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This led to the development of early antivirus software and firewalls, which were designed to protect computers from malicious software and unauthorized access. This philosophy demands rigorous and continuous authentication and authorization procedures before granting access to any resources or systems.
A recent report from Tenable highlights how DeepSeek R1, an open-source AI model, can generate rudimentary malware, including keyloggers and ransomware. While the AI-generated malware required manual debugging to function properly, its mere existence signals an urgent need for security teams to adapt their defenses.
The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.
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When you add multi-factor authentication (MFA) resets to the picture, that number is likely even higher. Most authentication methods are actually quite easy to get around, and in many cases were never intended to be security factors. But what happens when a user can’t access their authenticator app?
Many of these accounts have elevated privileges to access corporate assets or development and production environments for customer-facing systems. Authentication options: Internally, CISOs have a range of strong authentication options, including smartcards and tokens.
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Create custom malware that adapts to countermeasures in real time. Understanding these factors is crucial to developing defenses that can evolve alongside these emerging threats. Or consider a developer embedding subtle, AI-enhanced backdoors into critical software updates, remaining undetected by conventional security scans.
Additionally, adding a banner or warning to external emails can make it easier to detect spoofed phishing attempts and enabling Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) can help block some attempts. Your escalation procedures for BEC may be slightly different than for malware or other incidents.
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1 area of spending increase in 2015, with nearly half (46%) planning to invest more in access control, intrusion prevention, and virus and malware protection. Multi-factor authentication for both cloud-based accounts and on-premise Active Directory will now be part of Windows, rather needing a hardware solution to complete.
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