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At runtime, a canary is checked when a function returns. If a canary has been modified, the program stops execution and exits. This occurs on a failed Stack Overflow Attack. Code Pointer Masking (CPM): after loading a (potentially changed) code pointer into a register, the user can apply a bitmask to the pointer. This effectively restricts the ...
The virus was notable due to the destructive nature of the attack and the cost of recovery. Shamoon can spread from an infected machine to other computers on the network. Once a system is infected, the virus continues to compile a list of files from specific locations on the system, upload them to the attacker, and erase them.
Source code viruses are a subset of computer viruses that make modifications to source code located on an infected machine. A source file can be overwritten such that it includes a call to some malicious code.
On 31 August 2017, WikiLeaks published part 23, the manual for the project Angelfire. Angelfire was a malware framework made to infect computers running Windows XP and Windows 7, made of five parts. Solartime was the malware that modified the boot sector to load Wolfcreek, which was a self-loading driver that loaded other drivers.
The stated purpose of the puzzles each year was to recruit "highly intelligent individuals", although the ultimate purpose remains unknown. [2] Theories have included claims that Cicada 3301 is a secret society with the goal of improving cryptography, privacy, and anonymity or that it is a cult or religion.
Doxbin was an onion service in the form of a pastebin used to post or leak (often referred to as doxing) personal data of any person of interest.. Due to the illegal nature of much of the information it published (such as social security numbers, bank routing information, and credit card information, all in plain text), it was one of many sites seized during Operation Onymous, a multinational ...
The server component (sized around 20–50 kilobytes, depending on variant) is dropped to C:\Program Files\Bifrost\server.exe with default settings and, when running, connects to a predefined IP address on TCP port 81, awaiting commands from the remote user who uses the client component. However, both installation directory and TCP port can be ...
The Mirai botnet was first found in August 2016 [2] by MalwareMustDie, [3] a white hat malware research group, and has been used in some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, including an attack on 20 September 2016 [4] on computer security journalist Brian Krebs' website, an attack on French web host ...