Ben Estens
Ben Estens
@bestens.bsky.social
Enterprise IT Security Support and all round lunatic. Never to be taken seriously until I should be... Then God Help us all.

🦘🇦🇺 🤠 Aussie (he/him)
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Might save a life.
March 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS371/
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-biz-ne...

-Greece is close to burying its Predatorgate scandal
-Members of US Congress targeted by phishing op
-FCC proposes new telco cyber rules following Salt Typhoon hacks
-new DaMAgeCard attack exploits SD Express standard
December 9, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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Chinese APT abuses VSC for C2

"Our visibility suggests that the abuse of Visual Studio Code for C2 purposes had been relatively rare in the wild prior to this campaign."

www.sentinelone.com/labs/operati...
Operation Digital Eye | Chinese APT Compromises Critical Digital Infrastructure via Visual Studio Code Tunnels
Threat actors abused Visual Studio Code and Microsoft Azure infrastructure to target large business-to-business IT service providers in Southern Europe.
www.sentinelone.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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Had a great conversation on the China threat with @thekrebscycle.bsky.social this morning in Sydney -- will post audio and video when I get it.
December 5, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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Supply Chain Attack Detected in Solana's web3.js Library:
socket.dev/blog/supply-...

Solana blamed it on a phishing attack: github.com/solana-labs/...
Supply Chain Attack Detected in Solana's web3.js Library - S...
A supply chain attack has been detected in versions 1.95.6 and 1.95.7 of the popular @solana/web3.js library.
socket.dev
December 4, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Starting a cyber-related journalists starter pack. If there's a trusted journo you want added, DM me. go.bsky.app/7JWxeiH
November 21, 2024 at 2:19 PM
I just discovered my favorite person on here.

@karma2023.bsky.social

So good to see you here. 💜💜💜
November 21, 2024 at 11:35 AM