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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023

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By the time you read this, Apple may have announced their ultra-expensive, ultra-stylish AR headset; that may be enough to break the Metaverse out of its AR/VR winter. PyPI has been plagued with malware submissions, account takeovers, and other security issues. But that’s hardly news. Or maybe not. Will this slow Rust’s momentum?

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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The popularity of cryptojacking (mining cryptocurrency with malware planted in someone else’s applications) continues to rise, as the collapse in cryptocurrency prices makes legitimate mining unprofitable. A threat group named Worok is using steganography to hide malware within PNG images. When is VR too connected to the real world?

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

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Good practices for authentication, backups, and software updates are the best defense against ransomware and many other attacks. To succeed, VR will have to get beyond ultra geeky goggles. Mark Zuckerberg has been talking up the Metaverse as the next stage in the Internet’s evolution: a replacement for the Web as an AR/VR world.

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Radar Trends to Watch: July 2023

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Apple did it: they unveiled their AR/VR goggles. To prevent becoming a victim, focus on the basics: access controls, strong passwords , multi-factor authentication, zero trust, penetration testing, and good backups. AI Package Hallucination is a new technique for distributing malware.

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2024

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We’re also seeing a surge in malware traffic, along with bogus vulnerability reports in CVE. Blast-RADIUS is a new man-in-the-middle attack against the widely used RADIUS protocol for authentication, authorization, and accounting. Among other things, RADIUS is used for authentication by VPNs, ISPs, and Wi-Fi.

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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2022

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The Eternity Project is a new malware-as-a-service organization that offers many different kinds of tools for data theft, ransomware, and many other exploits. The Passkey standard, supported by Google, Apple, and Microsoft, replaces passwords with other forms of authentication. VR/AR/Metaverse.

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Radar trends to watch: May 2022

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It’s probably a better experience in VR. The NSA, Department of Energy, and other federal agencies have discovered a new malware toolkit named “pipedream” that is designed to disable power infrastructure. Cyber warfare on the home front: The FBI remotely accessed devices at some US companies to remove Russian botnet malware.