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Weaponizing Historical Malware for Bio-Warfare APT-9

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Advancing till APT9 made us to think why emergent and emerging nations are allegedly suspecting china for the cyberattack. To suspect China, those nations require additional information. As of now, the world powers says that all command and control are located in China, and also they are the one to introduce the concept of APT(Advanced Persistent Threat). APT9 APT9 targets biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. They gained initial access through spearfishing mails and acting as a trusted party between the industry. APT 9 uses some malwares which were already used by the APT1, APT4 and APT5 threat groups. They modified it in accordance to their needs, so that antivirus engine can't detect those threats as their hash value are modified. Most of the RAT's and backdoors used in this attack are already been used by other threat groups in China, so this is also suspected to be originated from China. Source: ITW Malwares Used HomeUnix, FunRun, Zxshell, Gh0st( Apt1 ), Sogu( Apt3...

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.                             ...