Check Point Research (CPR) has spotted an ongoing cyber espionage operation targeting Russian defense research institutes. Attributed to Chinese nation-state threat actors, the operation relies on social engineering techniques, specifically sanction-related baits, to collect sensitive information. The threat...
From the same directory, install the PROTAC named entity recognition (NER) model by running: pip install ./ot_tractability_pipeline_v2/en_NER_PROTAC-0.2.5.tar.gz Install cx-oracle (if an Oracle instance of ChEMBL shall be used) e.g. by running:pip install cx-oracle. Set the following...
The fifth operation is also notable for delivering an alternative to DBoxShell called GraphShell, which is so named for its use of theMicrosoft Graph APIfor C&C purposes. The initial infection phase is followed by the threat actor deploying additional artifacts likengrok,rsockstun(a reverse tun...
The company behind the malware-as-a-service (MaaS) scheme is Gyeongheung (also spelled Gyonghung), a 15-member entity based in Dandong that has allegedly received $5,000 from an unidentified South Korean criminal organization in exchange for creating a single website and $3,000 per month f...
There is as-yet incomplete information regarding the full-range of genetic variants of most GPCRs, including orphan GPCRs, and thus this is likely to remain an area of active research with potential clinical importance. In addition, two aspects of such variants that have not yet been well ...
We have a project on VSTS that has an automated build definition that runs against all pull requests. This build has been working fine until this week when we started getting the following error: prettyprint Error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Reporting Service...
In the presence of the chelating triad, these HID analogues may either compete for the DNA polymerase active site or bind at an unknown site of RT and disturb both the DNA polymerase and RNase H activities. Docking calculations suggested favorable binding of the compounds at the HIV RNase H ...
An increasing body of evidence indicated that platinum-based regimen can be used for BRCA1/2 mutation carriers with TNBC, for whom cancer chemotherapy with anthracycline cannot be performed. However, it should be taken into account that standard chemotherapy is likely to be applied as long as mor...
The United States, France and Britain are probing payments made by an internal entity known as the Strategy and Marketing Organisation (SMO) that may have infringed anti-bribery laws. The inquiry stems from Airbus's disclosure in early 2016 that it had neglected to inform authorities about paymen...
The loader, for its part, reaches out to the website of the breached non-profit entity to fetch the secondary payload, which is a .NET-based keylogger namedAgent Tesla. The backdoor then establishes a connection to an FTP server located in Pakistan to exfiltrate the harvested data, indicatin...