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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

Justice Department this week indicted seven Chinese nationals for a decade-long hacking spree that targeted more than 100 high-tech and online gaming companies. The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. Image: FBI.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

It’s clear that when technology develops, people find creative ways to cause mass disruption, increasing the need for antivirus protection and firewalls. Plenty of people worldwide try to hack into networks and retrieve sensitive information to commit further crimes, like identity theft or fraud.

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GUEST ESSAY: What everyone can — and should — do to mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month

The Last Watchdog

These hacks called for more awareness around cybersecurityand brought to light how crucial it is to be proactive in data protection and security. Initial NCSAM efforts included urging people connected to the internet to update their antivirus software regularly. government. Cybersecurity has become much more advanced since then.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

Unbeknownst to Ika at the time, his Pustota forum also had been completely hacked that week, and a copy of its database shared with this author. ru a year earlier saw this user requesting help from other members who had access to large numbers of hacked social media accounts. “Good afternoon,” r-fac1 wrote on Dec.

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

Security Affairs

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 The only way to remove the threat is to wipe the smartphone and reinstall the OS. 231 banking malware. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2017

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Adoption of Adaptive Security Architecture It’s no longer sufficient to install a firewall and the latest antivirus software and hope for the best. Big data is the accepted term for data sets that are so large that traditional processing applications for storage, transfer, search, and analysis are no longer adequate to deal with them.