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  "name": "Welcome to the party, pal!",
  "slug": "welcome-to-the-party-pal",
  "description": "This end-of-year newsletter discusses cybersecurity trends and personal anecdotes. It emphasizes the importance of multi-factor authentication and password management, highlighting the prevalence of identity-based attacks. The author shares a story about introducing hardware tokens to family members, which was met with limited enthusiasm. The newsletter also mentions Cisco Talos' vulnerability research efforts, recent security headlines, and upcoming events. It concludes with a list of prevalent malware files detected by Talos telemetry.",
  "published": "2024-12-19T22:43:46+00:00",
  "created_at": "2024-12-19T22:43:46+00:00",
  "modified_at": "2024-12-20T10:43:09+00:00",
  "created_at_opencti": "2024-12-19T22:43:46+00:00",
  "author": "",
  "confidence": null,
  "report_types": [],
  "labels": [],
  "tags": [
    "2024-12-19",
    "badbox",
    "coinminer:mbt.26mw.in14.talos",
    "hardware tokens",
    "identity-based attacks",
    "malware detection",
    "multi-factor authentication",
    "password management",
    "trojan/win32.coinminer.r174018",
    "vulnerability research",
    "w32.file.malparent",
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    "win32.trojan-stealer.petef.fpskk8"
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  "external_refs": [
    "https://blog.talosintelligence.com/welcome-to-the-party-pal-2/",
    "https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6764afb2928e95a5a36d98de"
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