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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

AIIM

Often, you can make some good initial decisions right away by examining things like file name, path name, and file extensions before you attempt to migrate, read, or index the content itself. Sift and Aggregate: With so much information to manage, it can help to reduce the chaos.

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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.