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A Step to Doom the Entertainment Industry and Defence Apt-8

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APT 8! This is a serious bummer for everyone, especially those who make a living out of social media, because it attacks the entertaining industries. Threat Sector APT 8's target's both an organization and an individual and their domains were Cyber industries, media and entertainment, aerospace and construction. APT 8 APT 8 is involves in cyberattacks to achieve Intellectual Property Theft. Similar to APT 7 it steals data from different companies and organizations that shares cyber field. To add furthermore into the mist, these attacks are done by a group of freelancers abode with the Chinese government. The attacks done on the entertainment industries had made a great impact in terms of money. Countries like India, Japan, Germany, U.K., are few of many countries which sees major flow of money through entertainment and these countries had been the targeted ones.   Attack Vectors To condemn the targeted companies, The spear phishing e-mails attacks are used, implied with malicio...

Can hackers penetrate satellite?

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Well, it's been a bit long time, no see folks, but we are back again. Today we've shuttled into the topic of space. We all know the universe is still not defined, yet humans are not even in the first stage of the discovery process. At first, we thought, will there be any privacy in space ? Interesting, eh? But after spacing out from a deep thinking, we decided to move with space hacking!! Yes, you read that correct. Curious, isn't!. So, Let's Launch. Hacking satellites. Before knowing about how hackers used to hack them. We need to know about two things. 1. How does the satellite communicate 2. DEF CON 1. Basic understanding of a satellite The basic functionality of a satellite is to transmit/receive the radio frequency signal that operates in C-band signal which lies in between UHF and SHF bands of radio spectrum. This process happens due to the presence of transponder.                             ...