• My Weekly Roundup #148

    Cybersecurity Harmful Help: Analyzing a Malicious Compiled HTML Help File Delivering Agent Tesla This blog describes an attack that Unit 42 observed utilizing malicious compiled HTML help files for the initial delivery. We will show how to analyze the malicious… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #147

    Cybersecurity Cobalt Strike Analysis and Tutorial: CS Metadata Encoding and Decoding Cobalt Strike is commercial threat emulation software that emulates a quiet, long-term embedded actor in a network. This actor, known as Beacon, communicates with an external team server to… read more »
  • Fleeting Moment of Truth

    Gather all worries related to pandemics, wars and personal problems, process them, obtain what could be a glimmer of hope for a better tomorrow and put it on the stave. Album cover “Fleeting Moment of Truth”, my new album, is… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #146

    Cybersecurity EmoCheck Tool 2.2 Supports and Detects New 64-bit Variants of Emotet Malware JPCERT/CC, Japan’s first CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team), has released a new version of their open-source tool EmoCheck to identify new 64-bit variants of the Emotet… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #145

    Cybersecurity LemonDuck botnet plunders Docker cloud instances in cryptocurrency crime wave Operators of the LemonDuck botnet are targeting Docker instances in a cryptocurrency mining campaign. LemonDuck is cryptocurrency mining malware wrapped up in a botnet structure. Threat Assessment: BlackByte Ransomware… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #144

    Cybersecurity A DDoS attack took down Finnish govt sites as Ukraine’s President addresses MPs A massive DDoS attack took down Finnish government websites while Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addressed Finland’s members of parliament (MPs). On April 8, a denial-of-service attack took… read more »
  • The History of Electronic Music, part 3: Noises

    For several years now I have been interested in electronic music, so I have decided to publish a series of brief articles in which I try to describe what in my view are decisive steps in the evolution of this… read more »
  • My Weekly Roundup #143

    Cybersecurity Apple releases fixes for two zero-days affecting Macs, iPhones and iPads Apple published two notices on Thursday about two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Macs, iPhones and iPads. Apple released fixes for CVE-2022-22675 and CVE-2022-22674, both of which were submitted by… read more »