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Cyber Scarecrow

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606 points toby_tw | 1 comments | 18 Jun 24 08:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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scosman ◴[18 Jun 24 08:25 UTC] No.40715334[source]▶
Fun concept.

If the creators read this, I suggest some ways of building trust. There’s no “about us”, no GitHub link, etc. It’s a random webpage that wants my personal details, and sends me a “exe”. The overlap of people who understand what this tool does, and people who would run that “exe” is pretty small.

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CyberScarecrow ◴[18 Jun 24 08:55 UTC] No.40715473[source]▶
Author of cyber scarecrow here. Thank you for your feedback, and you are 100% right. We also dont have a code signing certificate yet either, they are expensive for windows. Smartscreen also triggers when you install it. Id be weary of installing it myself as well, especially considering it runs as admin, to be able to create the fake indicators.

I have just added a bit of info about us on the website. I'm not sure what else we can do really. Its a trust thing, same with any software and AV vendors.

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1. px43 ◴[18 Jun 24 15:34 UTC] No.40719030[source]▶
Obviously this should be an open source tool that people can build for themselves. If you want to sell premium services or upgrades for it later, you need to have an open/free tier as well.

Also are you aware of the (very awesome) EDR evasion toolkit called scarecrow? Naming stuff is hard, I get that, but this collision is a bit much IMO.

https://github.com/Tylous/ScareCrow