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Why Does Production Have to be Such a Big Production?, Part Three

eDiscovery Daily

Shawn Huston of LSP Data Solutions ( www.lspdata.com ) recently told me that 2/3 of the load files he sees in productions have errors. Remember my previous comment about communication? Encoding: Some programs prefer a certain background computer language. So, what seems to be the problem?

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APT34: Glimpse project

Security Affairs

At this stage we might appreciate two communication ways. One of the most important function is the aa_AdrGen_bb which is the communication manager. It implements the control layer in order to send and to receive control informations such as: commands, bytes received, if the file transfer has been close, and so on and so forth.

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Hacking The Hacker. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy

Security Affairs

My entire “Cyber adventure” began with a simple email within a.ZIP file named “Nuovo Documento1.zip” Stage1 was dropping and executing a brand new PE file named: rEOuvWkRP.exe (sha256: 92f59c431fbf79bf23cff65d0c4787d0b9e223493edc51a4bbd3c88a5b30b05c) using the bitsadmin.exe native Microsoft program.