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Exclusive: Pro-Russia group ‘Cyber Spetsnaz’ is attacking government agencies

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(USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups conducted by a new group called “Cyber Spetsnaz”. Following the attacks of the Killnet Collective, the group responsible for the attacks against major government resources and law enforcement, a new group has been identified called “Cyber Spetsnaz”.

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6 Best Threat Intelligence Feeds to Use in 2023

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Threat intelligence feeds are continually updated streams of data that inform users of different cybersecurity threats, their sources, and any infrastructure impacted or at risk of being impacted by those threats. The massive, crowdsourced approach OTX takes limits the possibility of effective quality assurance.

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

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Today I want to share a quick analysis on a new leaked APT34 Tool in order to track similarities between APT34 public available toolsets. For example it wraps up a file called Year.txt including numbers from 1900 to 2020, a file called numspecial.txt including special numbers patterns and special chars patterns, a file called num4.txt

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Writing Your First Bootloader for Better Analyses

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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. This code is the so-called bootloader. After the compiler we need a “linker” (GNU linker is called ld). Used tools.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

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Here, then, is a comprehensive look at ransomware, what it is, how to prevent it, and what to do if you become one of its unfortunate victims. However, Windows hides file extensions by default, allowing a malicious executable such as “evil.doc.exe” to appear to be a Word document called “evil.doc”. Adaptive Monitoring and Tagging.

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Writing Your First Bootloader for Better Analyses

Security Affairs

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. This code is the so-called bootloader. After the compiler we need a “linker” (GNU linker is called ld). Used tools.

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APT34: Glimpse project

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But let’s move on and start a quick analysis on it. The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries. The infection start by propagating a.VBS script called “runner_.vbs” Source: MISP Project ). It is not a TXT request.