Network World

MAY 27, 2016

Malware links suggest that North Korean hackers might be behind recent attacks against several Asian banks, including the theft of US$81 million from the Bangladesh central bank earlier this year. The same malware was also previously linked to an attempted theft of $1 million from Tien Phong Bank in Vietnam.

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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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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2016

Security researchers have found a sophisticated malware program that may have been used recently by a gang of hackers to steal more than US$350,000 from ATMs in Thailand. million Baht from 21 ATMs in the country. million Baht from 21 ATMs in the country. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Network World

JUNE 29, 2016

The infrastructure used by an Iranian cyberespionage group to control infected computers around the world has been hijacked by security researchers. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks came across the group's activities earlier this year, but found evidence that it has been operating since at least 2007.

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Network World

JULY 12, 2016

Security researchers have discovered a new malware threat that goes to great lengths to remain undetected while targeting energy companies. The researchers believe it was released in May and was created by state-sponsored attackers. The researchers believe it was released in May and was created by state-sponsored attackers.

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Network World

JUNE 2, 2016

Researchers have found a malware program that was designed to manipulate supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in order to hide the real readings from industrial processes. The same technique was used by the Stuxnet sabotage malware allegedly created by the U.S.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2017

Hackers have started adding data-wiping routines to malware that's designed to infect internet-of-things and other embedded devices. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks found a new malware program dubbed Amnesia that infects digital video recorders through a year-old vulnerability.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

After aggressively using JavaScript email attachments to distribute malware for the past year, attackers are now switching to less suspicious file types to trick users. Last week, researchers from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center warned about a new wave of spam emails that carried malicious.LNK files inside ZIP archives.

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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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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2021

SecureWorld just reviewed a recently released a report from Blackberry's Research and Intelligence team on this topic. The report looks into how threat actors are currently adapting, as they observed an increase in the use of uncommon programming languages. Challenges of uncommon programming languages.

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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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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

“Many of the department’s supercomputing resources are devoted only to the highest impact, breakthrough research.” “I think that’s a certainty,” said Jim Lewis, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the director of the Technology and Public Policy Program.’

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The Verge

MARCH 14, 2022

Researchers have discovered a new type of destructive wiper malware affecting computers in Ukraine, making it at least the third strain of wiper to have hit Ukrainian systems since the Russian invasion began. We first observed this new malware we call #CaddyWiper today around 9h38 UTC. ESET research.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A new malware strain has infected Mac devices all over the world—most prominently in the U.S. and parts of Europe—though experts can’t decide where it came from or what it does. Read more.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

An excellent example of how to fulfill that goal of successful public/private partnerships is demonstrated by the work of the Transition to Practice Program (TTP) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology (S & T) Directorate. CSD works closely with Commercialization Office which was stood up in 2008.

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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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Network World

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Attackers have started to use Windows and Android malware to hack into embedded devices, dispelling the widely held belief that if such devices are not directly exposed to the Internet they're less vulnerable. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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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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Network World

AUGUST 17, 2016

Overall malware volume is down but the number of variants has gone up precipitously. In fact, according to the Webroot threat report, about 97% of all malware variants are seen only one time. In other words, they are designed to target and attack specific organizations.

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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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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

JULY 14, 2016

The creators of the widespread Locky ransomware have added a fallback mechanism in the latest version of their program for situations where the malware can't reach their command-and-control servers. Calling home to a server is important for ransomware programs that use public key cryptography.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

A new file-encrypting ransomware program for macOS is being distributed through bittorrent websites and users who fall victim to it won't be able to recover their files, even if they pay. Crypto ransomware programs for macOS are rare. The program was named OSX/Filecoder.E OSX/Filecoder.E

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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 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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Network World

AUGUST 4, 2016

USB keys were famously used as part of the Stuxnet attack on the Iranian nuclear program and for good reason: it’s got a high rate of effectiveness, according to a researcher at Black Hat 2016.

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