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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

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The purpose of the script is to optimize the mining module by querying the information about the CPU through the reading of the “ /proc/cpu ” and when the manufacturer is retrieved the script provides to add some specific registry values depending by the vendor through the Model-Specific Register utility “ wrmsr ”. This is the “ Stage 1 ”.

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Exclusive: MalwareMustDie analyzes a new IoT malware dubbed Linux/ AirDropBot

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Don’t know if is because I have asked to my friend unixfreaxjp many times to publicly show how Radare r2 can be be used with great results, but after this post we can definitively state that, once again, Radare r2 has nothing to envy of the best commercial tools used in many reverse engineering tutorials that are available on Youtube.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Definition, Threats & Protections 10 Network Security Threats Everyone Should Know Overall Network Security Best Practices Best practices for network security directly counter the major threats to the network with specific technologies and controls. For a more general overview consider reading: What is Network Security?