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Microsoft’s case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days

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‘We want to stop this hemorrhaging,’ an official would later say,” states DART case study report. The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 258

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The best news of the week with Security Affairs. addresses two zero-days exploited in the wild Microsofts case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days New Coronavirus-themed campaign spread Lokibot worldwide. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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How Secure Are Bitcoin Wallets, Really?

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Purchasers of Bitcoin wallets usually have one priority topping their lists: security. What’s the truth about the security of these wallets? So, the companies behind those wallets wisely emphasize why their products are more secure than what competitors offer and why that’s the case. About the author.

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MITRE evaluates Enterprise security products using the ATT&CK Framework

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The MITRE Corporation’s ATT&CK framework has been used to evaluate the efficiency of several enterprise security products designed by several vendors. In the first phase, MITRE offered the possibility to evaluate the service and its efficiency on a case study on APT3/Gothic Panda cyber espionage group. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malicious PDF Analysis

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” Let’s go to our case study: I received a scan request for a PDF file that was reported to support an antivirus vendor, and it replied that the file was not malicious. Most security tools must always be adapted to this new reality of attack and infection. About the author : Zoziel Freire. Twitter: [link].

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Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack

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This week, Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. Mitsubishi Electric disclosed the security incident only after two local newspapers, the Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei , reported the security breach. SP1 for Windows. ” reported ZDNet.

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Duo Security created open tools and techniques to identify large Twitter botnet

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Researchers at security firm Duo Security have created a set of open source tools and disclosed techniques that could be used to identify large Twitter botnet. Security experts from Duo Security have developed a collection of open source tools and disclosed techniques that can be useful in identifying large Twitter botnet.