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Targeted operation against Ukraine exploited 7-year-old MS Office bug

Security Affairs

It’s a PPSX file, seemingly an outdated US Army manual for tank mine clearing blades (MCB). The payload includes a dynamic-link library (vpn.sessings) that injects the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike Beacon into memory and awaits commands from the C2 server. Threat actors used a cracked version of Cobalt Strike.

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A brief history of data and how it helped change the world

Collibra

Cloud storage, text mining and social network analytics are vital 21 st century tools. King Ptolemy I Soter set about creating the largest collection of data (then) known to man, an institution known as the Library of Alexandria. . As a result, military medical care was reformed. . Data collection is what we do.

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Sergeant Dennis Fisher and Marine Corps Combat Photography in Vietnam

Unwritten Record

Upon graduation everyone was assigned a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and sent off to train for it. Mine was 0311 which was an infantry rifleman, and I was sent off for advanced infantry training. Such copies can be sent to the Still Picture Branch or the Library, National Archives and Records Administration.

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EP 49: LoL

ForAllSecure

It's a sneaky way to exploit a system without any of the existing preventative tools. The system has already given you the tools that you need. And what they'll do is they'll use a legitimate program that depends on the library, bring malicious libraries with them, they get something sideways.