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Gootkit delivery platform Gootloader used to deliver additional payloads

Security Affairs

When the visitor clicks on the link provided by the search engine, they are redirected to landing pages that answer their exact questions, using the same wording as the search query. file is the initial infector, and the only stage of the infection at which a malicious file is written to the filesystem.

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Intelligent Search – Strategies to Find What You Need

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In this post, we’ll explore the challenges of inefficient search and talk about some ways to improve. Does Your Organization Have a Search Problem? Let’s take a look at some data points about information inefficiency from Cottrill Research: “According to a McKinsey report, employees spend 1.8 hours every day—9.3

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Multiple threat actors are targeting Elasticsearch Clusters

Security Affairs

These attacks leverage CVE-2014-3120 and CVE-2015-1427, both of which are only present in old versions of Elasticsearch and exploit the ability to pass scripts to search queries.” ” This behavior has been seen in elastic search error logs going back several years. ” reads the analysis published by Talos.