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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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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

Dark Caracal’s custom-developed mobile spyware, which the report’s authors call Pallas, is the first documented global advanced persistent threat , or APT, on a mobile device. While some antivirus software [programs] focus on detecting known exploits, these apps were fully functional except for the Trojanized part.”.

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Fed Tech News Roundup

CTOvision

The relevant text is contained in the 2016 intelligence. arms program found vulnerable to cyber attacks ThreatBrief (Yesterday) - Reuters reports that Nearly every U.S. arms program found vulnerable to cyber attacks From the report: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly every U.S. weapons program tested in fiscal 2014 showed.

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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

The infection can take the form of a virus, trojan horse, worm, spyware, adware, rootkit or the infamous ransomware. The number of ransomware cases has been steadily increasing since 2016 and now accounts for 10% of all breaches. SQL injection is an attack vector that exploits a security vulnerability in a program’s code.

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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. Programming. Apple has added “ lockdown mode ” to iOS.