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Deadglyph, a very sophisticated and unknown backdoor targets the Middle East

Security Affairs

Stealth Falcon is a nation-state actor active since at least 2012, the group targeted political activists and journalists in the Middle East in past campaigns. The attacks have been conducted from 2012 until 2106, against Emirati journalists, activists, and dissidents. .” ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Crooks target Healthcare facilities involved in Coronavirus containment with Ransomware

Security Affairs

doc, which, when opened with a vulnerable application, attempted to deliver a ransomware payload using a known shared Microsoft component vulnerability, CVE-2012-0158.” . “The emails all contained a malicious Rich Text Format (RTF) phishing lure with the file name 20200323- sitrep -63- covid -19. ” continues the analysis.

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

Security Affairs

File name: control MD5: c4463d6ae741d4fb789bd0895fafebee SHA1: c8866ca1012dfabf5ad131cfeea0036dacb433e6 Creation time: 2012-09-21 09:56:09 First submission on VT: 2019-02-19 23:26:41. This temp file is the Ammyy RAT encrypted file, which will be decrypted and renamed at a later stage ( wsus.exe ). dll library). dll this case).

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How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks

eSecurity Planet

For SQLi purposes, this means keeping all web application software components, including database server software, frameworks, libraries, plug-ins, and web server software, up to date. . Encryption: Keep Your Secrets Secret. Encryption is almost universally employed as a data protection technique today and for a good reason.

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China-linked APT41 group targets US-Based Research University

Security Affairs

The APT41 has been active since at least 2012, it was involved in both state-sponsored espionage campaigns and financially-motivated attacks since 2014. “HIGHNOON is a backdoor that consists of multiple components, including a loader, dynamic-link library (DLL), and a rootkit. -based research university. into memory.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. it was a multiple directory traversal vulnerability within GNU C Library that allows attackers to hack into git servers provided they were able to upload files there.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. it was a multiple directory traversal vulnerability within GNU C Library that allows attackers to hack into git servers provided they were able to upload files there.