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Malware researcher reverse engineered a threat that went undetected for at least 2 years

Security Affairs

During the analysis time, only really few Antivirus (6 out of 60) were able to “detect” the sample. There is an interesting difference although, this stage builds up a new in-memory stage (let’s call Stage 4) by adding static GZIpped contents at the end of encrypted section (light blue tag on image).

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: But as someone who wrote a book questioning the security of our mass produced IoT devices, I wonder why no one bothered to test and certify these devices before they were installed? I mean, on the one hand, we're saying it's a national priority. And on the other hand, we're saying security, that's a secondary concern.

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What Are My Photos Revealing About Me? You may be accidentally sharing personal information in your photos (an important Guest Post)

Architect Security

Tools and techniques that were once available only to intelligence agencies to collect “open source intelligence” (known as OSINT in national security parlance) are now available to amateur sleuths. Law enforcement can definitely do this sort of identification. But metadata is not all you should be thinking about.