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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.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In 2016, RFC 7908 introduced a more complex taxonomy of BGP routing leaks, but in this post, I will employ simply two main categories of error: origination and AS path. During the leak, a large portion of the internet’s traffic was redirected to AS7007, where it overwhelmed its networking equipment and was dropped.

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AI Applications in Cybersecurity with Real-Life Examples

Altexsoft

You can classify a binary file into categories like legitimate software, adware, ransomware, and spyware. For instance, you can develop profiles of every application inside your organization’s network by analyzing data from endpoints. Network security. The Impact of AI on Cybersecurity.

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Forget the Rules, Listen to the Data

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

A 2016 CyberSource report claimed that over 90% of online fraud detection platforms use transaction rules to detect suspicious transactions which are then directed to a human for review. DataOps is required to engineer and prepare the data so that the machine learning algorithms can be efficient and effective.

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Attack Vectors: How They Can Harm Your Company

Kaseya

An attack vector is a tool that cybercriminals use to launch a cyberattack while an attack surface is any point or points on the network area of a company that is broken through to launch the attack. The surface area increases as more endpoints, servers, switches, software applications or any other IT assets get configured to a network. .

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Such rootkits were recently discovered (one is named CosmicStrand); they have apparently been in the wild since 2016. Lockdown mode provides an extreme degree of privacy; it is intended for people who believe they are being targeted by state-sponsored mercenary spyware. Apple has added “ lockdown mode ” to iOS.