fix From Microsoft In December Patch Tuesday – But They Fixed Duqu Bug

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It looks like Microsoft originally had a patch for the BEAST vulnerability, but for some reason they have withdrawn it for the December Patch Tuesday. It’s a pretty bumper crop of patches though with 13 bulletins and 19 vulnerabilities fixed, the highest profile one being a patch for the zero-day vulnerability exploited by Duqu. The [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : winAUTOPWN v2.8 Released For Download – Windows Auto-Hacking Toolkit

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I wanted to post this a while back, but the site (and thus the download) was down again – it seems to be a common occurrence. Someone get this guy some proper hosting! winAUTOPWN and bsdAUTOPWN are minimal Interactive Frameworks which act as a frontend for quick systems vulnerability exploitation. It takes inputs like IP [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : NetworkMiner v1.1 Released – Windows Packet Analyzer & Sniffer

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NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows. NetworkMiner can be used as a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool in order to detect operating systems, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. without putting any traffic on the network. NetworkMiner can also parse PCAP files for off-line analysis and to…

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Darknet - The Darkside : winAUTOPWN v2.7 Released – Windows Autohacking Tool

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I’ve always been skeptical about this tool, especially seen as though the first version was released on April Fools day in 2009, anyway it’s 2 years later now and it still seems to be around so I think it’s worth publishing an update. If any of you have actually tested this tool out, do drop [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : Security Researchers Discover 4 Million Strong ‘Indestructible’ Botnet – TDSS/TDL

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It’s been recently uncovered that there’s a HUGE botnet, which is extremely advanced and constantly evolving a variant of the ever popular (and usually quite advanced) TDL strain. We did write about a TDL variant earlier in 2010 – TDL AKA Alureon Rootkit Now Infecting 64-Bit Windows 7 Platform. TDL itself has been around several…

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Darknet - The Darkside : Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit (EMET)

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The enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system. Software vulnerabilities and exploits have become an everyday part of life. Virtually every product has to deal with them and consequently, users are faced with a stream of security updates. For users who get attacked before…

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Darknet - The Darkside : Microsoft Implements Company Policy For Vulnerability Disclosure

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Microsoft has implemented a new company policy regarding vulnerability disclosure in non-Microsoft products (third-party products). Unsurprisingly they are following the ‘responsible disclosure’ line rather than the ‘full disclosure’ line favoured by the infosec community. It’s fair enough though, as they say treat…

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Darknet - The Darkside : Microsoft Unleashes Record Breaking Patch Tuesday – April 2011

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We all love Patch Tuesday – no doubt about that right? Well Microsoft has blessed us this month with the biggest Patch Tuesday in the history of the program. That’s a good thing because it’s had some horribly effective vulnerabilities revealed lately. It managed to package up a massive bundle of patches for 64 vulnerabilities…

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Darknet - The Darkside : RawCap – Free Command Line Packet/Network Sniffer For Windows (Raw Sockets)

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RawCap is a free command line network sniffer for Windows that uses raw sockets. Features Can sniff any interface that has got an IP address, including 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback) RawCap.exe is just 17 kB No external libraries or DLL’s needed other than .NET Framework 2.0 No installation required, just download RawCap.exe and sniff Can…

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Darknet - The Darkside : Day One At Pwn2Own Takes Out Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari

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Well it’s March again and well we love March because it’s Pwn2Own time! Every year around this time we get some goodies to discuss way back since: 2008 – Mac owned on 2nd day of Pwn2Own hack contest 2009 – Charlie Miller Does It Again At PWN2OWN 2010 – Mozilla Beats Apple & Microsoft to [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer – Test Software Vulnerabilities

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Attack Surface Analyzer is developed by the Security Engineering group, building on the work of our Security Science team. It is the same tool used by Microsoft’s internal product groups to catalogue changes made to operating system attack surface by the installation of new software. Attack Surface Analyzer takes a snapshot of your system…

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Darknet - The Darkside : Proxocket – DLL Proxy For Winsock

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Proxocket is a dll proxy project for the main Winsock functions which allows to capture any type of packet and data sent/received by a specific software of your choice and optionally modifying its content or the connect, bind and accept functions through a custom dll very easy to create. Proxocket handles the following functions for [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : Java Based Cross Platform Malware Trojan (Mac/Linux/Windows)

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It’s pretty rare to read about malware on the Linux or Mac OSX platforms and even more rare to read about cross-platform malware which targets both AND Windows by using Java. A neat piece of coding indeed, it targets vulnerabilities in all 3 operating systems – the sad thing? The malware itself is vulnerable to [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : Internet Explorer Zero-Day Accidentally Leaked To Chinese Hackers

