Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

There are many ways to spot Advanced Persistent Threats, for example during a forensic analysis on “high rate incident” or having sandbox systems on critical infrastructures or again working as incident responder for big companies, working into a national CERT or building a simple tool performing analysis on Malware streams.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

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. For example bots pushing “interesting links” back online even after months of inactivity. 1) Old content revamping.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

For example it wraps up a file called Year.txt including numbers from 1900 to 2020, a file called numspecial.txt including special numbers patterns and special chars patterns, a file called num4.txt Even if the code language is different the similarity in the basic exception prevention from Jason and -for example- the “ ICAP.py

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

But we have many teaching processes, for example we have Universities teaching process which is mainly based on scientific evidences, Certifications teaching process which is mainly focused on procedures and tool sets, Camp teaching process which is mainly focused on relational approach (a.k.a Section 4: The ignorance.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

For example for i in */.json; 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. The creation process follows those steps: Upload the samples into a running CuckooSanbox patched with mist_json.py

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Sustes (Mr.sh) is a nice example of Pirate-Mining and even if it’s hard to figure out its magnitude, since the attacker built-up private pool-proxies, I believe it’s interesting to fix wallet address in memories and to share IoC for future Protection. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

A simple example. Mostly spread over COVID#19 malspam for example: SecurityAffairs , BankInfoSecurity , ThreatPOST , FortiNet. 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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Cybersecurity Community Clinics Europe could follow the example of what is happening in the United States, where the possibility of creating a cybersecurity emergency number is already being discussed, with plans to establish cybersecurity clinics at public and private universities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services. Miller was charged this week with conspiracy and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The DOJ also charged six U.S. The booter service OrphicSecurityTeam[.]com com and royalstresser[.]com Defendant Angel Manuel Colon Jr.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. This system runs on an IBM Series/1 Computer—a 1970s computing system— and uses 8-inch floppy disks.” “Any electronic repair is going to take a lot of work.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Some domain names and some IPs are used as configuration example. Personally I always find interesting to see the attacker suggested examples, since they lets a marked flavour of her. For example the parsing function looks for the following “form names”: logins = ['login', 'log-in', 'log_in', 'signin', 'sign-in', 'logon', 'log-on'].

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

For example the function aa_ping_response_bb would compose an encoded DNS message ( aa_text_response_bb ) which sends it own last IP address. The following image shows a running example of the infection chain run on a controlled virtual environment.You might appreciate the communication layers over the requested domains. 10100*9056 **.33333210100A[.]example[.]com.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

For example it deletes the original file once executed, it resolves an unusual very high number of APIs and it dynamically resolves functions avoiding static analysis. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Emotet Depacked. MITRE ATT&CK. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The emails were disguised to look as if they come from the Central Bank of Russia and FinCERT, the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team. In March 2016, for example, cybercriminals sent phishing emails from info@fincert.net. All messages sent via email contain FinCERT’s electronic signature.”.

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AIIM

MAY 11, 2021

Let's take a typical example. Each activity on the list above is an activity that was prohibited in many organizations long before the computer arrived. The words in a typewritten paper memorandum that can bully a co-worker, aren't those the same words we worry about in electronic messages? But are they necessary?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

If the current date is less or equals to 0x7E1 it ends up by skipping the real behavior while if the current date is, for example, 2018, it runs its behavior by calling “0xEAX” (typical control flow redirection on memory crafted). I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

When you press the power button you are providing the right power to every electronic chips who needs it. For example %cx could be: 0x0000if msg is printed, 0x0001 if msg2 is printed, 0x0002 if msg3 is printed and 0x0003 if we want to start the clock printing loop. How the PC boot process works ?

