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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. . “ If you had even a little mobile development experience, [Dark Caracal] could cost less than $1,000.”—Michael

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Fed Tech News Roundup

CTOvision

The relevant text is contained in the 2016 intelligence. TWD & Associates Promotes Three to Leadership Team: Larry Scherer, Woody Hume and Tom Ladimir Washington Exec (Today) - Last month, TWD & Associates, Inc. promoted Larry Scherer, Woody Hume, and Tom Ladimir from its leadership team. The [Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided.

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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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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. Often these incidents occur accidentally, but malicious actors may also attempt to camouflage intentional attacks under the guise of apparent accidents.

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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. Google reported a 15 percent reduction in power consumption, and 40 percent reduction in cooling costs in their data centers, after implementing AI technology back in 2016. The Impact of AI on Cybersecurity.

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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.

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