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The Paragon ntfs for mac shows read only. Prelude Op. 28, No. 15, by Frédéric Chopin, known as the 'Raindrop' prelude, is one of the 24 Chopin preludes. Usually lasting between five and seven minutes, this is the longest of the preludes. The prelude is noted for its repeating A♭, which appears throughout the piece and sounds like raindrops to many listeners.^[1]

Composition[edit]

Some, though not all, of Op. 28 was written during Chopin and George Sand's stay at a monastery in Valldemossa, Mallorca in 1838.^[2] In her Histoire de ma vie, Sand related how one evening she and her son Maurice, returning from Palma in a terrible rainstorm, found a distraught Chopin who exclaimed, 'Ah! I knew well that you were dead.' While playing his piano he had a dream:

Virtualbox for macos catalina. He saw himself drowned in a lake. Heavy drops of icy water fell in a regular rhythm on his breast, and when I made him listen to the sound of the drops of water indeed falling in rhythm on the roof, he denied having heard it. He was even angry that I should interpret this in terms of imitative sounds. He protested with all his might – and he was right to – against the childishness of such aural imitations. His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds.^[3]

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Sand did not say which prelude Chopin played for her on that occasion, but most music critics assume it to be no. 15, because of the repeating A♭, with its suggestion of the 'gentle patter' of rain.^[4] However, Peter Dayan points out that Sand accepted Chopin's protests that the prelude was not an imitation of the sound of raindrops, but a translation of nature's harmonies within Chopin's 'génie'.^[5]Frederick Niecks says that in the middle section of the prelude there 'rises before one's mind the cloistered court of the monastery of Valldemossa, and a procession of monks chanting lugubrious prayers, and carrying in the dark hours of night their departed brother to his last resting-place.'^[6] Bluestacks on macbook pro.

Description[edit]

The prelude opens with a 'serene' theme in D♭. It then changes to a 'lugubrious interlude' in C♯ minor, 'with the dominantpedal never ceasing, a basso ostinato'.^[7] The repeating A♭/G♯, which has been heard throughout the first section, here becomes more insistent.

Following this, the prelude ends with a repetition of the original theme. Frederick Niecks says, 'This C♯ minor portion.. affects one like an oppressive dream; the reentrance of the opening D♭ major, which dispels the dreadful nightmare, comes upon one with the smiling freshness of dear, familiar nature – only after these horrors of the imagination can its serene beauty be fully appreciated.'^[6]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Fishko, Sara (2010-03-19). 'The Fishko Files: Chopin's 'Raindrop' Prelude'. WNYC. Archived from the original on 2012-10-02. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
2. ^Huneker, James (1927). Chopin: The Man and his Music. p. 165. ISBN1-60303-588-5. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
3. ^Huneker (1927), p. 166
4. ^Dayan, Peter (2006). Music Writing Literature, from Sand via Debussy to Derrida. Ashgate Publishing. p. 8. ISBN0-7546-5193-2. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
5. ^Dayan (2006), p. 6
6. ^ ^abNiecks, Frederick (2009). Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician. Echo Library. p. 493. ISBN978-1-4068-5229-5. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
7. ^Huneker (1927), p. 177

External links[edit]

• Prelude No. 15 on YouTube, performed by Martha Argerich
• Prelude No. 15 on YouTube, performed by Valentina Igoshina

The ongoing analysis of the SolarWinds supply-chain attack uncovered a fourth malicious tool that researchers call Raindrop and was used for distribution across computers on the victim network.

The hackers used Raindrop to deliver a Cobalt Strike beacon to select victims that were of interest and which had already been compromised through the trojanized SolarWinds Orion update.

There are currently four pieces of malware identified in the SolarWinds cyberattack, believed to be the work of a Russian threat actor:

• Sunspot, the initial malware used to inject backdoors into the Orion platform builds
• Sunburst (Solorigate), the malware planted in Orion updates distributed to thousands of SolarWinds customers
• Teardrop post-exploitation tool delivered by Sunburst on select victims deploy customized Cobalt Strike beacons
• Raindrop, the newly uncovered malware that is similar to Teardrop

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Disguised as 7-Zip file to load Cobalt Strike

Symantec researchers found the new Raindrop malware on machines compromised through the SolarWinds cyberattack. They noticed that it fulfills the same function as Teardrop but it is different as far as the deployment mechanism is concerned, as well as at the code level.

To hide the malicious functionality, the hackers used a modified version of the 7-Zip source code to compile Raindrop as a DLL file. The 7-Zip code only acts as a cover as it is not used in any way.

In one victim that installed the trojanized Orion platform in early July 2020, Symantec found that Teardrop came the very next day via Sunburst. Raindrop appeared 11 days later on another host in the organization where malicious activity had not been observed, the researchers say.

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How Raindrop ended up on a victim network is a mystery for now. Symantec saw no evidence of Sunburst delivering Raindrop directly, yet it was present 'elsewhere on networks where at least one computer has already been compromised by Sunburst.'

On another victim network, Raindrop landed in May 2020. A few days later, PowerShell commands were executed in an attempt to spread the malware on other systems. Cybersecurity company Volexity investigating SolarWinds cyberattacks also reported that the hackers used PowerShell for lateral movement activity by creating new tasks on remote machines.

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Symantec has seen four samples of the new malware, all delivering a Cobalt Strike beacon. In three cases, the payload was configured to communicate HTTPS. In the last instance, the communication occurred over an SMB Named Pipe, likely because the computer did not have internet access and another computer on the network was used for command and control.

Symantec finding Raindrop adds another piece to the SolarWinds supply-chain attack puzzle. It reveals another aspect of the operation, giving defenders and investigators new avenues to explore in their effort to clean impacted networks.