The whole point of a phishing attack is to fool you into talking with someone who is not who they say they are. If someone sends you a message trying to convince you they're from Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, or McAfee, they're probably lying. If they claim to be from...
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The main goal of this malware, as other ransomware families, is to encrypt your files and then request a payment in return for a decryption tool from the authors or affiliates to decrypt them. The malware sample we researched is a 32-bit binary, with an icon ...
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The purpose of this packet is to let the student client software know where to find the teacher computer on the network. Because this UDP message is sent to all students in a broadcast style and requires no handshake or setup like TCP, this was a good place to start pokin...
This thread’s first action is to create a file called “Favorite” in the same folder as the malware. Later, it will check the last error with “GetLastError” and, if the last error was 0, it will wait with the function “Sleep” for 5 seconds. ...