How to Protect Your Systems from Scans

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴? 💡 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜 𝐈𝐃 It’s our persistent, JS-free identifier that links every session, device, and account back to the same actor, even when attackers rotate IPs, spoof devices, or use headless browsers. It's how we... 🤖 separate good automation from bad bots 🕸️ connect fraud rings hiding in plain sight 🚦and keep trusted traffic moving without friction This quick one-pager explains more 👇🏾 Meet with our team to see it in action: https://lnkd.in/egG_cq7F

In the recent 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸 case, many are acting as if SMS 𝗢𝗧𝗣 is 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳. But the reality is that SMS-based authentication has long been vulnerable due to weaknesses in the 𝗦𝗦𝟳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝗚/𝟯𝗚 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀. Calls and SMS can be intercepted without the user’s knowledge. Sometimes, just knowing the phone number is enough. About a year ago, Veritasium even demonstrated this vulnerability on Linus’s phone, showing how easily it can be exploited. https://lnkd.in/gVThuDCi I urge banks in our country to take this threat seriously. SMS OTP should not be treated as the gold standard. Instead, users must be given safer options like authenticator apps or hardware tokens for two-step verification. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘄:  1. Use an authenticator app if the option is available (Google Authenticator, Zoho OneAuth). 2. Instead of using your publicly available phone number for the OTP message, use a lesser-known phone number. This can decrease the attack surface.

Attackers are now exploiting business logic, not just tech flaws. In this Black Hat chat, A10’s Jamison Utter shared how AI-driven observability and unified defenses stop threats before damage is done. https://bit.ly/40XITnP

⚡️ Machine identities are exploding - and most orgs aren’t ready. With 80:1 machine-to-human identities, shrinking cert lifespans, and endless tokens/keys to manage, the risk is real: outages, breaches, and chaos. And it’s about to get harder: starting March 2026, TLS certificate renewal periods drop to 200 days - shrinking further to just 47 days by 2029. The answer isn’t more manual effort - it’s automation, Zero Trust, and treating machine identities as first-class citizens. 👉 The organizations that act now will avoid the mayhem. Are you one of them?

A CTO once told me: “Our vulnerability scans show green, so we’re confident.” We ran a manual VAPT. Within hours, we uncovered: • A forgotten API endpoint • Logic bypass in payment refunds • Token replay attack on sessions His face dropped: “But… the scanner didn’t show this.” That’s the point. Attackers don’t use scanners. They use creativity. And that’s exactly what manual VAPT brings. At KLEAP Technologies, we don’t trust green reports. We test like attackers. #ManualPentest #APIsecurity #RealWorldSecurity

Watch Out for Modern Tech Support Scams Think you can spot a tech support scam? Today’s fraudsters are using everything from spoofed caller ID to manipulated search results. Here’s what to watch for and how to stay safe. Read More: https://lnkd.in/eKVAUNY

Watch Out for Modern Tech Support Scams Think you can spot a tech support scam? Today’s fraudsters are using everything from spoofed caller ID to manipulated search results. Here’s what to watch for and how to stay safe. Read More: https://lnkd.in/gUM3SpkZ

You may have seen the term KeeLoq rolling code in reference to transmitters and receivers... but what does it actually mean and how does it work? 🤔 A rolling code system encrypts the data sent between the transmitter and receiver so they can share passwords securely. This makes it far harder for attackers to intercept or guess the code 👌 KeeLoq rolling code utilises a 66-bit transmission code, of which 32 bits are encrypted. KeeLoq uses a 66-bit transmission code, with 32 bits encrypted. That encrypted portion alone offers nearly 4 billion possible code combinations, which would take around 17 years to scan by brute force! It prevents attackers from simply recording a valid signal and replaying it later to unlock a door or gate. Read more about it here: https://zurl.co/aRzO

As big companies become more frequent victims of cyber-attacks, here’s what you can do, from changing passwords to using two-step authentication.

Ever tried doing incident response blindfolded? If you need to figure out what happened on a remote machine you can’t directly access, collecting evidence can be… painful, especially if the user isn’t IT-literate. So I built a small utility that grabs the essentials from the system and browsers, then bundles everything into a single ZIP. I called it badforensic because any real forensics expert will (rightly) point out it isn’t strict, court-grade DFIR. It’s quick triage. But in most cases, that’s enough to understand what happened. Repo’s here: https://lnkd.in/gsgxu2B6