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Government Agencies Discover New Chinese Malware Strain

SecureWorld News

CISA reports on Chinese malware strain. And it's a malware strain used specifically by the Chinese government. A recent CISA Malware Analysis Report (with contributions from the FBI and DoD), outlines this new malware variant. How should you defend yourself or your organization about this new malware variant?

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Data is the perimeter, defend it that way

Forrester IT

Unless you have been living under a rock or possibly hiding in the mountains of Montana with a giant beard and eating way too many government issued MRE's you probably heard about the nuclear bomb of a ransomware attack that kicked off last week. Data is the perimeter, defend it that way. Welcome to the post apocalypse folks. Cyber Attacks.

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Stop Malware Attacks and Online Identity Theft

Galido

Malware means a malicious or intrusive software application that is coded for executing on the targeted device without notifying its user or the owner. Affecting a mobile phone, a computer, a laptop, or a network server, malware interrupts computing operations, hijacks networks, or access systems.

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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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Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers for Its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M in Advanced Research Contracts for Its Labs Division

CTOvision

in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. FAIRFAX, VA—April 7, 2014 —Invincea, Inc., contract with the U.S.

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Operation Triangulation: Could Apple be an NSA agent, Russia asks

Dataconomy

The campaign, which they are calling Operation Triangulation, uses zero-click exploits to infect devices via the iMessage platform. Once infected, the malware runs with root privileges, giving the attacker complete control over the device and user data. The malware then uses a zero-click exploit to gain root privileges on the device.

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This new spyware named “SpyNote” can read SMS, access camera

Dataconomy

This malicious app poses as a routine operating system update, deceiving users into granting it special access privileges. When this Android package (APK) is installed, it discreetly places the SpyNote malware on the device, gaining access to Accessibility services.

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