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A teardown tale of two not-so-different switches
Eleven years ago, my wife and I experienced the aftereffects of our first close-proximity lightning blast here in the Rocky Mountain foothills, clobbering (among other things) both five-port and eight-port Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switches, both of which ended up going under the teardown knife. The failure mechanism for the first switch ended up being non-obvious,…
The strange tale of ischhfd83: When cybercriminals eat their own
At Sophos X-Ops, we often get queries from our customers asking if they’re protected against certain malware variants. At first glance, a recent question seemed no different. A customer wanted to know if we had protections for ‘Sakura RAT,’ an open-source malware project hosted on GitHub, because of media claims that it had “sophisticated anti-detection…