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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

Malvertising acts as a vessel for malware propagation. Scammers and malware operators are increasingly adept at mimicking popular brands in their ad snippets, which makes it problematic for the average user to tell the wheat from the chaff. One of the biggest pitfalls with malvertising is how difficult it can be to detect.

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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

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Critical Start today released its biannual Cyber Intelligence Report, featuring the top threats observed in the first half of 2023 and emerging cybersecurity trends impacting the healthcare, financial services, and state and local government industries. The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals.

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Lazarus APT Targeting Cryptocurrency, CISA Warns

SecureWorld News

The threat actors use social engineering to encourage individuals to download trojanized cryptocurrency applications on Windows or macOS operating systems. They use the apps to gain access to the victim's computer and install malware across the network environment, stealing private keys and exploiting other security gaps.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

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Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian Software Company

SecureWorld News

Most recently, Russian threat actors have taken aim at a large software development company in Ukraine that is utilized by various government agencies within the country, according to a report from Cisco Talos. Agents can be deployed on a variety of operating systems (OS) or architectures (amd64, arm, etc.).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software. It also lead to even more testing of election system devices in other states. We even rigged the system to play the Michigan Fight Song every time somebody voted.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software. It also lead to even more testing of election system devices in other states. We even rigged the system to play the Michigan Fight Song every time somebody voted.

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