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Pirate These PC Games and Get Free Bonus Malware Now!

Gizmodo

Someone is using cracked copies of top video game titles to install crypto-mining malware on PCs belonging to hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting victims—a ploy that’s netted the criminals a hefty $2 million so far. Read more.

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North Korean APT Uses Fake Job Offers as Linux Malware Lure

SecureWorld News

To our knowledge, this is the first public mention of this major North Korea-aligned threat actor using Linux malware as part of this operation." Most campaigns the general public are exposed to are 'wide net,' low-confidence and low-click rate cyberattacks. Don’t make risky clicks, patch your systems and use a password manager.

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iDefense IntelGraph: A next-generation threat intelligence platform to provide context around threats

CTOvision

As part of Verisign, iDefense is also part of the team that has helped keep the.COM,NET,EDU and.GOV DNS infrastructure secure and 100 percent available. Now information from the most comprehensive database of threat intelligence (technical and human intelligence on actors, malware, exploits, targets, vulnerabilities, etc.)

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Verisign: Security Services

CTOvision

Many in the technology community know Verisign for their domain name registration heritage and their operation of the.com,net,edu and.gov top level domains. With this post we are initiating coverage of Verisign. Verisign has successfully operated the.com DNS infrastructure for almost 18 years without an outage.

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4 Ways North Korea Is Targeting Security Researchers

SecureWorld News

They've used these Twitter profiles for posting links to their blog, posting videos of their claimed exploits and for amplifying and retweeting posts from other accounts that they control. In the video, they purported to show a successful working exploit that spawns a cmd.exe shell, but a careful review of the video shows the exploit is fake.

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Cybersecurity: Is AI Ready for Primetime In Cyber Defense?

CTOvision

Every time you rent a video or write a review, Netflix turns your actions into recommendations—what movie should you watch next. Now Dr. Wang works with Neural Nets and Deep Learning to take a “bite out of crime” She emphasizes that machines are not replacing analysts. What if machines could detect malware early in the kill chain?

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How to protect your PC from ransomware using Windows’ built-in protection

The Verge

Ransomware — malware that prevents you from accessing your files unless you pay the hacker that infected your computer — has been an issue plaguing computer users and businesses for years. The first consists of malware scans, which are on by default, and which you can learn more about here. Illustration by Maria Chimishkyan.

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