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Kaspersky Study: Devices Infected With Data-Stealing Malware Increased by 7 Times Since 2020

Tech Republic Security

Nearly 10 million devices were infected with data-stealing malware in 2023, with criminals stealing an average of 50.9 credentials per device.

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The dark side of online poker or the commoditization and weaponization of big data and espionage

Elie

Big data weaponization and malware-based espionage are usually associated with governments; however, they don’t own a monopoly on such activities. Also, online poker uses big data to profile user behavior. This blog post is a brief tour of some of the darkest aspects of online poker.

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Proofpoint Exposes Sophisticated Social Engineering Attack on Recruiters That Infects Their Computers With Malware

Tech Republic Security

Recruiters and anyone else involved in hiring processes should be knowledgeable about this social engineering attack threat. Get the details.

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News alert: Criminal IP and Quad9 collaborate to exchange domain and IP threat intelligence

The Last Watchdog

Through this integration, Quad9 leverages the most up-to-date threat intelligence lists, incorporating data from Criminal IP’s database of malicious domains to block harmful hostnames.

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Attackers target Apache Hadoop and Flink to deliver cryptominers

Security Affairs

The researchers reported that the attack is particularly intriguing because threat actors use packers and rootkits to conceal the malware. Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework designed for the distributed storage and processing of large sets of data using a cluster of commodity hardware. ” states the report.

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Malware Training Sets: FollowUP

Security Affairs

The popular expert Marco Ramilli provided a follow up to its Malware classification activity by adding a scripting section which would be useful for several purposes. On 2016 I was working hard to find a way to classify Malware families through artificial intelligence (machine learning). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Google Cloud’s Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2024 Include Generative AI-Based Attacks

Tech Republic Security

A November report from Google Cloud details possible nation-state malware tactics in 2024 and new angles of cyberattacks.