Network World

AUGUST 18, 2016

Clothing retailer Eddie Bauer has informed customers that point-of-sale systems at its stores were hit by malware, enabling the theft of payment card information. and Canada, numbering about 350, were affected, a company spokesman disclosed Thursday. All the retailer’s stores in the U.S.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2023

Microsoft says the lawsuit mischaracterizes its contract with Hold Security, and the company will seek to dismiss it. The Redmond-based company says it will seek to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Hold Security this week in King County Superior Court in Seattle. Microsoft says the allegations mischaracterize its agreement with the firm.

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Network World

JANUARY 13, 2017

In February 2016, quick service restaurant The Wendy’s Company reported unusual payment card activity affecting some of its franchise restaurants. The breach was confirmed in May when the company revealed it had found evidence of malware on the affected stores’ point-of-sale systems. Click here to subscribe.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It is responsible for a number of high-profile attacks, including the massive 2016 NotPetya ransomware attack on the Ukrainian power grid that left a quarter of a million people without power. According to the OFAC, the sanctioned individuals "facilitate the distribution of malware and stolen data, and engage in various fraudulent schemes."

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2020

Last month, SecureWorld covered the curious case of two companies with Chinese operations, local taxes, and a secret digital backdoor. "A But the bank left out a critical detail about the software: it included malware.". The companies received an uninstaller for the backdoor. FBI issues new warning against Chinese tax software.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

According to Microsoft, the vulnerabilities allowed hackers to gain access to email accounts, and also gave them the ability to install malware that might let them back into those servers at a later time. Krebs and Wired report that the attack was carried out by Hafnium, a Chinese hacking group.

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Network World

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Although that kind of malware has been around for years, the current model of encrypting user files to hold data hostage came about just recently. Infections quadrupled in 2016, with the FBI estimating an average of 4,000 attacks a day. For example, ransomware has surged in the last year.

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Network World

APRIL 10, 2017

Attackers have been exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word for the past few months to compromise computers and infect them with malware. The first report about the attacks came Friday from antivirus vendor McAfee after the company's researchers analyzed some suspicious Word files spotted a day earlier.

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Network World

JANUARY 19, 2017

Earlier this week, Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of security awareness training company KnowBe4, looked at the data published by the Virus Bulletin , a site that tracks anti-virus detection rates. And the numbers didn't look good.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Ransomware is increasingly becoming a problem for companies, and the CEO of a leading computer security company says he fears 2017 could see entire companies shut down until they pay up, or risk losing all their data. Ransomware works by infiltrating a computer with malware and then encrypting all the files on the disk.

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CTOvision

JULY 30, 2016

28 July 2016--SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--RiskIQ, the leader in external threat management, today announced general availability for its Security Intelligence Services, a ground-breaking new product that uses the Internet itself as a detection system to automatically defend a network from cyber attacks. Bob Gourley. Email abuse.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve known for a while that Apple isn’t going to make iMessage available outside of iOS devices, but this trial showed exactly how thoroughly Apple has considered expanding iMessage into other operating systems — and exactly why the company doesn’t want to. 8] Apple is still worried about malware downloads on the Mac.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Since 2016, this cybercrime organization has been building customized tools to invade the world's telecommunications sector. According to the blog, at least 13 telecommunications companies have been breached by LightBasin since 2019. LightBasin also uses a long list of malware and other techniques to carry out their devious deeds.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The OFAC Advisory on these cybercrime payments specifically warns financial institutions, cyber insurance firms, and companies that facilitate payments on behalf of victims, that they may be violating OFAC regulations. OFAC designated the developer of Cryptolocker, Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, in December 2016.".

