Silver Sparrow

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Look for a process that appears to be PlistBuddy executing in conjunction with a command line containing the following: LaunchAgents and RunAtLoad and true. This analytic helps us find multiple macOS malware families establishing LaunchAgent persistence. Mysterious malware discovered on 30,000 new Macs". The Independent. 2021-02-22 . Retrieved 2021-02-23. September 2, 2020: version.json file seen during malware version 2 execution submitted to VirusTotal ( source) The second part of the book is told from the perspective of the daughter who James claims publicly. She is not aware of his second family, but with such a small neighbourhood, they are bound to meet. What will happen when they do? Who will James claim?

A clue as to what its developers may be going for exists at the end of the installation routine, researchers noticed.For some reason I was disappointed when the narrative voice changed from Dana to Chaurisse. The situation that both girls were put in was a result of their father's decision-making and Dana's mothers poor judgment. What does the “other woman” represent in the nightmares of women everywhere? The mere thought of an “other woman” existing is terrifying, horrifying, humiliating and for many, beyond imagination. What if the “other woman” had a child? What if she lived in the same town and neighborhood? What if the “other woman” was not a passing fancy, but existed in the husband’s life for decades – visiting her for dinner, giving her money to support herself. What if the husband’s friends and family knew about her? Is the “other woman” to blame? Is the child? How does the child of an “other woman” grow up emotionally healthy when she knows she is living in a shadow? When she knows that she is a secret? What kind of man, husband, father would live this sort of double life? And which family would he choose if his secret was exposed. Silver Sparrow explores the very complicated walls and paths drawn around the hidden life that a bigamist lives and that of his secret second wife and their child. The ultimate goal of this malware is a mystery,” researchers said. “We have no way of knowing with certainty what payload would be distributed by the malware, if a payload has already been delivered and removed, or if the adversary has a future timeline for distribution.” Dana, the first narrator, is the daughter who knows. She's also the secret daughter, the one who lives in shame and has to watch her mom mooning after this man who doesn't even live with them. Her only consolation is that she's the "pretty" one, but pretty doesn't make up for not feeling loved, and as she watches Chaurisse, she becomes obsessed with this sister who doesn't know she exists, to the point where she starts finding excuses to be where she is.

On the surface, Silver Sparrow is centred around a relatively rare situation – a man with a secret second family – but the book raises pertinent questions about modern family life. “A lot of us have unconventional families,” says Jones. “I met someone just yesterday who had read Silver Sparrow and said, ‘My father remarried, and I got demoted from a daughter to a niece.’ This is not uncommon at all. And it’s something that I don’t think we’ve discussed fully – how that feels.” As Dana Lynn grows, so does her awareness of James’s unusual role—James spends one day a week with her and her mother—and she realizes her place in James’s life is as his other daughter. She grows jealous of Chaurisse and the careless intimacy she has with James, and her curiosity leads her to seek out Chaurisse for a look, a chat, or a friendship. Dana engineers ways of encountering Chaurisse in various situations, and eventually, Dana comes to like her. While tools like osquery and antimalware controls have excellent visibility into the contents of LaunchAgents, some endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools have a hard time gaining visibility into LaunchAgents. EDR tooling tends to rely on process monitoring that offers a great deal of visibility into the creation—but not necessarily the contents—of a file. For example, an EDR tool might offer you the following shell command: cp /Volumes/TotesLegit.app/Resources/launcher.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/launcher.plist Like An American Marriage, Silver Sparrow grapples with the cultural and societal expectations of several generations of women, particularly when it comes to marriage and children. If in An American Marriage Celestial, wife to imprisoned Roy, is criticised for not standing by her husband, in Silver Sparrow it is difficult to comprehend why the “second” wife stays.In Silver Sparrow, we follow two sisters with different mothers who share the same father. The girls are kept away from each other. They grow up in seemingly similar circumstances, but their father's disparate treatment of them results in different lives for the two of them. When their paths finally intersect, it leads to the unraveling of their father's carefully crafted families. The dialogue is authentic- the story becomes more and more complex. It's heartrending, powerful, funny, and this entire book has a rich quality easily felt between the author and her historical knowledge of her generation --- growing up in Atlanta. I liked it! And then Jones gives Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon her narration. Chaurisse begins her narration telling the reader that her story begins with her mother, Laverne, marring James Witherspoon at age fourteen years old. James and Laverne were babies when they got married, thrown into the adult world. Laverne and James struggled through adolescence with an unexpected and unintended pregnancy. Laverne is a sympathetic character, a woman who had to grow up too fast. She too is a devoted mother. James, in his duplicity, is not a likable character, although Jones doesn’t write him as truly evil, more hapless, and a bit shifty. Jones writes him as a complicated character who loves both of his daughters. While out shopping Chaurisse meets a young girl and saves both of them from being caught shoplifting. The girl is named Dana, and Chaurisse grows infatuated with her believing she is a "silver" girl who is beautiful and leads a charmed life. The two become friends with the shy Dana eventually meeting and befriending Laverne as well. a b c Alexis Benveniste (21 February 2021). "Nearly 30,000 Macs reportedly infected with mysterious malware". CNN . Retrieved 2021-02-21.

