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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

SecureList

At the end of September, at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit , our researchers provided an overview of FinSpy , an infamous surveillance toolset that several NGOs have repeatedly reported being used against journalists, political dissidents and human rights activists. FinSpy: analysis of current capabilities. In version 16.80.0

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What is Malware? Definition, Purpose & Common Protections

eSecurity Planet

Since 2008, antivirus and cybersecurity software testers AV-TEST have kept track of the number of newly-developed malware worldwide, totaling at nearly 1 billion as of September 2022. Firmware rootkits are also known as “hardware rootkits.”. Your antivirus program or other security solution is randomly disabled.

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EP 31: Stopping the Mirai IoT Botnet, One CnC Server At A Time

ForAllSecure

That would make this denial of service attack roughly twice as powerful as any similar previously recorded DDoS attack at the time. That said, there would not be any DDoS attack, and the targets, say, on the other hand, if you lock the traffic from the c&c server, you might not be infected.

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