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Rishalin Pillay
Rishalin Pillay
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Rishalin Pillay

Rishalin Pillay is an Offensive Cybersecurity expert who holds a number of awards and certifications from multiple companies in the Cybersecurity industry. He is well known for his contributions to online learning courses related to Red Teaming and as the author of Learn Penetration Testing. He holds Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions made towards the Cybersecurity Industry, including the Events Speaker Gold award for influential public speaking at Tier-1 business events.
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Mohammed Abutheraa
Mohammed Abutheraa
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Mohammed Abutheraa

Mohammed Abutheraa is Cybersecurity specialist who has over 15 years of experience in IT security, risk management, security infrastructure, and technology implementation in both private and public sector environments. He worked as Incident Response and Remediation Advisor and supported customers remediating against major incidents in the last years. He has experience in Threat Intelligence and Proactive Services like Vulnerability Assessments and Red / Purple Teaming experiences.
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Backdoors and Trojan horses

Backdoors and Trojan horses are two very common malware types used to maintain access to the environment. One of the first tasks once access to the environment is established is to ensure the access is kept, and backdoors and Trojan horses are used most of the time to achieve this.

A backdoor is a program or a service that will allow bypassing security controls implemented in the environment – for example, not providing a username or password to get access to a system. On the other hand, Trojan horses are a program or service that looks legitimate and has useful functionality within the system but has hidden functionality. It is named for the historical wooden horse that was used in the Trojan War by the Greeks to enter the city of Troy.

In the previous paragraphs, we talked about backdoors and Trojan horses as separate methods to maintain access. However, both techniques can be used together. When used together, it is called a Trojan horse...

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Rishalin Pillay

Rishalin Pillay is an Offensive Cybersecurity expert who holds a number of awards and certifications from multiple companies in the Cybersecurity industry. He is well known for his contributions to online learning courses related to Red Teaming and as the author of Learn Penetration Testing. He holds Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions made towards the Cybersecurity Industry, including the Events Speaker Gold award for influential public speaking at Tier-1 business events.
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Mohammed Abutheraa

Mohammed Abutheraa is Cybersecurity specialist who has over 15 years of experience in IT security, risk management, security infrastructure, and technology implementation in both private and public sector environments. He worked as Incident Response and Remediation Advisor and supported customers remediating against major incidents in the last years. He has experience in Threat Intelligence and Proactive Services like Vulnerability Assessments and Red / Purple Teaming experiences.
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