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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

On February 24, the National Security Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) publicly warned that a threat actor had exploited a national documents circulation system (SEI EB) to distribute malicious documents to Ukrainian public authorities. Domestic Kitten is a threat group mainly known for its mobile backdoors.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Gentle Art of Lockpicking

ForAllSecure

We're reaching in into a spec normally you couldn't reach with your fingers and moving those pins in a way, normally the manufacturer wouldn't want them moved without the proper key. The idea, as in any security defense is to sufficiently frustrate an attacker so he or she will go elsewhere. That's pretty easy to do.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Gentle Art of Lockpicking

ForAllSecure

We're reaching in into a spec normally you couldn't reach with your fingers and moving those pins in a way, normally the manufacturer wouldn't want them moved without the proper key. The idea, as in any security defense is to sufficiently frustrate an attacker so he or she will go elsewhere. That's pretty easy to do.

Hacking 52