Cyber Security Researcher | Engineer | Building @CVEtrends | Runs honeypot @SecureHoney | PhD in CyberSecurity | Alum @RoyalHolloway (@ISGNews) & @SussexUni
London, England
Joined February 2009
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Simon J. Bell retweeted
We're not on vacation! It's just that Lagos, Portugal, is so beautiful ☀️ We had a very fun and productive offsite there for our European and Security teams. Big shoutout to @Balgan and #OurCoalition
Simon J. Bell retweeted
@CVEtrends should have more followers
The CVE Trends project gathers crowdsourced vulnerability trends intelligence from the best #infosec source - Twitter.
Kudos to @SimonByte for this great community contribution.
Simon J. Bell retweeted
New features:
- trend graphs! 📈
- settings auto save to device 💾
- dock stats (via settings)
- hide scrollbars (via settings)
👉 cvetrends.com
Feedback welcome :)
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Mark's Extendable Thyroid Adventures (META):
For every 10 retweets, Mark's neck extends!
Hit retweet 🔁 then click the link below to see his neck grow! 👇
simonbyte.com/meta/
Simon J. Bell retweeted
Reflected XSS a short flyer.
Reviewed by our XSS Guru, Mr @theXSSrat, thank you my friend.
Download: securityzines.com/flyers/rxs…
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#infosec #appsec #zines #bugbountytips #bugbounty #bugbountytip #Learn365 #security #cybersecurity #hackers
Simon J. Bell retweeted
time flies when you've been staring at the same piece of code for 9 hours trying to fix a bug
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#Wireshark 3.4.9 has been released. Enjoy.
wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/…
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APWG Phishing Trends Report Q2 2021
#Phishing against #cryptocurrency targets, such as cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet providers, shot from 2 percent of all attacks in Q1 to 7.5 percent in Q2.
bit.ly/3u27q9y
@OpSecSecurity @AgariInc @PhishLabs @RiskIQ
Simon J. Bell retweeted
SSH honeypot stats (past week):
Of 2,355 attacker shell commands:
• 34% target Hive OS
• 19% probe uname
• 17% download Mirai malware
• 13% target Mikrotik routers
• 8% download XMRig miner from GitHub
securehoney.net
Simon J. Bell retweeted
As graduation ceremonies @RoyalHolloway are postponed for the 2nd year the school of EPMS release a video for the class of 2021.Congrats to our own Dr Simon Bell @SimonByte Dr Ben Curtis, Dr Torben Hansen @n_tbh Dr Blake Loring and Dr Fernando Virdia. royalholloway.ac.uk/class-of…
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To celebrate 10 years of @google's Vulnerability Rewards Programs, we are excited to announce the launch of our new platform: bughunters.google.com!
Learn more about the platform and enhancements to our VRP program here: security.googleblog.com/2021…
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My latest blog post investigates how threat actors seek riches through cryptojacking. I examine my SSH honeypots' logs to understand current attack techniques, including:
- credentials
- shell commands
- malware
securehoney.net/blog/cryptoj…
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Together with Lenka Mareková, @kennyog and Igors Stepanovs, we took a deep dive into @telegram’s symmetric cryptography: “Four Attacks and a Proof for Telegram” to be presented at @IEEESSP 2022. mtpsym.github.io/ 🧵 by @kennyog and me:
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5.9K email:pass file being shared on hacking forum. Unknown origin. Mixed match on our database, some previously seen and some not. (contains some .mil, gov.il entries). #passdump #darkwebmonitoring
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📰 Another year, another @ISGnews newsletter! In the first article, Head of Department Peter Komisarczuk reflects on the challenges and successes of the year ➡️ royalholloway.ac.uk/media/17…
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We are aware of the fire at Elephant and Castle and we hope everyone is OK.
If you've been evacuated and need somewhere to go our door is open for you to charge your phone, have some water or take a seat in our bar. We are 77-85 Newington Causeway - two minutes from the station.
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Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters are attending a fire at railway arches near to #ElephantCastle railway station. Please avoid the area and close all doors and windows
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This NHS phishing email was reported to us via the Suspicious Email Reporting Service at 10:06 this morning and was taken down by 10:33!
Please do keep forwarding suspicious emails to [email protected] so we can continue to take quick action ncsc.gov.uk/information/repo…
Simon J. Bell retweeted
SSH honeypot stats from past 24 hrs:
2,849 logins (1,827 unique) from 194 different IPs
Username "user" used 160 times
Password "admin" used 109 times
Command "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ..." used 109 times
SecureHoney.net
#infosec
Simon J. Bell retweeted
SSH honeypot stats from past 24 hrs:
3,216 logins (1,034 unique) from 230 different IPs
Username "user" used 226 times
Password "123456" used 191 times
Command "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ..." used 135 times
SecureHoney.net
