The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. It surfaced in November 2012 and was making thousands of victims a day. None of these early threats went pro.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate?

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. We have credible reports that the Chinese hacked Gmail around 2010, and there are ongoing concerns about both censorship and surveillance by the Chinese social-networking company TikTok.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This technology is stored in the Workbook OLE stream in Excel 97-2003 format which makes it very difficult to detect and parse by antivirus (AV) engines. doc and.xlm) to evade antivirus detection and bypass spam filters as well. This leads to XLM macros not being well known to the public.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

FLASHBACK The new clues about Rescator’s identity came into focus when I revisited the reporting around an April 2013 story here that identified the author of the OSX Flashback Trojan , an early malware strain that quickly spread to more than 650,000 Mac computers worldwide in 2012.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Such a scenario isn’t fantasy; something like this actually existed between 2012 and 2014. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Then there came all this antivirus, antimalware products, there was a need to report which ones were better at solving the problem.

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