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Security Firm Tries to Silence Critic Using Questionable DMCA Notice
SiteLock, a web security firm, has sent two DMCA notices to rival White Fir Design and asked the former to remove two images of the SiteLock homepage from two article that criticized its web security services. The article where the first…
The article where the first image was used is named "SiteLock Labels Website as Secure Despite Being Very Dangerous For Visitors" and contains harsh criticism of SiteLock after the company had displayed a "SiteLock Secure" badge on a malicious website.
White Fir Design staff discovered that the website where the badge was displayed, a Magento e-commerce store, contained malicious code to scrape and steal data from the checkout forms.
One image was used to make fun of SiteLock
White Fir's team had included a screenshot of SiteLock's homepage, in an attempt to mock their rival for claiming to be "The Global ...
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SOC Incident Playbook: Remote Code Execution (RCE) Defense
title: Detect Exploitation - Security Firm Tries to Silence Critic Using Questionable DMCA Notice
id: 9e828d2a-21b9-4f7e-be93-997c254eb782
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-26
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_accessrule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-26"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "Security Firm Tries to Silence" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("Security Firm Tries to Silence Critic Us")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - countmessage: "*Security Firm Tries to Silence Critic Us*"CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "Security Firm Tries to Silence Critic Us"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
| sort by EventCount desc2. Cyber Threat Intelligence & Forensik
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