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Even North Korea has an antivirus program—but it’s used for spying

The Parallax

Researchers announced on May 1 that when they inspected the ingredients of the North Korean antivirus software for Windows computers, they found a mix of spyware and old code stolen from an antivirus vendor. Jaku is a known spyware-botnet combination, spread over BitTorrent. Image courtesy Check Point.

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Zero-Day: Vulnerabilities, Exploits, Attacks and How to Manage Them

Kaseya

Originally developed by NASA as a cyberattack tool, it was stolen and leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacking group in March 2017. The Stuxnet worm was spread through Microsoft Windows computers and could be carried on USB drives as well. At the top of the charts is EternalBlue, the most damaging exploit in history.

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Pay Attention to Cybersecurity Warnings

Kaseya

This ‘wormable’ Windows vulnerability, CVE-2020-0796 , impacts the Server Message Block or SMBv3 network communications protocol. Microsoft issues out-of-band fix for leaked ‘EternalDarkness’ bug SC Media. This would allow them to take control of the Windows system. According to Microsoft, this “important” (i.e.

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