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Agentless Workload Scanning Gets Supercharged with Malware Scanning

Prisma Clud

Using WildFire in 2021 to analyze malicious files, our threat research team discovered a 73% increase in Cobalt Strike malware samples compared to 2020. The speed, volume and sophistication of modern malware attacks has made them more difficult to detect. This leaves a potentially damaging gap in their cloud security strategy.

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Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware

The Parallax

During a month that’s seen Android malware new and old plague the world’s most popular mobile operating system, Google says its Play Store is becoming more civilized and less like the Wild West. You have a lower probability of being infected by malware from Play than being hit by lightning,” Ahn says.

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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

Companies that have embraced the cloud need to understand the Shared Responsibility Model: a security and compliance framework that explains what shared infrastructure and systems the cloud provider is responsible for maintaining and how a customer is responsible for operating systems, data, and applications utilizing the cloud.

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ELF of the Month: Linux DDoS Malware Sample

Lacework

James CondonDirector of Research, Lacework Labs Each month we take a look at a malicious Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file, the common executable file format for Unix and Unix-like Operating Systems, and share details about the sample. In this edition of ELF of the Month, we take a look at a Linux DDoS sample […]

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Detecting Drovorub's File Operations Hooking with Tracee

Aqua Security

This blog was co-authored by Itamar Maouda Two years ago, the NSA (the United States' National Security Agency) revealed that Drovorub, an advanced Russian malware created by the GRU 85th GTsSS team, had been discovered targeting Linux systems. It has an advanced kernel rootkit that hooks several kernel functions.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Firewall in Computer Network

The Crazy Programmer

In that case, the users need to have a protective shield that protects the computer and its important files from any virus, malware, or harmful element that can affect the device. A firewall is a layer in the computer to protect it from unknown users or codes that can be a virus, malware, or unauthorized access to the computer.

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An Edge Vision for the Metaverse

CIO

After all, you wouldn’t want your haptic glove to misbehave in the metaverse or your autonomous vehicle sensors to be hijacked by malware. Operating Systems for the edge. Separating system and application spaces is already gaining followers for immutable Linux operating systems – even in consumer devices.

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