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

government estimates that these payments represent just a fraction of the economic harm caused by cyber-attacks, but they underscore the objectives of those who seek to weaponize technology for personal gain: to disrupt our economy and damage the companies, families, and individuals who depend on it for their livelihoods, savings, and futures.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 30, 2017

This reality of modern business was highlighted by the Information Security Community on LinkedIn through their 2016 Spotlight Report on “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD). 20% of surveyed organizations have suffered a mobile security breach, primarily driven by malware and malicious WiFi.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Damages: $350 million estimated loss in value of company. It was difficult timing for Yahoo, as they were in the process of being purchased by Verizon, decreasing the value of the company by $350 million. The company has been faulted for a number of security and response lapses, the application vulnerability being prime among them.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. TechCrunch is a news website focused on information technology companies, ranging in size from startups to established NASDAQ-100 firms. Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. TechCrunch. Tech Gadget and Computer HardwareBlogs.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. TechCrunch is a news website focused on information technology companies, ranging in size from startups to established NASDAQ-100 firms. Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. TechCrunch. Tech Gadget and Computer HardwareBlogs.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Malware authors routinely use VirusTotal (a system that runs many commercial anti-malware solutions) to modify their malware to evade detection. In 2016, researchers at the University of Virginia showed they could evade state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for detecting malware in PDFs.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

And because Netflix is used by over 200 million people around the world, the lack of official support is a big deal that you should be aware of at the outset of a review for a nearly $2,000 projector from a company you might never have heard of. Xgimi got its start in 2014 in China. Photography by Thomas Ricker / The Verge.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company. TechCrunch is a news website focused on information technology companies, ranging in size from startups to established NASDAQ-100 firms. Malwarebytes is a leader of malware prevention and protection. TechCrunch. Tech Gadget and Computer HardwareBlogs.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Damages: $350 million estimated loss in value of company. It was difficult timing for Yahoo, as they were in the process of being purchased by Verizon, decreasing the value of the company by $350 million. The company has been faulted for a number of security and response lapses, the application vulnerability being prime among them.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Malware authors routinely use VirusTotal (a system that runs many commercial anti-malware solutions) to modify their malware to evade detection. In 2016, researchers at the University of Virginia showed they could evade state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for detecting malware in PDFs.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Malware authors routinely use VirusTotal (a system that runs many commercial anti-malware solutions) to modify their malware to evade detection. In 2016, researchers at the University of Virginia showed they could evade state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for detecting malware in PDFs.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. We still have malware. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working?

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GeekWire

JULY 19, 2021

” The attribution of the Exchange Server hacks builds on Microsoft’s identification of the hackers in March as the Chinese group Hafnium, which the company described at the time as a “highly skilled and sophisticated actor.” Both actions are part of a broader attempt by the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

After breaches like SolarWinds, companies pledge to improve their digital hygiene. For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

After breaches like SolarWinds, companies pledge to improve their digital hygiene. For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Data Breach Prevention Series: Weaponized Documents are Dominant Malware Delivery Vector. AMD promises two new GCN GPUs for 2016 - KitGuru. Labor Department seeking companies for Benefits.gov support. Mitre Unveils $100,000 Contest to Seek Detection Systems for Unauthorized Drones. Google Fiber's got nothing on ESnet - GCN.com.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The motivation for breaching Uber, the hacker said, is because the company had weak security systems in place and that drivers should receive higher pay. After initial access was gained, they were able to access other internal systems, including the company Slack channel, Uber source code, email, and some other systems.

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2021

” The company is urging those running Exchange Server to install updates as soon as possible. ” The company issued updates to address the bugs on March 2 for Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019, and also made an exception to update Exchange Server 2010 despite it being beyond the normal support lifecycle.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 25, 2021

In July 2016, just before the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil, something called the McLaren Report came out. sent spearphishing emails that tried to get people to click fake links or open documents that would install malware. During the 2016 U.S. Here is the story. used proxy servers to hide their true location.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And Jordan now has his own company. When we founded the company eight years ago. And so it's kind of part of our culture, even if it wasn't part of the business plan, necessarily, of the company and so vectors have several of those connotations as well as like, attack vector, because we kind of had an offensive work.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

As builders of software that helps companies track and hit their goals, Seattle startup Ally can check off a big achievement after winning Startup of the Year. In 2007, he co-founded Chronus , a company that built digital tools for employee development programs. See this post for more background on this category. .”

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Specific problems include physical security of the cash inside the terminal, malware threats to software and the use of data skimming devices. To deal with these tectonic shifts, financial institutions are now looking to partner with technology services companies. Jackson 2016 ) Follow me at [link].

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m exploring a novel database operating system that promises to be disruptive to how we mitigate malware today. What if we could further evolve the basic operating system beyond just managing resources but also now mitigating any malware trying to make changes. The point of this?

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