Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Anthem”) following Anthem’s 2015 data breach. Three years ago, in February 2015, OCR opened a compliance review of Anthem, the nation’s second largest health insurer, following media reports that Anthem had suffered a significant cyberattack. prevent unauthorized access to ePHI.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The evidence comes from traffic analysis where the identified pattern sends (HTTP POST) data on browser history and specifically crafted files under User – AppData to specific PHP pages. Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for the malicious code are reported in the original analysis published by Marco Ramilli in his blog.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

A few hours ago, I have written about an interesting analysis of the possible hack of avionics systems, not DHS warns of cyber attacks against small airplanes. The CAN is a crucial component in vehicles and aircraft that allows data and signaling information to be’ exchanged between the onboard computer systems. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today I’d like to share a quick analysis resulted by a very interesting email which claimed to deliver a SOC “weekly report” on the victim email. Technical Analysis. Analysis of dropped and executed file (emotet). I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2019

The analysis of the content of the USB drive allowed the authorities to identify the man. the police raided his house and investigated into his computer and electronic devices revealing a long cybercrime activity. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

So, I came up with this blog post and this GitHub repository where I proposed a new testing-set based on a modified version of Malware Instruction Set for Behavior-Based Analysis , also referred as MIST. The original post along many other interesting analysis are available on the Marco Ramilli blog: [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2018

” reads the analysis published by TG Soft. According to a technical report published by the experts, this attack and the one against Russian service centers offering maintenance and support for various electronic goods started in the same period, in March. . “TG Soft’s Research Centre (C.R.A.M.)

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

UMass did not have firewalls in place to guard against unauthorized access to ePHI transmitted over an electronic communications network. UMass did not conduct an accurate and thorough risk analysis until September 2015. Train staff who have access to ePHI on the revised policies and procedures.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, it allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. ” reads the analysis published by Positive Technologies. Further technical details, including IoCs are reported in the analysis shared by the experts. ” reads one of the alerts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

This is not going to be a full path analysis so If you are interested in a more complete one, including dissection steps on final payloads, please refer to some of my previous analysis ( HERE , HERE , HERE ) or to Yoroi’s Blog. If you are interested on follow a full detailed analysis path, please take a look to Yoroi’s Blog.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

The expert focused the analysis on the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus implements by two commercially available avionics systems from aircraft manufacturers who specialize in light aircraft. However, electronic controls for flaps, trim, engine controls, and autopilot systems are becoming more common,” explained Kiley.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

“A former Seattle technology company software engineer was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging computer fraud and abuse for an intrusion on the stored data of Capital One Financial Corporation, announced U.S. Thompson was charged with computer fraud and abuse in U.S. Attorney Brian T. “PAIGE A.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

While the second side of the conditional branch is quite a normal behavior match "VirtualBox|VMware|KVM" ,which tries to avoid the execution on virtual environments (trying to avoid detection and analysis), the first side is quite interesting. But let’s move on the analysis. GET-UICulture).Name About the author Marco Ramilli.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Today I’d like to share an interesting analysis of a Targeted Attack found and dissected by Yoroi (technical details are available here ). A quick analysis of the Stage2 exposes a new object inclusion. (as For IoC please visit the analysis from here. Stage2: OleOBj inclusion (click to expand it).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Security researcher Marco Ramilli presents a comparative analysis of attacks techniques adopted by the Iran-Linked OilRig APT group. Today I’d like to share a comparative analysis of OilRig techniques mutation over time. The original post and other interesting analysis are published on the Marco Ramilli’s blog: [link].

e-Delivery 79

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

For this reason I believe it would be interesting to understand how MBR works and how is it possible to write a boot loader program, this skill will help you during the analysis of your next Boot Loader Malware. When you press the power button you are providing the right power to every electronic chips who needs it. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The analysis of a malicious email revealed a possible raising interest of the TA505 cybercrime gang in system integrator companies. The domain was protected by a Panama company to hide its real registrant and this condition rang a warning bell on the suspected email so that it required a manual analysis in order to investigate its attachment.

