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Snake cyberespionage malware is ready to bite Mac users

Network World

The group, known in the security industry as Snake, Turla or Uroburos, has been active since at least 2007 and has been responsible for some of the most complex cyberespionage attacks. A sophisticated Russian cyberespionage group is readying attacks against Mac users and has recently ported its Windows backdoor program to macOS.

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Protecting Against the Increasing Malvertising Threat

CTOvision

Malvertising is increasingly being deployed by threat actors to spread malware, including ransomware and scams, and redirect users from legitimate websites to phishing and exploit kit–hosting sites. The threat from malvertising is increasing, however, there are opportunities for organizations and individuals to mitigate their digital risk.

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Evil Corp Makes a Comeback with WastedLocker Ransomware

SecureWorld News

In existence since around 2007, Evil Corp malware — also known as the Dridex gang — gradually became one of the largest malware and spam botnets on the internet. Also, the U.S. Department of Justice was charging high-profile Evil Corp hackers for their crimes.

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The Attack We Have Long Predicted Just Occurred: Highly destructive cyber attacks drop a power grid

CTOvision

An article posted in the Ukrainian news services TSN reported that massive outages suffered in the country were caused by highly destructive malware that infected at least three regional power authorities in Ukraine. Bob Gourley.

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RarBG shutdown: Check out the best alternatives to try now

Dataconomy

RarBG was established in 2007 as a BitTorrent tracker for Bulgaria. Using torrents to exchange and access files online may be very beneficial, but it also exposes you to dangers like malware infestations. If you’re not careful, malware can enter torrent files in a variety of ways and seriously harm your device or data.

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Researchers dismantle decade-long Iranian cyberespionage operation

Network World

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks came across the group's activities earlier this year, but found evidence that it has been operating since at least 2007. Its main tool is a custom malware program dubbed Infy, which was repeatedly improved over the years.

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The CTO made me do it - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

This scene has been playing over and over every year at most businesses ever since the iPhone first came out in 2007. BYOD has, in many ways become much more difficult than it was in the summer of 2007. of course, the answer is no but you don’t have much of a choice now, his device has to be enabled. Tags Applications. Crapplications.

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