The History of the Barcode
TD Bank, one of the largest financial institutions in the U.S., has agreed to pay a record $3 billion penalty, the largest ever under the Bank Secrecy Act, after pleading guilty to felony charges.
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The energetic cost of allostasis and allostatic load
Chronic psychosocial stress increases disease risk and mortality, but the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear. Here we outline an energy-based model for the transduction of chronic stress into disease over time
Read MoreEuropean diplomats targeted by SPIKEDWINE with WINELOADER
This PDF file is masqueraded as an invitation letter from the Ambassador of India, inviting diplomats to a wine-tasting event in February 2024. The PDF also included a link to a fake questionnaire that redirects users to a malicious ZIP archive hosted on a compromised site, initiating the infection chain.
Read MoreStonefly: The Ongoing Wave of Extortion Attacks Targeting U.S. Entities
Stonefly’s custom malware Backdoor.Preft (aka Dtrack, Valefor) was deployed. This tool is exclusively associated with the group. In addition to this, several Stonefly indicators of compromise recently documented by Microsoft were found on the compromised networks.
Read MoreYouTube Is Rolling Out a Bunch of New (and Free) Features
Sometimes it pays to be a paid subscriber, as when YouTube releases a batch of new features for those who subscribe to Premium—leaving out those of us who use the platform for free. But today, we're all benefitting: The company's latest roundup of new features and changes applies to all YouTube users, both free and Premium, including one feature that was previous available exclusively to paid subs
Read More[Tutorial] Malware and cryptography 31: CAST-128 payload encryption. Simple C example.
This post is the result of my own research on using CAST-128 block cipher on malware development. As usual, exploring various crypto algorithms, I decided to check what would happen if we apply this to encrypt/decrypt the payload.
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