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Meta Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report Q1 2022. Is it Malicious?

Part-1 — On April 7th 2022, Meta released an “Adversarial Threat Report”, a 274.61kb sized benign-looking pdf file. While none of the antiviruses detected any issues with the pdf file, sandbox analysis uncovered something not apparent to the naked eye. Cyber Threat Intelligence or CTI is a fascinating subject and an ever-growing…

Cyber Threat Intelligence

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Meta Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report Q1 2022. Is it Malicious?

May 23

What is CONTI Ransomware and what do you need to know about it

Author: Samridh Ashish Executive Summary Conti is one of the most relentless ransomware amongst any existing ransomware families. As of 28th Feb 2022, the US and International organisations have seen more than 1,000 attacks since its launch. …

Conti

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Mar 14

Ubisoft hack, March 2022

Following a cyber security incident, video game giant Ubisoft has incited a password reset throughout the company. The official statement from the company is: “Our IT teams are working with leading external experts to investigate the issue. As a precautionary measure, we initiated a company-wide password reset.” Apparently, the hacking…

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Feb 24

Cyberattack on logistics giant Expeditors International

While the year 2017 was not the luckiest year for Maersk because their global operations were hit by NotPetya ransomware. The year 2022 has brought similar bad news for Expeditors International. Expeditors International, a global logistics company, has been forced to shut down a majority of its operations worldwide due…

Ransomware Attack

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Cyberattack on logistics giant Expeditors International

Dec 15, 2021

CTI Report Log4j2 / Log4shell

What is Log4j 2 Log4j2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many of the improvements available in Logback while fixing some inherent problems in Logback’s architecture.[1] Log4j shell vulnerability; Security Vulnerability CVE-2021–44228 A 0-day exploit was released for log4j, a…

Cyber Threat Intelligence

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