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To Fix DMARC Requires Angry Customers

eSecurity Planet

After all, accounts payable clerks will open virus-laden PDF files named “overdue invoice” or “past-due statement” even if they don’t recognize the sender. Afraid of the possibility of rejection for their marketing emails, an impersonated organization will be conservative and simply avoid enforcing DMARC.

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6 Best Threat Intelligence Feeds to Use in 2023

eSecurity Planet

FBI InfraGard Best for critical infrastructure security InfraGard is a threat intelligence feed and network partnership between the FBI and other government agencies and interested private sector parties. Cons One of the most expensive threat intelligence feeds on the market, and prices continue to go up. critical infrastructure.

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Mekel 2.0 Adds Features for Maximum Production Efficiencies

Info Source

. · OCR title naming (all models) : The optical character recognition (OCR) function recognizes title bar (microfiche) or title image (microfilm) text. MEKEL TECHNOLOGY FIRST ON MARKET. In 1987, Mekel Technology was the first company in the world to design, manufacture and market a production-level microfilm scanner.

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New release of Lampion trojan spreads in Portugal with some improvements on the VBS downloader

Security Affairs

Lampion was first documented in December 2019 , and it was distributed in Portugal via phishing emails using templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. Here, it was distributed using fake webpages, where the victim downloaded an MSI file, which then held the remaining Lampion infection chain. Final Thoughts.

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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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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

Mr. Hall encourages more consultation between the government and the small business community. It also includes a summary of indicators of compromise (IOCs), such as unique command-line strings, hashes, file paths, exploitation of certain vulnerabilities, and file names commonly used by this actor.