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NordVPN puts the price tag of stolen streaming subscriptions at $38 million

Tech Republic Security

Malware designed to steal log-in information saved in browsers has infected 16 million computers and swiped credentials for up to 174,800 accounts.

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4 Ways North Korea Is Targeting Security Researchers

SecureWorld News

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working for several months to try to identify who is behind an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers, specifically those who work on vulnerability research and development at a variety of organizations. Google's TAG team discovery: cyberattack motive.

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Bad Actor Using New Method to Avert Detection, Google Discovers

SecureWorld News

Whether it is ransomware, other types of malware, or any number of cyberattacks, threat actors keep inventing new techniques to cause disruption. In a blog post, Neel Mehta, Information Security lead for Google, explains how a hacker has managed to break certificate code parsing to invade email inboxes and infect users with malware.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. 3 We have seen an increase of 15% in cloud security breaches as compared to last year. 8 Complexity.

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California University Pays $1.14 Million in Ransomware Attack

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Just as though it was trying to curb the spread of a disease like COVID-19, the university moved quickly to control the malware's reach: "We quarantined several IT systems within the School of Medicine as a safety measure, and we successfully isolated the incident from the core UCSF network.

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RSA Conference: Carbon Black to introduce Streaming Prevention

Network World

Called Streaming Prevention, the technology can find both malware and non-malware attacks by analyzing endpoint activities in the context of the sequences in which they unfold. It does this by having endpoint agents tag events as they occur and streaming them to Carbon Black’s analysis engine in the cloud.

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Smooth Cybercriminals: Google Warns of Iran-Backed APT Hackers

SecureWorld News

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S. Read Google's official TAG blog to learn more about the technical details.

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