veekaybee

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

kmcquade

This only works when you have the victim account ID. For this example, let's say that the victim account ID is 999988887777.

Create a test role

First, create a role that we can use for this demo. This role is in your own account.

aws iam create-role --role-name test-enumeration \
    --assume-role-policy-document '{"Version": "2012-10-17","Statement": [{"Effect": "Allow","Principal": {"Service": "ec2.amazonaws.com"},"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"}]}'

kmcquade

• chime:CreateApiKey
• codepipeline:PollForJobs
• cognito-identity:GetOpenIdToken
• cognito-identity:GetOpenIdTokenForDeveloperIdentity
• cognito-identity:GetCredentialsForIdentity
• connect:GetFederationToken
• connect:GetFederationTokens
• ecr:GetAuthorizationToken
• [gamelift:RequestUploadCredentials](ht

carnal0wnage

# gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=85.json
# gcloud projects list

project="my-project"
space=""

echo "gcloud auth list"
gcloud auth list
echo -e "$space"

jhaddix

## AWS
# from http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html#instancedata-data-categories

http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data
http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data/iam/security-credentials/[ROLE NAME]
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/[ROLE NAME]
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ami-id
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/reservation-id
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/hostname
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-keys/0/openssh-key

pydevops

• 0.1. References
• 0.2. Other cheatsheets
• 0.3. Manage multiple gcloud config configurations
  • 0.3.1. Switch gcloud context with gcloud config
• 0.4. Credentials
• 0.5. info
• 0.6. projects
• 0.7. zones & regions
• 0.8. Organization
• 0.9. billing

vulnersCom

#petya #petrWrap #notPetya

Win32/Diskcoder.Petya.C

Ransomware attack.

About

This gist was built by the community of the researchers and was scribed by Kir and Igor from the QIWI/Vulners. We are grateful for the help of all those who sent us the data, links and information. Together we can make this world a better place!

Gist updates

rain-1

WannaCry|WannaDecrypt0r NSA-Cyberweapon-Powered Ransomware Worm

• Virus Name: WannaCrypt, WannaCry, WanaCrypt0r, WCrypt, WCRY
• Vector: All Windows versions before Windows 10 are vulnerable if not patched for MS-17-010. It uses EternalBlue MS17-010 to propagate.
• Ransom: between $300 to $600. There is code to 'rm' (delete) files in the virus. Seems to reset if the virus crashes.
• Backdooring: The worm loops through every RDP session on a system to run the ransomware as that user. It also installs the DOUBLEPULSAR backdoor. It corrupts shadow volumes to make recovery harder. (source: malwarebytes)
• Kill switch: If the website www.iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com is up the virus exits instead of infecting the host. (source: malwarebytes). This domain has been sinkholed, stopping the spread of the worm. Will not work if proxied (source).

update: A minor variant of the viru

carnal0wnage

From: http://redteams.net/bookshelf/
Techie

    Unauthorised Access: Physical Penetration Testing For IT Security Teams by Wil Allsopp.
    Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking by Christopher Hadnagy
    Practical Lock Picking: A Physical Penetration Tester's Training Guide by Deviant Ollam
    The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin Mitnick
    Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson and Hacking Exposed by Stuart McClure and others.
    Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning by Fyodor
    The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes by several authors

spaze

2023 update

ℹ️ Please note this research is from 2016 when Opera has first added their browser "VPN", even before the "Chinese deal" was closed. They have since introduced some real VPN apps but this below is not about them.

🕵️ Some folks also like to use this article to show a proof that the Opera browser is a spyware or that Opera sells all your data to 3rd parties or something like that. This article here doesn't say anything like that.

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When setting up (that's immediately when user enables it in settings) Opera VPN sends few API requests to https://api.surfeasy.com to obtain credentials and proxy IPs, see below, also see The Oprah Proxy.

The browser then talks to a proxy de0.opera-proxy.net (when VPN location is set to Germany), it's IP address can only be resolved from within Opera when VPN is on, it's 185.108.219.42 (or similar, see below). It's an HTTP/S proxy which requires auth.