By running this command, I can see that the executable was signed by Microsoft Corp. using a certificate issued by the Microsoft Code Signing CA.Command results (Click the image for a larger view)Let me stress that under default conditions, it's very difficult—if not impossible—to get ...
SSL, short for Secure Socket Layer, is a security certificate used in order to encrypt the communication sent between the browser and the site server. Malicious websites, and even phishing ones for that matter don’t use SSL since they are an extra cost and hassle. Whenever you land on a...
steps. For the past 13 years, Microsoft has required third-party drivers and other code that runs in the Windows kernel to be tested and digitally signed by the OS maker to ensure stability and security. Without a Microsoft certificate, these types of programs can’t be installed by default...
Microsoft and the so-called “antivirus” vendors are working in partnership with companies that issue code-signing certificates. Those certificates cost thousands of dollars yearly. Like that was not enough, they recently introduced a new type of EV certificate that even cost tens of thousands of...
The Yara offline scanning feature is a standalone option, meaning, if enabled, Crawlector will execute this feature only irrespective of other enabled features. And, the same is true for the crawling for domains/sites digital certificate feature. Either way, it is recommended that you disable al...
Threads are spawned that execute functions to install a fake certificate and run a local proxy, while another thread is injected and executed inside the loaded browser process, which is responsible for redirecting traffic via proxy. A thread runs to traverse the list of running processes and ...
When a CA signs a public-key certificate, the CA is asserting that the same entity that controls the domain named in the certificate also controls the public key embedded in the certificate. Stickler only relies on HTTPS, and therefore on CAs, for reliably obtaining the publisher's public ...
The malicious code, as isincreasingly the case, is concealed in the setup script (setup.py) of these libraries, meaning running a "pip install" command is enough to activate the malware deployment process. The malware is designed to launch a PowerShell script that retrieves a ZIP archive fil...
By running this command, I can see that the executable was signed by Microsoft Corp. using a certificate issued by the Microsoft Code Signing CA. Command results (Click the image for a larger view) Let me stress that under default conditions, it's very difficult—if not impossible—to get...
By running this command, I can see that the executable was signed by Microsoft Corp. using a certificate issued by the Microsoft Code Signing CA. Command results (Click the image for a larger view) Let me stress that under default conditions, it's very difficult—if not impossible—to get...