Tech Republic Security

JUNE 28, 2022

Conti, Quantum and Mountlocker were all linked to having used the new piece of software to inject systems with ransomware. The post New Bumblebee malware loader increasingly adopted by cyber threat groups appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 5, 2017

Beyond disabling macros, restricting unnecessary scripting languages, and being diligent about patch management, there are many other ways to protect your systems against fileless malware.

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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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IT Toolbox

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The post Windows and Linux Systems at Risk to PyPI Repository Malware Packages appeared first on Spiceworks. Since May 2023, the malicious packages have been downloaded over 10,000 times.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 25, 2017

Antivirus provider Webroot recently pushed an updated causing it to read Windows system files as malware and label Facebook a phishing site.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Understanding Lateral Threat Movement Lateral threat movement refers to the capability of an attacker, once they gain a foothold within a network, to move between devices and resources in search of valuable data or systems to compromise. Furthermore, IoT malware attacks have been on the rise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Fast food giant McDonalds, for example, dumped an AI-based ordering system in June after it wouldnt stop adding food to customer bills. [ Fast food giant McDonalds, for example, dumped an AI-based ordering system in June after it wouldnt stop adding food to customer bills. [ Reports of service outages began to spike at 1 p.m.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 5, 2019

More than a third of systems that handle biometric data were hit by at least one malware infection in the third quarter of 2019, according to a new Kaspersky report.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 17, 2020

The partnership leverages Intel's CPU telemetry data to more easily detect abnormal system behavior that indicates illicit cryptocurrency mining.

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Network World

JANUARY 28, 2025

The bad news: According to researchers at Lumen Technologys Black Lotus Labs, the unknown attacker can install a reverse shell on the local file system so they can control the router, steal data, or deploy more malware. The J-magic campaign marks the rare occasion of malware designed specifically for Junos OS, said the report.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2025

A report by Verizon found that 85% of all data breaches occur due to social engineering and system intrusions caused by basic human errors. In the past few months, infostealer malware has gained ground. Both the software and its data are sold on the dark web in the form of Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS).

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It cited the MGM Resorts data breach, the Microsoft email hack, and the FBot malware targeting web servers, cloud services, and software-as-a-service, which achieves persistency and propagates on AWS via AWS IAM (identity and access management) users as three examples of how the keys could be abused. “The

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Network World

APRIL 27, 2017

More on Network World: IBM: Financial services industry bombarded by malware, security threats + To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

With 5G, the OT network is encrypted end-to-end, which enables completely secure communication between devices and systems. First, given the high costs and significant brand damage associated with operational disruption, organisations cannot afford unplanned downtime to their OT systems. Network visibility is therefore critical.”

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Forrester IT

MAY 10, 2021

While automated malware analysis and network intrusion detection systems remained in our Divest category, three more technologies joined them this year: data loss prevention, managed security service providers, and security user behavior analytics. Why is this? Because these stand-alone technologies simply don’t cut it anymore.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

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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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As these systems expanded to connect users and devices, the network became more powerful, interconnected and valuable. In response, businesses and governments began to invest more heavily in cybersecurity measures, such as intrusion detection systems, encryption, and security awareness training.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 11, 2020

DeepArmor Industrial, fortified by Siemens, increases operational visibility, improves malware detection, and provides protection across a company's fleet of industrial control systems and end points.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Palo Alto Networks has released next-generation firewall (NGFW) software that includes some 50 new features aimed at helping enterprise organizations battle zero-day threats and advanced malware attacks. The new features are built into the latest version of Palo Alto's firewall operating system – PAN 11.0

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 2, 2017

In a recent support alert issued by IBM, the company noted that some USB drives that shipped with its Storwize systems contained malicious code.

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Network World

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Among the fastest-moving frontiers in enterprise cybersecurity: mobile, the internet of things (IoT), and operational technology (OT) systems. Meanwhile, OT and cyber-physical systems, once air-gapped and isolated from the internet, have rapidly become integrated into enterprise networks, where threats can proliferate. Today, 96.5%

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Forrester IT

JUNE 27, 2017

I have yet to meet a single user that clicked a malicious link intentionally - beyond security researchers and malware analysts that is. The malware author created the tool to use multiple attack vectors. Yes, patching helps, but this malware also captures credentials. malware. As always context and situation matter.

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Network World

AUGUST 25, 2017

It is an epidemiological approach that creates immunity with a vaccine by exposing the immune system to a weakened form of the disease. Researchers have posed an original solution to the problem: Use the vulnerability of these devices to inject a white worm that secures the devices. Also on Network World: How to improve IoT security +.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Additionally, ThreatLabz uncovered a malware campaign in which attackers created a fake AI platform to exploit interest in AI and trick victims into downloading malicious software. AI-powered cyberthreat protection: Detect and block AI-generated phishing campaigns, adversarial exploits, and AI-driven malware in real time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

According to ITICs 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey , 90% of mid-size and large enterprises face costs exceeding $300,000 for each hour of system downtime. To address these challenges, organizations need to implement a unified data security and management system that delivers consistent backup and recovery performance.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Basic antivirus, for instance, might catch PC-based malware once a user downloads it, but you could try to block it before it ever reaches the user device, or at least have another security mechanism in place that might catch it if the basic antivirus doesn’t. DNS-based filtering can do this!

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Network World

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Three new boxes in the FortiGate G Series portfolio the 70G, 50G, and 30G include integrated firewall, intrusion prevention, malware and ransomware protection, SD-WAN, and switching capabilities, all of which can be managed via the vendors FortiManager centralized management platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

AI systems can analyze vast amounts of data in real time, identifying potential threats with speed and accuracy. Companies like CrowdStrike have documented that their AI-driven systems can detect threats in under one second. Imagine a security system that doesnt just alert you to a threat but takes immediate action to neutralize it.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Cyber criminals are launching ransomware attacks that are specifically targeting industrial control systems (ICS) in what researchers say is the first instance of file-encrypting malware being built to directly infect computer networks that control operations in manufacturing and utilities environments.

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Network World

APRIL 9, 2025

In parallel, weve added coverage across the Fabric eco-system to enable customers to monitor and control the use of GenAI-enabled services within their organization. The package employs AI and machine learning techniques to large-scale data analysis with the goal of helping detect and neutralize emerging malware threats.

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CTOvision

MARCH 2, 2021

Amazon Web Services admitted Thursday that hackers used its systems in the SolarWinds campaign but reiterated the cloud computing giant wasn’t itself infected with malware. The actors used EC2 [Amazon Elastic […].

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Network World

APRIL 24, 2019

The group behind the Domain Name System attacks known as DNSpionage have upped their dark actions with new tools and malware to focus their attacks and better hide their activities. The threat actor's ongoing development of DNSpionage malware shows that the attacker continues to find new ways to avoid detection.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 7, 2020

Hackers who gain access to a remote system can launch malware, spread spam, and perform identity theft, according to McAfee.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 14, 2024

This can include internal and external systems, either company-owned or leased/rented/subscribed to. To protect company data and reputation, it is essential to ensure that the network is secured from unauthorized access, data loss, malware infestations and security breaches. This must be done.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It can also create cyber threats that are harder to detect than before, such as AI-powered malware, which can learn from and circumvent an organization’s defenses at breakneck speed. Moreover, AI can reduce false positives more effectively than rule-based security systems.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 16, 2022

Named SysJoker by Intezer's security team, the program conceals itself as a system update within the target's OS environment. Each variation of the malware is tailored. The custom-written, C++ based remote access trojan (RAT) that went completely undetected for several months may have been released around mid to late 2021.

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