DarkCyber for 8-25-20: Andrax Hacker Toolkit, NSO Group PR Push, Tor Under Attack, and Eagle Drone Killer
August 25, 2020
DarkCyber is a video news program produced by Stephen E Arnold, publisher of Beyond Search and DarkCyber. You can view this week’s program on YouTube or Facebook.
The program for August 25, 2020, contains four stories. The first focuses on a hacker’s toolkit called Andrax. The packager of this penetration testing bundle makes some bold claims. Security professionals who use highly-regard pentest systems from ImmunitySec are called “dumbs” and “lamers.” Clever or uninformed marketing? You have to determine the answer for yourself.
The second story summarizes highlights of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s “Technology Review” interview with the founder of NSO Group. NSO Group–unlike most vendors of specialized software–has been the subject of media scrutiny. In the interview, the founder of NSO Group seems to suggest that he does not understand the intelware market. Even more interesting is MIT’s decision to publish the interview and give NSO Group more media exposure. DarkCyber asks a question others have not posed.
The third story reviews two surprising items of information from a Nusenu study or analysis. (Nusenu may be a security firm, a Web services vendor, or a single individual.) The first interesting revelation in the Nusenu report is that about 25 percent of Tor relay exit servers have been compromised by an unknown third party. The second juicy morsel is the identification of five Internet service providers who may be hosting Tor relay servers and other interesting services.
The final story zooms to a single eagle. The Michigan government learned that an expensive drone was destroyed by an eagle. If you want your own raptor to knock down surveillance drones, DarkCyber provides a company that will provide an organic c-UAS (counter unmanned aerial system).
Kenny Toth, August 25, 2020
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