For the past year and a half, I’ve been on one of the wildest adventures of my life, writing a book on UFOs and UAP. It has taken me through a painstaking process of finding and connecting with people who may hold valuable information for my work.
Recently, the killer vulnerability research team at Qualys discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in OpenSSH that exploits a race condition within SSH. This vulnerability is particularly concerning because SSH is commonly exposed to the internet for remote system management.
The volume and quality of Threat Intelligence for Linux attacks have traditionally lagged behind that for Windows, despite Linux's significant cloud presence. Most reports have focused on reverse engineering Linux-based malware and attack tools.
Over the past few weeks, I have done a deep dive into the public research available on Linux Ransomware, seeking to understand the broader landscape as there is an over emphasis on the Mirai botnet. I discovered that although there is an abundance of *outstanding* whitepapers and research pieces,
As someone that primarily does Linux security research, I was frustrated that there wasn't an equivalent of an imphash for Linux ELF binaries. So, I decided to make one myself. Introducing ImpELF.
This is a blog dedicated to those like myself who may have an "alternative" background when it comes to getting into cybersecurity.
Lets face it - the state of Linux security monitoring sucks. Linux is often treated as a second class citizen in terms of feature set when compared to its windows counter parts.