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Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection

Security Affairs

Malware researcher and founder of Yoroi Marco Ramill described a step-by-step procedure that shows how to dissect an Office dropper. Both of those tricks are quite well-known in the malware industry. From here you might decide to extract the dropper websites and block them on your firewall/proxy/etc.

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Malware researcher reverse engineered a threat that went undetected for at least 2 years

Security Affairs

The popular malware researchers Marco Ramilli has analyzed a malware that remained under the radar for more than two years. The first thought that you might have as an experienced malware reverse engineer would be: “Ok, another bytecode reversing night, easy. Resource (a.k.a package in where it will be contextualized).

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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Controls can be anything from good password hygiene to web application firewalls and internal network segmentation, a layered approach that reduces risk at each step. Web application scanners test your websites and web-facing apps for vulnerabilities. These tests typically use vulnerability scanners. The issue led U.S.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab.

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Hacking The Hacker. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy

Security Affairs

In other words: from a simple “Malware Sample” to “Pwn the Attacker Infrastructure” NB: Federal Police have already been alerted on such a topic as well as National and International CERTs/CSIRT (on August 26/27 2018). I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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