Tabla de contenidos para August 2022 en Hackercool Magazine

Anne Toomey McKenna Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond. Data privacy in the U.S. is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and financial data, the cradle of the world’s largest tech companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta (Facebook), lacks any comprehensive federal data privacy law. This leaves U.S. citizens with minimal data privacy protections compared with citizens of other nations. But that may be about to change. With rare bipartisan support, the American Data and Privacy Protection Act moved out of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce by a vote of 53-2 on July 20, 2022. The bill still needs to pass the full House and the Senate, and negotiations are ongoing. Given the Biden administration’s responsib=le…

Our readers have learnt about some crypters in our Magazine. A crypter is a software used to make the malware undetectable by Anti-Malware. Well, Dark Tortilla is one such crypter. The speciality of Dark Tortilla is not that it has been around since 2015 but also that it has been successful in evading detection since then. In this article, readers will learn how DarkTortilla has been evading detection. DarkTortilla is .NET based crypter that has been used to deliver many popular information stealers and RATs like Agent Tesla Redline, Nanocore Async RAT, Cobalt Strike and even Metasploit. Researchers at Counter Threat Unit (CTU) of SecureWorks have observed that 93 samples of Dark Tortilla were being uploaded on average every week to VirusTotal since January 2021 to May 2022. They began…

Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. John 8:32 Two of our Real World hacking tutorials did not work as expected. That is the reason for delay this time. But since delay is delay, WE ARE SORRY. "THE TECHNIQUE IS DESIGNED TO BE TRIGGERED WHEN THE USER STARTS THE PRESENTATION MODE AND MOVES THE MOUSE, THE CODE EXECUTION RUNS A POWERSHELL SCRIPT THAT DOWNLOADS AND EXECUTES A DROPPER FROM ONEDRIVE."- CYBERSECURITY FIRM CLUSTER25 ABOUT POWERPOINT MOUSEOVER ATTACK…

People ask me so many questions about hacking. The questions are all about hacking but they vary so much that I feel like they are trying to connect earth to various points in Solar System back and forth. Some of the questions include, how is Information Security same as ethical hacking? What is the difference between Red Hat hacking and Blackhat hacking? Which programming language should I learn to become a hacker? What course should I take to become a hacker etc. In this Issue, I decided to converge various points these people are trying to connect and answer a question that appears at that convergence. That question is HOW TO BECOME A HACKER? Yes. How to become a hacker? This question is special to me for another reason too.…

Gareth Norris Senior Lecturer, Department Of Psychology, Aberystwyth University Max Elza, Senior Lecturer in Computer Security, Liverpool John Moores University Oliver Buckley, Associate Professor In Cyber Security, University Of East Anglia We all like to think we’re immune to scams. We scoff at emails from an unknown sender offering us £2 million, in exchange for our bank details. But the game has changed and con artists have developed new, chilling tactics. They are taking the personal approach and scouring the internet for all the details they can find about us. Scammers are getting so good at it that even cybersecurity experts are taken in. One of us (Oliver Buckley) recalls that in 2018 he received an email from the pro-vice chancellor of his university. This is it, I thought. I’m…