Network World

JULY 6, 2016

Security researchers have found a new backdoor program that allows attackers to hijack Mac systems and control them over the Tor network. The Dropbox name is used to make the malware harder to spot and has nothing to do with the legitimate Dropbox file synchronization software.

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Network World

MAY 5, 2017

Over the past year, a group of attackers has managed to infect hundreds of computers belonging to government agencies with a malware framework stitched together from JavaScript code and publicly available tools.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2025

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2022

In recent research, IDC found that 87% of organizations impacted by ransomware in the past year had to pay a ransom to recover their data. The “sting” of a ransomware or malware attack is removed quickly, efficiently, and comprehensively. The cyber storage guarantee for recovery on primary storage is truly an industry “first.”

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Network World

JUNE 7, 2016

Attackers are abusing the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to re-infect computers with malware after they've been already cleaned by antivirus products. The technique was observed in the wild last month by researchers from SecureWorks while responding to a malware incident for a customer.

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Network World

MAY 24, 2016

The TeslaCrypt creators called it quits recently , but unfortunately for users, there's a new ransomware program that's ready to take its place. Researchers had no problem developing a file recovery tool for the first two versions.

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Network World

MAY 4, 2017

A sophisticated Russian cyberespionage group is readying attacks against Mac users and has recently ported its Windows backdoor program to macOS. It targets government entities, intelligence agencies, embassies, military organizations, research and academic institutions and large corporations.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Security researchers have discovered a new way that allows malware to inject malicious code into other processes without being detected by antivirus programs and other endpoint security systems. We also found that the legitimate program, now containing the malicious code, can be manipulated to execute that code."

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Network World

JANUARY 3, 2017

Their electronic communications may be intercepted, messaging programs may be blocked. All of that may be because the journalists and human rights organizations in our modern connected society were standing up for what is right, being the voice of dissent, getting out the news about injustice.

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TechSpot

APRIL 17, 2023

McAfee's mobile research team discovered a third-party software library it named Goldoson, which collects sensitive information and performs ad fraud. However, the developers who used Goldoson didn't realize that they were adding a malicious malware component to their programs. Read Entire Article

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Thousands of publicly accessible FTP servers, including many from Seagate network-attached storage devices, are being used by criminals to host cryptocurrency mining malware.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Chaos is a novel malware written in the Go programming language with pretty unique capabilities. Discovered and analyzed by Black Lotus Labs, the research arm of security company Lumen, the new threat can infect a plethora of computing platforms both on the software and hardware front. There are more than.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Security researchers have found a new Mac OS X malware that appears to be targeting the aerospace industry. Interestingly, the Trojan will also save a PDF document to the infected system concerning the Russian space program.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 31, 2022

This week, IT security group Checkpoint Research (CRP) published a report on its discovery of a crypto mining malware campaign hiding behind legitimate-looking apps, including Google Translate. The programs download malware while performing their advertised functions to gain users' trust.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

As a current example, consider ChatGPT by OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company. It’s also been flagged as a risk: cybersecurity companies have identified bad actors using ChatGPT to create malware. Read the result below: (From ChatGPT, by OpenAI : an AI research and deployment company.) But how good can it be?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella directed the company’s security team to boost a bounty program for AI and cloud bugs during one of Microsoft’s weekly Secure Future Initiative meetings. The money is on top of the existing $16 million that Microsoft pays out annually through its bug bounty program. Would you get more?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

To be known as NIPRGPT, it will be part of the Dark Saber software ecosystem developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate in Rome, New York. Technology is learned by doing,” said Chandra Donelson, DAF’s acting chief data and artificial intelligence officer. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2024

In response, Capital One enhanced its cybersecurity training programs to include cloud security, emphasizing the need for regular audits and configuration checks. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2023 Cost of Data Breach Report , organizations with extensive incident response planning and testing programs saved $1.49

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Even though email phishing – deceptive messages designed to trick a person into sharing sensitive data (or even money) or inject malicious software into the recipient’s system – is one of the oldest tricks in the book, email cyberattacks account for 90% of all data breaches even today, according to research by Hoxhunt.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2023

