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Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

Security Affairs

These malware strains did not present any similarities with malware associated with other APT groups. A deeper analysis of some of these samples revealed that they were compiled in 2014 and used in the wild between 2014 and 2015. According to the firm, the US cyber spies are targeting various industry sectors and government agencies.

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Trojan Lampion is back after 3 months

Security Affairs

Trojan Lampion is a malware observed at the end of the year 2019 impacting Portuguese users using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax and EDP. Below, the email templates on how Lampion has been distributed in May 2020 in Portugal are presented. Lampion email templates – May 2020. SAPO TRANSFER TEMPLATE.

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Using Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper

Security Affairs

Marco Ramilli, founder and CEO at cyber security firm Yoroi has explained how to use Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper. Nowadays Microsoft office documents are often used to propagate Malware acting like dynamic droppers. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Stage 3: NET file.

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Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments: Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later

Security Affairs

We noticed that the TTP of the group is almost the same leveraging a weaponized document with a fake certificate of request of an Indian public fund. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ). Figure 1: Piece of the malicious document employed in the Op.

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A new trojan Lampion targets Portugal

Security Affairs

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. zip file not found and a popup message is presented.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

The 2015 amendments to Rule 26(b)(1), however, were meant to resolve any doubt, returning the proportionality factors to their original place as part of the very definition of what is discoverable. 19 No longer are the proportionality considerations described as separate “limitations” on an inquiry governed solely by relevance.20

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Cyber-Criminal espionage Operation insists on Italian Manufacturing

Security Affairs

This actor was first spotted by PaloAlto’s UNIT42 in 2018 during wide scale operations against technology, retail, manufacturing, and local government industries in the US, Europe and Asia. All campaigns used as the initial stage an office document (PowerPoint or Excel) armed with macro and some of them used injection methods.