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Updated Karagany Malware Targets Energy Sector. French, D. (2018, October 2). Follow best practices for design and administration of an enterprise network to limit privileged account use across administrative tiers. Retrieved October 11, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2018. Adversaries may inject malicious code into suspended and hollowed processes in order to evade process-based defenses. Nicolas Falliere, Liam O. Murchu, Eric Chien. Standard Windows users cannot disable protection features, or uninstall the program. Vrabie, V. (2020, November). Retrieved September 23, 2019. Retrieved December 2, 2020. Retrieved February 25, 2016. [53], PittyTiger attempts to obtain legitimate credentials during operations. Create and assign a shell script policy. [147], NanoCore gathers the IP address from the victims machine. Retrieved June 15, 2020. [222], Threat Group-3390 actors use NBTscan to discover vulnerable systems. Leonardo. (n.d.). (2018, March 16). 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