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First up, happy new year – let’s hope 2011 is an interesting year for the infosec community. Anyway today’s story is about the recently released tool cross_fuzz by Michal Zalewski and an inadvertent leak that have occurred. tl;dr version is something like this: Michal Zalewski writes a DOM fuzzer, fuzzes IE, finds flaws, Chinese…

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Darknet - The Darkside : IOCTL Fuzzer v1.2 – Fuzzing Tool For Windows Kernel Drivers

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IOCTL Fuzzer is a tool designed to automate the task of searching vulnerabilities in Windows kernel drivers by performing fuzz tests on them. The fuzzer’s own driver hooks NtDeviceIoControlFile in order to take control of all IOCTL requests throughout the system. While processing IOCTLs, the fuzzer will spoof those IOCTLs conforming to conditions…

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Darknet - The Darkside : Windows Vista & Windows 7 Kernel Bug Can Bypass UAC

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Now this is not the first time Windows UAC has hit the news for being flawed, back in February 2009 it was discovered that Windows 7 UAC Vulnerable – User Mode Program Can Disable User Access Control and after that in November 2009 it was demonstrated that Windows 7 UAC (User Access Control) Ineffective Against [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : TDL AKA Alureon Rootkit Now Infecting 64-Bit Windows 7 Platform

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As we’ve come to expect, the malware guys are always at the leading edge of technological development. Now there are rootkits infecting 64-Bit versions of Windows, which have been thought of as fairly safe by most parties. The rootkit in questions is a fairly well known variant (TDL/Alureon) and has been around for several years, [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : Critical 0-day Vulnerability In Adobe Flash Player, Reader & Acrobat

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Well this seems to be a frequently recurring theme, yes there is yet another critical 0day vulnerability in Adobe products – pretty much across the board this time. It was that long ago that a critical flaw in Flash put Android phones at risk. The core vulnerability exists in Flash but it’s being actively exploited [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : USBsploit 0.3b – Generate Reverse TCP Backdoors & Malicious .LNK Files

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PoC to generate Reverse TCP backdoors (x86, x64, all ports), running Autorun or LNK USB infections, but also dumping all USB files remotely on multiple targets at the same time. USBsploit works through Meterpreter sessions with a light (27MB) modified version of Metasploit. The interface is a mod of SET (The Social Engineering Toolkit). The [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : Windows Credentials Editor v1.0 – List, Add & Edit Logon Sessions

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Windows Credentials Editor (WCE) allows to list logon sessions and add, change, list and delete associated credentials (ex.: LM/NT hashes). This can be used, for example, to perform pass-the-hash on Windows and also obtain NT/LM hashes from memory (from interactive logons, services, remote desktop connections, etc.) which can be used in further…

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Darknet - The Darkside : Exploit Next Generation SQL Fingerprint (ESF) – MS-SQL Server Fingerprinting Tool

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SQL Server fingerprinting can be a time consuming process. It involves a lot many trial and error methods to fingerprint the exact SQL Server version. Intentionally inserting an invalid input to obtain a typical error message or using certain alphabets that are unique for a certain server are two of the ways to possibly fingerprint [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : Microsoft Warns Of ASP.Net Vulnerability In The Wild – Cryptographic Padding Attack

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There seems to be a fairly serious attack being exploited in the wild that targets vulnerable ASP.Net web applications, so far there is a temporary fix but no official announcement on when a patch will be issued. The next scheduled patches should be pushed out on October 12th. If you had set up your server [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : Microsoft Fixes SSL Spoofing Renegotiation Bug

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Well this flaw was first publicized in November last year, it was successfully used against Twitter in the same month. IETF completed the SSL vulnerability fix in January this year and now in August – 10 months after the original release of the flaw – Microsoft has stepped up and fixed it. The fix is [...]

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Darknet - The Darkside : Microsoft Confirms Windows Zero Day Bug In Shortcut Files

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This is a pretty nasty attack and for once Microsoft have actually acknowledged and confirmed this is a critical unpatched vulnerability. Incidentally Microsoft also recently retired Windows XP SP2 from the support cycle, and this vulnerability effects that system and they have stated they will not be patching it. It’s a pretty serious bug…

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Darknet - The Darkside : Metasploit Framework 3.4.1 Released – 16 New Exploits, 22 Modules & 11 Meterpreter Scripts

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The Metasploit Project is proud to announce the release of the Metasploit Framework version 3.4.1. This release sees the first official non-Windows Meterpreter payload, in PHP as discussed last month here. Rest assured that more is in store for Meterpreter on other platforms. A new extension called Railgun is now integrated into Meterpreter…

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