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Live Updates: Xi Warns of ‘Dangerous Storms’ Facing China

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Xi Jinping Thought is ubiquitous in China, detailed in everything from textbooks to collections of Mr. Xi’s writings, from dedicated research centers to apps for studying his works.

In China, having a political philosophy named after a leader carries enormous significance. For Mr. Xi, it is a core expression of his expanding power. At his speech opening the Communist Party’s congress in Beijing on Sunday, he said that “fully implementing” his thought was a key theme.

During the meeting this week, China’s political elite are expected to further elevate the status of the political doctrine — and by extension, Mr. Xi’s authority.

The party is likely to amend its constitution to change the name of the theory, officially known as Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism With Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

“‘Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism With Chinese Characteristics for a New Era’ is a crown that’s too heavy to wear,” said David Bandurski, the director of the China Media Project, a research organization. “So, he wants a crown he can actually wear.”

Many analysts expect the phrase to be shortened to Xi Jinping Thought. That would make it a “pithy, direct, powerful signal” of his authority, Mr. Bandurski said.

Mr. Xi already had the full phrase inserted into the party charter in 2017. That put Mr. Xi above his most recent predecessors, Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin, whose own ideological contributions, while mentioned in the same document, don’t carry their names in the titles. It even vaulted him above Deng Xiaoping, whose eponymous input is labeled a “theory.”

The ideology is more than an empty celebration of Mr. Xi. Xi Jinping Thought is a framework for China’s governance and a guide for what it will do under his continuing leadership.

The goal of Mr. Xi’s ideology is to cement the Communist Party’s role as China’s governing body, with a single strong leader — Mr. Xi himself — at the top, dispensing with the more collective leadership style of his recent predecessors.

Mr. Xi has escalated a crackdown on corruption, a widely popular effort that also helps command cadres’ loyalty to him and ensures that the party, not the public at large, decides…

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DIY Web Attacks Might Still Live on via WebAttacker

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Age is rarely an issue when it comes to malware campaigns, and that’s certainly true for WebAttacker. WebAttacker is a do-it-yourself (DIY) malware creation kit that became popular back in 2006. It was the first exploit kit made available to cybercriminals in the Russian underground market for as little as US$20.

While you may think it’s no longer active, our research could suggest otherwise. An in-depth look at three email addresses belonging to the WebAttacker operators revealed these findings.

  • Close to 350 domains were registered using email addresses identified as indicators of compromise (IoCs).
  • The domains registered with the email addresses were created between 2011 and 2022.
  • The domains resolved to more than 130 IP addresses.
  • The IP addresses were spread out across more than a dozen countries.

A sample of the additional artifacts obtained from our analysis is available for download from our website.

Old but Potentially Not Dead

We began the investigation by using the email addresses belonging to the WebAttacker operators as reverse WHOIS search strings. That led to the discovery of 346 domains registered between 2011 and 2022, at least five years after the exploit kit was made available in cybercriminal underground markets. The domain registration peaked in 2021.

Several of the domains look as if they were randomly generated, such as:

  • ggssg[.]com
  • sssffvv[.]com
  • mmzzaa[.]com
  • ccpppd[.]com
  • ppoomm[.]com
  • ppqqd[.]com
  • ffggll[.]com
  • ppssbb[.]com
  • ddssdd[.]com
  • hhddn[.]com

A few of them also led to what look to be business sites, specifically rental web pages, based on screenshot lookups.

A bulk Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) malware check, however, showed that only one domain—ddgcc[.]com—was tagged “malicious” by various malware engines. This web property is currently up for sale, so users looking for a domain for their businesses may want to be wary.

DNS lookups for the domains showed that they resolved to 135 IP addresses spread out over a dozen countries. A majority of them were geolocated in the U.S., followed by China, Canada, Germany, Japan, and South Africa.

Interestingly, while only one domain was dubbed “malicious,” 12 of the IP…

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[Update: Fix is live] Windows Defender is reporting a false-positive threat ‘Behavior:Win32/Hive.ZY’; it’s nothing to be worried about

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  • Windows Defender is alerting people of a “threat detected” for “Behavior:Win32/Hive.ZY”
  • The issue is tied to a recent listing in Microsoft’s Defender update file, which is making a wrong detection
  • The trigger seems tied to Defender detecting “Electron-based or Chromium-based applications as malware”
  • Microsoft is expected to patch/update Microsoft Defender to alleviate the issue

Update #1 (1:50 PM ET): According to the Microsoft support forums, the Defender Team indicated they are investigating this and will hopefully release a patch for this soon.

Update #2: (7:50 PM ET): According to Microsoft support forums, “indications from a Microsoft Agent is a fix has been released (Version: 1.373.1537.0)”

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Bengaluru Karnataka News Live Updates: Security beefed up ahead of Lingayat seer’s sexual assault case hearing – The Indian Express

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Bengaluru Karnataka News Live Updates: Security beefed up ahead of Lingayat seer’s sexual assault case hearing  The Indian Express

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