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ExecScent a new cyber security tool to sniff malware traffic by identifying network behavior

Researchers from Georgia Institute of Tech developed a prototype tool called ExecScent  to identify Malware traffic connecting to command and control center.  Based on the reports ExecScent discovers hundreds of infected hosts which was not known earlier.  The tool uses intelligence to identify bad traffic over the good traffic. If this tool works and is […]
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Google Cloud Messaging Service being exploited by Android Malware

A Researcher at Kaspersky Lab published an article about the malicious Andoird Apps using Google Cloud Platform Messaging Service and leverage it as CnC (Control & Command Server) to carry out attacks. Kaspersky Researchers found 1,000,000 different OpFake installers disguised mostly games. The app sends several commands from both the GCM and its own C&C, […]
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Zmap – open-source network scanner could scan the globe in 45 minutes making the internet look tiny

Security researchers from University of Michigan have come up with an amazing tool to scan the internet.  As per the reports, the scanner can scan the entire web in 45 minutes which sounds almost a miracle.  Often security testers used nmap for their scan which took a long time scanning their targets but this research […]
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