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Russia-linked APT28 uses COVID-19 lures to deliver Zebrocy malware

Security Affairs

The threat actors used lures consisted of documents about Sinopharm International Corporation, a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine and that is currently going through phase three clinical trials. The malware also attempts to download and execute a payload from the C2 it.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , Megatraffer has been active on more than a half-dozen crime forums from September 2009 to the present day. The document also says Fitis got paid using a WebMoney account that was created when its owner presented a valid Russian passport for a Konstantin Evgenievich Fetisov , born Nov.

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Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

Security Affairs

The command should be presented as one of the following symbols: «b», «e», «l», «n», «r». Group-IB Threat Hunting Framework Huntpoint detecting abnormal activity caused by Hancitor Data received from C2 server is base64-encoded and XORed with 0x7A. After decoding and decrypting, the received command is checked.

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AI Use in Drug Discovery

Data Matters

Together, they discuss the challenges and opportunities AI presents for the pharmaceutical industry, particularly how AI is accelerating the pace of drug discovery and its implications for the future of medicine. Join “State of the Art” host and Sidley partner Stephen Abreu as he speaks with Colin Hill , CEO and Co-Founder of Aitia.

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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach

Troy Hunt

One last comment: there was a story published earlier this year titled Our Investigation of the Pure Incubation Ventures Leak and in there they refer to "encrypted passwords" being present in the data.

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MY TAKE: Why ‘basic research’ is so vital to bringing digital transformation to full fruition

The Last Watchdog

Biomedical engineer Dr. Joe Alexander, the former medical director at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, grabbed a distinguished scientist post, as well. Each key, in turn, can be configured to enable access to a dataset only under certain conditions, i.e. if certain attributes are present.

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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Sahai recently gave this presentation outlining the technical aspects. That’s the type of problem that these specialty quantum computers can solve.” Another exciting NTT Research project is headed by Dr. Joe Alexander the former medical director at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.