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Effective Phishing Campaign Targeting European Companies and Institutions
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LDAP Enumeration: Unveiling the Double-Edged Sword of Active Directory
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Dirty DAG: New Vulnerabilities in Azure Data Factory’s Apache Airflow Integration

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Crypted Hearts: Exposing the HeartCrypt Packer-as-a-Service Operation
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Network Abuses Leveraging High-Profile Events: Suspicious Domain Registrations and Other Scams
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Lateral Movement on macOS: Unique and Popular Techniques and In-the-Wild Examples
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Threat Assessment: Howling Scorpius (Akira Ransomware)
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Threat Brief: Operation Lunar Peek, Activity Related to CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 (Updated Nov. 22)
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Threat Assessment: Ignoble Scorpius, Distributors of BlackSuit Ransomware
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Lynx Ransomware: A Rebranding of INC Ransomware
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Threat Assessment: Repellent Scorpius, Distributors of Cicada3301 Ransomware
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Threat Assessment: North Korean Threat Groups
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Threat Assessment: Ignoble Scorpius, Distributors of BlackSuit Ransomware
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Fake North Korean IT Worker Linked to BeaverTail Video Conference App Phishing Attack
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Silent Skimmer Gets Loud (Again)
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Jumpy Pisces Engages in Play Ransomware
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Contagious Interview: DPRK Threat Actors Lure Tech Industry Job Seekers to Install New Variants of BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret Malware
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Unraveling Sparkling Pisces’s Tool Set: KLogEXE and FPSpy
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The Unit 42 Threat Frontier: Prepare for Emerging AI Risks

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Unit 42 Looks Toward the Threat Frontier: Preparing for Emerging AI Risks
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Unit 42 Attack Surface Threat Research: Over 23% of Internet-Connected Exposures Involve Critical IT and Security Infrastructure
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Ransomware Review: First Half of 2024
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Attack Paths Into VMs in the Cloud
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