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Communication Satellites
In late February 2022, just hours before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, Russia had carried out a cyberattack that disrupted satellite communications in Ukraine; as determined by U.S. and European officials. The attack targeted ViaSat's KA-SAT ...
SolarWinds Compromise
The SolarWinds compromise was a major cyber attack that occurred in 2020 and targeted various government and private organizations around the world. The attack has been attributed to Russia and is believed to have been carried out by APT29, a Russia-...
APT 29
APT 29, also known as Cozy Bear or The Dukes, is a highly sophisticated cyber espionage group believed to be sponsored by the Russian government. The group has been active since at least 2008 and has been linked to a number of high-profile cyber atta...
Lateral Movement
Lateral movement is a technique used by attackers to move within a network, laterally, to gain access to additional resources and systems. This can be done to escalate privileges, access sensitive data, or to maintain a foothold within the network fo...
Metasploit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCPyoWHy4eA Metasploit is a framework for developing, testing, and executing exploits against a target system. It is commonly used by security professionals and researchers to perform penetration testing and vulnerabil...
NSO Group
NSO Group is a cybersecurity company based in Israel that is developing and selling spyware tools to governments and other organizations around the world. The company's products, which include the Pegasus spyware platform, have been used to target hu...
Ransomware
Ransomware is a malicious software designed to encrypt a victim's files, preventing access until a ransom is paid to the attacker. The payment is typically demanded in exchange for a decryption key to unlock the encrypted files. Victims can fall prey...
Spyware
Spyware is a type of malicious software that is installed on a device without the user's knowledge or consent. It is designed to gather information about the user's online activities and send it to the creator of the spyware, often for the purpose of...
Zero Click Attack
A zero-click attack is a type of cyber attack that allows an adversary to gain access to or control over a target device without the need for any user interaction. In other words, the attack can be executed without the user clicking on any links, dow...
Zero Day Vulnerability
A zero day vulnerability is a type of computer security vulnerability that is unknown to the parties responsible for patching or fixing the vulnerability. This means that the vulnerability has not yet been publicly disclosed and has not been patched,...
SYN Flood Attack
An illustration of TCP SYN Flood Attacks A TCP SYN flood is a type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that aims to overwhelm the target system with a flood of connection requests. The attack is named after the SYN packet, which is used to...
Distributed Denial of Service Attack
https://youtu.be/YcH7qx6HTII A denial of service (DoS) attack is a type of cyber attack that aims to disrupt the normal operation of a service by overwhelming it with a flood of traffic, requests, or connections. This can overload the available bandw...
Teardrop Attack
A teardrop attack is a special kind of denial of service attack that involves sending malformed network packets to the target machine. Specifically, the packets contain mangled IP fragments with overlapping, oversized payloads. This can crash various...