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Cybersecurity: some of today's news

Every day there is a lot of interesting news related to cybersecurity. Many of these news items are closely related to topics discussed in my Cybersecurity course . Sometimes these news are very closely related to the lectures of a few days ago. Yesterday was a very interesting day in this respect. On Tuesday we discussed how to attribute a specific attack campaign to a specific threat group, what IoCs (Indicators of Compromise) are, their role in attribution, and how they can be used by a defender. Yesterday I found a report that discusses all these issues in a nice and easy to read way, with reference to a specific attack campaign attributed to a Chinese threat group. The report includes a technical description of the software tools used, including "living off the land" tools (another term we discussed), a description of the download and execution steps of the infection chain and, of course, a mapping to the MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Matrix (the report mentions LSASS dum...