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Accidental VirusTotal upload is a valuable reminder to double check what you share

July 20, 2023 0 Comments Business, data, document, download, file, files, Google, Intelligence, share, sharing, social media, upload, virustotal

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We take a look at reports of a document being accidentally shared to the VirusTotal service and potentially exposing names and email addresses in the security and intelligence community.

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Fake Proof-of-Concepts used to lure security professionals

October 27, 2022 0 Comments abuseipdb, Exploits and vulnerabilities, github, leiden, news, poc, pocs, virustotal

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Researchers from Leiden University analyzed many thousands of Proof-of-Concepts and found that 10 percent of those they found on GitHub are malicious

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A week in security (April 18 – 24)

April 25, 2022 0 Comments A week in security, elon musk, lazarus, oracle, pegasus, scrape public data, twitter philanthropists, ukraine donation scammers, virustotal

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:44:06 +0000

The most important and interesting stories in security from the last seven days

The post A week in security (April 18 – 24) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Why you shouldn’t automate your VirusTotal uploads

April 18, 2022 0 Comments 101, attachments, bsi, tlp, virustotal

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:33:35 +0000

Security teams use VirusTotal as a second opinion scanner, but it’s not advisable to upload documents to VirusTotal as that may result in a breach of confidence and exposure of confidential data.

The post Why you shouldn’t automate your VirusTotal uploads appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Caution: Misuse of security tools can turn against you

July 19, 2019 0 Comments automation, Carbon Black, data leaks, EDR platforms, exes, infosec, opsec, plugins, remediation and prevention, Researcher's corner, rules-based segmentation, security solutions, security tools, virustotal, VT

Credit to Author: Vasilios Hioureas| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:34:57 +0000

If not implemented correctly, the very security tools we use to keep our information private may actually cause data leaks themselves. We outline a few cases and provide suggestions for researchers and security admins.

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