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How Ursnif Evolves to Keep Threatening Italy

Security Affairs

This layer is quite different because it contains a junk-char enriched hexadecimal code, actually XOR encrypted with the 0x52 key. Figure 4: Ursnif loader communication. In this case, the steganography technique is not the same as the one seen in the other branch, in fact the malware also uses a layer of the AES encryption.

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[SI-LAB] FlawedAmmyy Leveraging Undetected XLM Macros as an Infection Vehicle

Security Affairs

The first port is used to maintain communications between C2 and clients. OLE files are hierarchical data structures that have several storages and streams (in contrast to folders and files in an operating system). Figure 8 below shows the structure of the xls file. The C2 server used by crooks is now offline.

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The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Blockchains are unique from other distributed ledger types due to their data structure, sequence, power needs, real-life implementation, and the use of tokens. Since the 1970s, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has offered encryption , authentication, bootstrapping, and digital signatures to secure digital communications.

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From U2F to passkeys

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The credential ID that they return is actually an encrypted seed that allows the security key to regenerate the private key as needed. So the security key has a single root key that it uses to encrypt generated seeds, and those encrypted seeds are the credential IDs. Connecting U2F to the web FIDO defined a web API for U2F.