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Estonian National charged with helping Russia acquire U.S. hacking tools and electronics

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made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. manufacturers on behalf of Russian end-users, including defense contractors and other Russian government agencies.

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Malware Training Sets: FollowUP

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So, I came up with this blog post and this GitHub repository where I proposed a new testing-set based on a modified version of Malware Instruction Set for Behavior-Based Analysis , also referred as MIST. The original post along many other interesting analysis are available on the Marco Ramilli blog: [link].

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Scraping the TOR for rare contents

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First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against the just extracted links. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic.

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Using Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper

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Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for the malicious code are reported in the original analysis published by Marco Ramilli in his blog. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna.

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Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection

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This is not going to be a full path analysis so If you are interested in a more complete one, including dissection steps on final payloads, please refer to some of my previous analysis ( HERE , HERE , HERE ) or to Yoroi’s Blog. If you are interested on follow a full detailed analysis path, please take a look to Yoroi’s Blog.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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billion rubles. billion rubles. Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Is APT27 Abusing COVID-19 To Attack People ?!

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Governments are doing their best to mitigate such a virus while people are stuck home working remotely using their own equipment. Today I want to contribute to such a blog-roll analyzing a new spreading variant that hit my observatory. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.