Computer and Electronics 42

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Today I’d like to share a simple analysis based on a fascinating threat that I like to call Sustes (you will see name genesis in a bit). In this scenario, it is used to make money at the expense of computer users by abusing the infected computer to mine Monero, a cryptocurrency. XMRIG prove 1.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Later in that decade, Frederick Terman returned to Stanford from Harvard as dean of the engineering school and encouraged the development of electronics in local businesses. Kleiner was the founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Perkins was an early Hewlett-Packard computer division manager.) According to the U.S.

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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. All messages sent via email contain FinCERT’s electronic signature.”. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

During the analysis time, only really few Antivirus (6 out of 60) were able to “detect” the sample. The attacker enumerates 571 possible analysis tools that should not be present on the target machine (Victim). reg) analysis program. Multiple programming styles have been found during the analysis path.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Obfuscation comes to make the analysis harder and harder, but once you overcome that stage you would probably see a VBA code looking like the following one. In your next VBA Macro analysis keep in mind those stereotypes and speed up your analysis. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

For this reason I believe it would be interesting to understand how MBR works and how is it possible to write a boot loader program, this skill will help you during the analysis of your next Boot Loader Malware. When you press the power button you are providing the right power to every electronic chips who needs it. Pierluigi Paganini.

Computer and Electronics 41

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Should privacy be considered a “burden” under the proportionality analysis required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26(b)? The 2015 amendments to Rule 26(b)(1), however, were meant to resolve any doubt, returning the proportionality factors to their original place as part of the very definition of what is discoverable.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 8, 2018

Peck ordered the defendants “to revise their Responses to comply with the Rules”, specifically Rule 34(b)(2)(B) and Rule 34(b)(2)(C), amended in December 2015 requiring objections to be stated with specificity and directing that an objection must state whether any responsive materials are being withheld on the basis of that objection.

Metadata 44

Metadata Computer and Electronics Sales Education 44

Information is Currency

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The challenge isn’t just managing electronic records, but non-records, content and other data as all information needs to be governed because all information provides risk because of many factors such as e-discovery, data breaches and so much more. This book is primarily about digital disruption and how to be prepared for it.

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eDiscovery Daily

APRIL 11, 2018

The problem became so acute that by 2015 , according to a 2016 ACEDS News Article , Maura Grossman and Gordon Cormack trademarked the terms “Continuous Active Learning” and “CAL”, claiming those terms’ first commercial use on April 11, 2013 and January 15, 2014. Marketing: the simple fact is that some vendors sell predictive coding tools.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

But if you wonder why I decided to keep them separated on such personal and preliminary analysis you could find the answer in the reason in why they do attack. In this post I wrote a preliminary and personal analysis of threat actors attributed by the community to Iran, comparing TTPs coming from MITRE and relations extracted from Malpedia.

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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

MAY 3, 2020

Again, there is no filter and no post-processing analysis in that fields, by meaning you could probably find as TOP domain “google.com” or “microsoft update”, which is fine, since if the sample queried them before performing its malicious intent, well, it is simply recorded and took to your attention. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Analysis ) where unknown attackers were targeting Italian naval industries. The analysis was cited by Kaspersky’s ICS CERT who exposed a wider threat extension across multiple countries such as: Germany, Spain, and India. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) comprises a set of systems-management technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments. Taking it on static analysis it will expose three callable functions: DeleteOfficeData ( 0x10001020 ), GetOfficeData ( 0x10001000 ) and EntryPoint 0x100015ac ). neighboring[.]site/01/index.php.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

The original post and other interesting analysis are published on the Marco Ramilli’s blog: [link]. 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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2018

Today I’d like to share a full path analysis including a KickBack attack which took me to gain full access to an entire Ursniff/Gozi botnet. The Stage2 analysis (huge step ahead here) brought me to an additional brand new Drop and Decrypt stager. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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