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How to investigate a massive phishing campaign

A recent anonymous tip from a reader drew my attention to a malicious IP address allegedly involved in a widespread phishing campaign against users in Ireland.

The malicious actors behind this campaign have created hundreds of fake domains, impersonating several Irish banks, the national postal service of Ireland, courier services, Sky TV, covid pass issuers, as well as several other financial entities abroad, the English NHS and many others.

Source: How to investigate a massive phishing campaign, an article by Maciej Makowski.

Thanks to Paul for bringing this very interesting article to my attention.

• osint
• security

What happened to Perl 7?

Two years ago Perl 7 was announced. A key idea for Perl 7 was to significantly reduce the boilerplate needed at the top of your code, by enabling a lot of widely used modules / pragmas, but this would have come at the price of breaking some backwards compatibility. This would have meant that some existing code wouldn't have worked without modification.

Source: What happened to Perl 7?.

• perl

All you need to know about Asterisks in Python

The most widely known usage of the asterisk operator, also known as destructuring operator, in Python is its usage in functions.

Source: All you need to know about Asterisks in Python, an article by Bas Steins.

• python