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    Windows GDID Tied to FBI IP History in Scattered Spider Case

    Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old accused of being part of Scattered Spider, was reportedly linked to alleged activity after Microsoft provided the FBI with IP-address history tied to a Windows Global Device Identifier, according to Korben’s account of a 39-page complaint made public in early July...
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    CVE-2022-45639: Disputed Local Command Injection in Sleuth Kit fls -m

    A disputed local command-injection flaw tracked as CVE-2022-45639 has been associated with The Sleuth Kit’s fls utility (version 4.11.1): multiple vulnerability databases record a proof‑of‑concept showing that a specially crafted value passed to the fls tool’s -m option can cause shell...
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    Windows Threat Hunting with Sysinternals: Process Explorer, TCPView, Autoruns, ProcMon, Sysmon

    When something on a Windows PC “feels off” — a persistent CPU spike, a process that keeps reappearing after you remove it, or a program quietly making outbound connections — Task Manager can leave you guessing. That’s why advanced users and incident responders reach for the Windows Sysinternals...
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    Lahore Remand Case Tests PECA Powers and NCCIA Forensics

    A Lahore district court has formally asked the complainant — Punjab Information Minister Uzma Bukhari — and the investigating officer to file replies in a petition challenging the magistrate’s order that handed PTI social‑media activist Falak Javed over to the National Cyber Crime Investigation...