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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

TechCrunch

And there was even more, of course: MyPlace raised nearly $6 million for a home-sharing social network, Apollo.io Image Credits: sergeyskleznev (opens in a new window). To achieve enterprise sales success, tailor your approach to CIOs. Regardless, it’s out in the market racking up downloads, which is pretty bad.

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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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My New Year’s Resolution: Going Passwordless!

Ivanti

Also, with the resurgence of the Pegasus spyware that now exploits zero-day vulnerabilities in common apps like iMessage, FaceTime, Safari, WhatsApp, and others, stolen data – specifically credentials – allow attackers to gain a foothold onto a compromised device without the end user knowing. solution to the security patching process.

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Breaking Down the NASCIO Top 10 for 2023

Palo Alto Networks

With the Palo Alto Networks platform approach to building and operating a modernized, future-proof security framework, you can integrate cybersecurity into every initiative to protect data and ensure continuity of services. Palo Alto Networks takes a holistic approach to cybersecurity across the organization.

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Pay Attention to Cybersecurity Warnings

Kaseya

This ‘wormable’ Windows vulnerability, CVE-2020-0796 , impacts the Server Message Block or SMBv3 network communications protocol. lower priority) vulnerability is a privilege elevation risk that takes advantage of how the OneDrive desktop app for Windows handles symbolic links. According to Microsoft, this “important” (i.e.

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Humans Can be Hacked. So Stop Using Passwords, Already!

Ivanti

You already carry your mobile phone with you in the Everywhere Workplace and you can use it to unlock your Windows or Mac company-owned laptop, and it seamlessly grants you access into your work accounts in a single sign-on (SSO) workflow. It’s called device-as-identity.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

Tenable

Actors pose as company IT and/or helpdesk staff and use phone calls or SMS messages to obtain credentials from employees to access the target network,” the advisory reads. To gain initial access, cybercriminals associated with ALPHV Blackcat employ advanced social engineering techniques and publicly-available information about a company.