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PRIVATELOG, a new malware that leverages Common Log File System (CLFS) to avoid detection

Security Affairs

It was introduced with Windows Server 2003 R2 and included in later Windows operating systems. ” reads the analysis published by Mandiant. “Rules to detect CLFS containers matching PRIVATELOG structures or containing encrypted data are also provided. ” concludes Mandiant.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

M]uch of InfoSec management falls back on employee training and avoiding employee error – particularly with respect to phishing , spear phishing, and encryption lapses.”. A] lot of companies [still] do the compliance auditing and analysis piece manually,” said Luria. See the Best Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees.

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Does artificial intelligence mean artificial security?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Are your AI plans supported by an encryption strategy? The firm’s AI team says the software contains encryption. However, in this scenario where are the encryption keys? It’s important to understand that encryption will affect data in other related applications and processes as well. Are they encrypting it?

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Buran ransomware-as-a-service continues to improve

Security Affairs

The completion of some processes to free open files (optional, negotiated); The ability to encrypt files without changing extensions (optional); Removing recovery points + cleaning logs on a dedicated server (optional); Standard options: tapping, startup, self-deletion (optional); Installed protection against launch in the CIS segment.

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WINTRIAGE: THE TRIAGE TOOL FOR WINDOWS DFIRERS

Security Affairs

With them, I acquired Windows artifacts on dozens of incidents for further analysis in laboratory machines. This is useful in case the volume is encrypted, so the physical image could be more complicated to be processed later. Those tools are great, but the extracted info is not always enough. WHAT IS WINTRIAGE ABLE TO?

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

It covers seven security domains: security operations and administration; access controls ; risk identification, monitoring and analysis; incident response and recovery; cryptography ; network and communications security; and systems and application security. A variety of training options are available, both online and in person.

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[SI-LAB] FlawedAmmyy Leveraging Undetected XLM Macros as an Infection Vehicle

Security Affairs

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. For more details on this finding see the Technical Analysis below. Technical Analysis. Figure 5: Microsoft Excel 97-2003 version identified. macro technology.