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France: the CNIL has released its annual dawn raid Program for 2023: four national priorities and one priority coming from the EDPB!

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

As a reminder, in 2022, the CNIL priority topics were (i) direct marketing (ii) monitoring telework and (iii) the use of cloud computing (see our previous post ). This document provides guidance on the conditions applicable to the use of this technology which presents high risks to the data subjects’ right to privacy.

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Using Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper

Security Affairs

In the beginning, the Microsoft Powerpoint presentation looked like a white blank page but performing a very interesting and hidden connection to hxxps://a.doko.moe/wraeop.sct. The script downloads a file named: AZZI.exe and saves it by a new name: VRE1wEh9j0mvUATIN3AqW1HSNnyir8id.exe on a System temporary directory for running it.

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

Security Affairs

As usually, I am not going to show you who was able to detect it compared to the one who wasn’t, since I won’t ending on wrong a declaration such as (for example): “Marco said that X is better than Y” Anyway, having the hash file I believe it would be enough to search for such information. AntiVirus Coverage.

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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.

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

eDiscovery Daily

We also frequently see productions that don’t have the corresponding metadata fields to aid in filtering and searching the production sets, but then counsel becomes frustrated when they can’t accurately search for dates, recipients, file names or other useful metadata fields. So, what seems to be the problem?