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Archive for October 10th, 2024

The state of malware today: From Highly Obfuscated Batch File to XWorm and Redline – SANS Internet Storm Center

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10

A very interesting read, where it keeps me wondering how batch files like these are being generated (making them by hand feels very surreal): [Wayback/Archive] From Highly Obfuscated Batch File to XWorm and Redline – SANS Internet Storm Center

VirusTotal entry: [Wayback/Archive] VirusTotal – File – 453c017e02e6ce747d605081ad78bf210b3d0004a056d1f65dd1f21c9bf13a9a

The day after the article was written, only Kaspersky and ZoneAlarm detected it; in the past ZoneAlarm used the Kaspersky engine, but that stopped a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus Review | PCMag.

The malware uses at least these technologies:

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Posted in Antivirus, Batch-Files, Development, Power User, PowerShell, Python, Scripting, Security, Software Development, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

Thread by @troyhunt: the Internet Archive was breached, DDoSed and defaced – reset your passwords (it’s the same account as for their Wayback Machine)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10

was it a little more than a DDoS?

Despite messages of the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine were fully up again after the DDoS in the last few days (usually starting at around 20:00 UTC, lasting for hours at a time, but today at 10:00 UTC), countermeasures of their password breach at the end of September and defacement yesterday, today they still had Wayback Machine archiving issues:

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Posted in Internet, InternetArchive, Power User, Security, WayBack machine | Tagged: , , | Leave a Comment »

Documentation should be easily searchable (No documentation | CommitStrip)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10

Nowadays software development documentation is usually sparse and distributed, which means it should be well searchable.

[Wayback/Archive] No documentation | CommitStrip

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, documentation, Event, Software Development | Leave a Comment »