New PetitPotam NTLM Relay Attack Lets Hackers Take Over Windows Domains

A newly uncovered security flaw in the Windows operating system can be exploited to coerce remote Windows servers, including Domain Controllers, to authenticate with a malicious destination, thereby allowing an adversary to stage an NTLM relay attack and completely take over a Windows domain. The issue, dubbed “PetitPotam,” was discovered by security researcher Gilles Lionel,…

Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years – TechCrunch

More posts by this contributor Factories Aren’t Dying To Take Your Order And Other Hardware Startup Follies Working With A Chinese Factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edition China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture. The country took decades to earn its reputation as the Factory of the World, but…

Dutch Police Arrest Two Hackers Tied to “Fraud Family” Cybercrime Ring

Law enforcement authorities in the Netherlands have arrested two alleged individuals belonging to a Dutch cybercriminal collective who were involved in developing, selling, and renting sophisticated phishing frameworks to other threat actors in what’s known as a “Fraud-as-a-Service” operation. The apprehended suspects, a 24-year-old software engineer and a 15-year-old boy, are said to have been…