Chaurisse is meek and innocent. Her part of the story is amazing in its illumination. What one girl saw was totally different from what the other experienced. Jones writes different points-of-view in such a way that you want to re-read what the other sister experienced. What I loved most of this novel is when I read Chaurisse’s part, and what I thought as fact from Dana’s part becomes gray. I do love stories that show the messiness of life, the differences of perspective, the well-intentioned acts turning wrong. And this story provides that in spades. Dana and Chaurisse are the same age, however both girls do not possess the same level of knowledge about each other or about their father. Dana and her mother know all about Chaurisse and her mother; they live in their shadow. Every choice and step that Dana and her mother take is tempered by whether Chaurisse and her mother will be there or choose to do something similar. Dana is truly a “second”. Chaurisse and her mother have no idea that Dana exists. But Chaurisse “gets” her father on a daily basis, she lives with him and has the intimacy of a father-daughter relationship. Dana does not have any of this. Her father, while a weekly visitor, is a mystery and almost an intangible. Before penning the amazing “An American Marriage”, author Tayari Jones wrote “Silver Sparrow” which is about two girls who are sisters, only one sister knows of the other. Confusing? It was for me, as Ms. Jones opened my eyes to families who live with secrets and others who are obliviously unaware. She opens her story with “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist”. Yikes! One reads of those stories, generally involving some strange religion, and these people live in desolate areas, off the grid so to speak. But in Ms. Jones novel, these girls live in Atlanta, contemporary Atlanta! While still a teenager, Dana becomes involved with a young adult man, Marcus McCready, and while her father is displeased he does nothing to stop her as he knows McCready from his married life. As a result, detecting a persistence mechanism in the form of a malicious LaunchAgent can be extremely difficult using EDR alone because it requires you to analyze surrounding activity to make a decision about the installer itself. In other words: you know that the LaunchAgent can be used as a persistence mechanism, but—since you might not be able to see the contents of the LaunchAgent file—you have to rely on context to determine the intent of that LaunchAgent.Next, we don’t know the circumstances under which ~/Library/._insu appears. This file may be part of a toolset the adversary wishes to avoid; it may be part of the malware’s life cycle itself as a way of removing components after an objective has been met. macOS Malware Silver Sparrow Affects About 40,000 Macs Running Both Intel and ARM Chips". CPO Magazine. 2021-03-04. Archived from the original on 2021-03-04 . Retrieved 2021-03-28.

The second version ( update.pkg MD5: fdd6fb2b1dfe07b0e57d4cbfef9c8149) also included an extraneous Mach-O binary ( tasker MD5: b370191228fef82635e39a137be470af) that was compiled to be compatible with both Intelx86_64 and M1 ARM64. Like before, this binary seems to have been included as a placeholder—this time, displaying the message “You did it!” v2 Image Credit: Jimmy Astle

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I really connected with this book and the characters. Maybe I've come across people who were similar. Maybe I know some of those qualities. Maybe I recognize them. Maybe some of the situations, relationships, quotes are reminiscent of things that I've experienced, witnessed, heard about. There was a real connection. This is a story of lies, deceit, secrets and need. More than that, there's no other way I can think of to go into this but to talk about the book.. so I'll toss the old spoiler alert on right now for those who need it. Below is what the book is about and my opinion. We don’t have a complete picture of exactly when Silver Sparrow first emerged, but we’ve been able to construct the following timeline through a mix of open source intelligence and Red Canary telemetry: The second half of the book is told by Chaurisse. We begin to understand why Gwen accepted her invisible secret hidden life. However -- soon both daughter's world collide. The truth is this story breaks our hearts ...but it's also 'enjoyable-to-read'. The Village Voice “Jones is a master and Silver Sparrow is a revelation, alive with meaning and hope.”