Collaborate Disseminate
Getting a perfect workshop together, with all the right tools, is a dream for many. A lot of us cobble together what we can with a dremel tool, a soldering iron, and whatever work surface happens to be available in the kitchen or spare bedroom. But even when we finally …read more
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In the embedded world, twiddling a few bits is expected behavior. Firmware is far enough down the stack that the author may care about the number of bits and bytes used, or needs to work with registers directly to make the machine dance. Usually these operations are confined to the …read more
Continue reading These Bit Twiddling Tricks Will Make Your Coworkers Hate You
The BITS file-transfer component of Windows as a key piece of sLoad’s attack methodology. Continue reading Elegant sLoad Carries Out Spying, Payload Delivery in BITS
Most Hackaday readers are familiar with computers from the 70s and 80s, but what about ones even older than that? The Digi Comp 1 was a commercially available computer from the 1960s that actually cost less than a modern-day microcontroller. The catch? It was mechanical rather than electrical. Thanks to …read more
Cyberespionage attackers have ditched their PowerShell backdoor in favor of the Windows BITS ‘notification’ feature. Continue reading Stealth Falcon Targets Middle East with Windows BITS Feature
[Laura Kampf] found a new use for an old Zippo lighter by turning it into a carrier for her screwdriver bits. There are several multitools out there which can accept standard screwdriver bits. The problem is carrying those bits around. Leaving a few bits in your pocket is a recipe for pocket holes and missing bits.
[Laura’s] solution uses her old Zippo lighter. All she needs is the case, the lighter element itself can be saved for another project. A block of aluminum is cut and sanded down to a friction fit. Laura uses a band saw and bench sander …read more
I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Investigating Microsoft BITS Activity“: Microsoft BITS (“Background Intelligent Transfer Service”) is a tool present[1] in all modern Microsoft Windows operating systems. As the name says, you can see it as a “curl” or “wget” tool for Windows. It helps to transfer files between
[The post [SANS ISC] Investigating Microsoft BITS Activity has been first published on /dev/random]
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Researchers say a new remote access Trojan dubbed UBoatRAT is targeting individuals or organizations linked to South Korea or video games industry. Continue reading RAT Distributed Via Google Drive Targets East Asia
According to security researchers attackers are exploiting a Windows BITS lesser-known “notification” feature to reinfect PCs with malware over and over again. Continue reading Windows BITS ‘Notification’ Feature Used to Deliver Malware