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MY TAKE: How SASE has begun disrupting IT — by shifting cybersecurity to the ‘services edge’

The Last Watchdog

Coined by Gartner in late 2018, SASE is gaining momentum as a generational disruptive force. Defense-in-depth meant adding on layers of intrusion detection and data loss prevention systems, while also keeping antivirus software updated and vulnerabilities patched. Security got bolted on by installing firewalls at web gateways.

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MY TAKE: What it takes to beat cybercrime in the age of DX and IoT: personal responsibility

The Last Watchdog

2018 was no exception. In 2018, as businesses raced to mix and match cloud-services delivered by the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, unforeseen gaps in classic network security systems began to turn up. The “Meltdown” and “Spectre” exploits paved the way for so-called “microcode hacks” in early 2018.

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BotenaGo strikes again – malware source code uploaded to GitHub

CyberSecurity Insiders

As of the publishing of this article, antivirus (AV) vendor detection for BotenaGo and its variants remains behind with very low detection coverage from most of AV vendors. The Mirai botnet targets mostly routers and IoT devices, and it supports different architectures including Linux x64, different ARM versions, MIPS, PowerPC, and more.

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Sandboxing: Advanced Malware Analysis in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Antivirus protection isn’t enough to protect against today’s advanced threats. In 2021, sandboxes are now a fundamental part of an organization’s cybersecurity architecture. In 2021, sandboxes are now a fundamental part of an organization’s cybersecurity architecture. Antivirus Coverage Isn’t Enough. What is a sandbox?

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Weak Cybersecurity? Here’s Something You Can Do About It

Adam Levin

A 2018 study regarding VPN use worldwide is worth considering. Usage increased 185% from 2016 to 2017 and 165% from 2017 to 2018. You can use two-factor authentication, strong passwords, antivirus software, firewalls, employee training and still “get got.” The technology is by no means perfect.

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Lemon Group gang pre-infected 9 million Android devices for fraudulent activities

Security Affairs

The most interesting characteristic of the Triada Trojan apart is its modular architecture, which gives it theoretically a wide range of abilities. In March 2018, security researchers at Antivirus firm Dr. Web discovered that 42 models of low-cost Android smartphones are shipped with the Android.Triada.231 231 banking malware.

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AT&T Alien Labs finds new Golang malware (BotenaGo) targeting millions of routers and IoT devices with more than 30 exploits

CyberSecurity Insiders

As of the publishing of this article, BotenaGo currently has low antivirus (AV) detection rate with only 6/62 known AVs seen in VirusTotal: (Figure 1). However, there is a difference between the Mirai malware and the new malware variants using Go, including differences in the language in which it is written and the malware architectures.

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