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AIIM

MAY 28, 2020

Using such algorithms can free up entire departments, and certain tasks can then be delegated to automated computer processing. Chatbots are perhaps the most obvious example of automation that directly benefits customer service. Customer Service. This underscores the huge role of data and automation in the world of customer service.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

However, at the same time, common elements impose to not discard the possibility of this relationship, for example, the following indicators are likely suggesting correlations: impersonification of the service provider and satellite companies of the naval industry sector. possible usage of “ Microsoft Word 2013 ”.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 29, 2024

A recent analysis from the IBM Institute for Business Value asked company executives “[…] how they use data to create performance baselines and to understand how applying technologies—for example, cloud, AI, generative AI—might materially improve performance in the parts of the business that generate income.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Some analyzed threats examples include: Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection , Spreading CVS Malware over Google , Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper , MalHIDE , Info Stealing: a New Operation in the Wild , Advanced All in Memory CryptoWorm , etc. Sub RunDLL() DownloadDLL Dim Str As String Str = "C:WindowsSystem32rundll32.exe

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

For example APT34 uses the “real” multi-line, while MuddyWater abuses the multi-line exploiting its auto-escape indirect proprieties. 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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Everteam

APRIL 4, 2019

While everyone is digging deep into the Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain and many other new digital transformation phenomena, Quantum Computing has been transformed from theory to reality. Let’s move to how it’s related to computers. What is Quantum Computing? A Quick Quantum look. Too much physics?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

If so we are facing a state-sponsored group with high capabilities in developing persistence and hidden communication channels (for example over DNS) but without a deep interest in exploiting services. CopyKittens, for example, have been clustered more closed to APT33 while Muddywater looks like clustered straight at the middle of them.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For example from 2017 to early 2018 APT28 used specific techniques such as: T1251 , T1329 , T1336 and T1319. While system persistence could be guaranteed in many different ways, for example by periodically exploiting a RCE vulnerability, persistence in case of Malware attacks is typically named: “Installation”. Weaponization Timeline.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

For example, reshipping scams have over the years become easier for both reshipping mule operators and the mules themselves. After all, dumps are mainly used to buy high-priced items from electronics stores and other outlets that may not even be open now thanks to the widespread closures from the pandemic.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. These prefixes identify different product lines and vendors that use iLnkP2P.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Secret Service. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens. BEGINNINGS.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

For example, when he downloaded and tried to rename the file, the right arrow key on the keyboard moved his cursor to the left, and vice versa. In essence, this is a.eml file — an electronic mail format or email saved in plain text — masquerading as a.PDF file.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

The email allowed the intruders to install malware on the victim’s PC and to compromise a second computer at the bank that had access to the STAR Network , a system run by financial industry giant First Data that the bank uses to handle debit card transactions for customers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

For example, all of the above-mentioned booter sites contained wordy “terms of use” agreements that required customers to agree they will only stress-test their own networks — and that they won’t use the service to attack others. That way, when the DNS servers respond, they reply to the spoofed (target) address.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If ever there were a technology giant that deserved to be named and shamed for polluting the Web, it is Xiongmai — a Chinese maker of electronic parts that power a huge percentage of cheap digital video recorders (DVRs) and Internet-connected security cameras. A rendering of Xiongmai’s center in Hangzhou, China. BLANK TO BANK.

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AIIM

MARCH 4, 2021

Whether paper or electronic, records are often created and related to other records - for example, all personnel files. The bottom line is that by capturing a document, it allows the organization to manage the digital asset much more effectively than if it is simply retained on a file share or on users’ computers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

The term cyber refers, by and large, to the virtual world of ICT, the Internet and computers. For example, during World War I, the US Captain Heber Blankenhorn established (in the War Department) the Propaganda Subsection, that was specifically tasked on carrying out Psychological Operations.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You’re most likely to access data on your work computer or via paper records, but information can be found in many places. For example, data can be held on removable disks, laptops, servers, personal devices and physical records. The second sub-category of information security relates to the protection electronic information.

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Armstrong Archives

APRIL 29, 2022

The terms “digital” and “electronic” are often used interchangeably these days, including when it comes to talking about records management. Digital Vs. Electronic Records – FAQs and Differences. To understand the differences between digital and electronic records, let’s define each of them and look at the uses of each.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 27, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, having high compute power can be critical. Reducing risk in financial services In the world of financial services, having as much compute power as possible is important to help enable peak performance.

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