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Bing, Yandex and encoded URLs

Several Bing cyber tips are related to the Yandex website and the use of Russian .RU websites. These websites can contain Base64-encoded URLs that are not processed by the forensic tool. However, if the code is pasted in a web browser it will load the file. Using an SQLite query and a Python script, you can extract all of the encoded URLs from the Microsoft Edge History database and convert the files into the original file.

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