This question arises amidst the constant battle against threats posed by malware. By tricking the malware into identifying the environment improperly, security professionals could outsmart self-termination mechanisms utilized by certain strains. Malware employs complex and sophisticated techniques to detect virtualized environments.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Stolen or weak remote desktop credentials are routinely used to infect point-of-sale systems with malware, but recently they've also become a common distribution method for file-encrypting ransomware. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2024

These can be a real time-suck for secops personnel, causing them to invest time and energy into researching the fixes of those so-called critical bugs which may just be ‘low’ or ‘informational’ in many cases. Inclusion of further programming languages, with the ability to be trained by developers of each organization with minimal effort.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

Threats have evolved from malware and denial-of-service attacks in the early days of ecommerce bad actors, to ransomware attacks that threaten the ability of a business to operate. Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Three of the biggest risks moving into 2023 and beyond are: Ransomware – in which a malicious program infects a computer, locking access to all files until a ransom is paid to gain access to an unlock key. This delivers superior protection against kernel-level malware through to browser-based attacks. Ongoing training of employees.

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Network World

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Cybercriminals have unleashed a new banking Trojan program on the internet and it bears striking similarities to Dyre, a malware threat believed to have been dead for almost a year. The new Trojan is called TrickBot and first appeared in September, targeting users of banks in Australia.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Mandiant's research identifies a North Korean group, tracked as UNC5267, which has been executing this scheme since at least 2018. The scale of these operations is significant: North Korean operatives reportedly hold multiple positions simultaneously and bring in substantial revenue that supports the regime's weapons programs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Organizations that follow the principle of least privilege can improve their security posture by significantly reducing their attack surface and risk of malware spread. In the early days of Windows operating systems up through Windows XP, almost any program a user would launch would have administrator-level privileges. Within a ZTNA 2.0

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2022

New research from security firm CloudSEK shows that more than 3,200 mobile applications were leaking Twitter API (Application Program Interface) keys, which can be used to gain access and take over user accounts. Researchers learned that 3,207 apps were leaking valid Consumer Key and Consumer Secret information.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2024

And so, just as malware countermeasures evolved from standalone antivirus measures to cybersecurity as a whole industry, we can expect a similar trajectory for deepfake countermeasures as the war on reality heats up. In AI terms, thinking slow is what expert systems, and for that matter, old-fashioned computer programming, do.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 3, 2024

Gartner predicts that, by 2026, 10 percent of large enterprises will have a mature and measurable zero trust program in place, up from less than one percent at the start of 2023. According to Gartner, zero trust is top of mind for most organisations as a critical strategy to reduce risk, but few have actually followed zero trust principles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

OpenAI recently suffered a leak of ChatGPT users’ conversation histories , exposing vulnerabilities within their program and sparking concerns among employers who want to safeguard their data. For example, a security researcher conducted an experiment to see if ChatGPT could generate a realistic phishing campaign.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 8, 2023

This malware, named for its elusive nature, combines the techniques commonly associated with both "off-the-shelf" threats and advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. For more information on the PowerDrop malware, see the research from Adlumin, PowerDrop: A New Insidious PowerShell Script for Command and Control Attacks Targets U.S.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 25, 2024

The apparent goal is to illegally obtain classified data, research, and intellectual property related to South Korea's most sensitive arms programs. Security researchers have evidence that Lazarus Group successfully breached at least two South Korean aerospace companies in 2023, making off with gigabytes of weapons systems data.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals. We are continuing to observe an unyielding surge in the volume of cyberthreats, including advanced malware, botnets, ransomware, cryptojacking, and more," said Callie Guenther, Senior Manager of Cyber Threat Research at Critical Start, in a press release.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 4, 2025

These ten trends draw from research and expert insights from leaders across several verticals in the cybersecurity world. The report also suggests that regular, up-to-date training is essential to help employees avoid exposing their companies to malware and other cybersecurity threats.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Along with the promise is the peril of AI being used to cause harm by launching more efficient malware, creating sophisticated deepfakes, or by unintentionally disclosing code or trade secrets. The promise of generative AI means we are on the cusp of a rethinking of how businesses handle cybersecurity.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 6, 2023

Malware generation: ChatGPT's ability to generate malware can be misused to create malware that can infect an organization's systems, disrupt operations, or steal sensitive data. You need to break that risk down into at least four categories: technical, operational, legal and managerial.

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