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Microsoft did door-to-door router replacements to stop Trickbot malware

The Verge

Microsoft says it’s gone door-to-door replacing routers compromised with the Trickbot malware in Brazil and Latin America, hoping to squash an international hacking group. Eradicating malware from routers can be particularly difficult for users , making in-person replacement a surprisingly effective tactic.

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School Gives Malware Infected Laptops to Students

SecureWorld News

Unfortunately, a number of the laptops sent out were discovered to have malware. English students' laptops infected with malware. BBC News has reported that upon delivery of the laptops to students, teachers began sharing information on an online forum about suspicious files found on laptops that went to Bradford school students.

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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

SecureWorld News

Two-step phishing attacks are on the rise, with attackers using convincing emails that resemble legitimate vendor communications, often related to electronic signatures, orders, invoices, or tracking information. The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals.

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Defending Against the Threats to Our Security

SecureWorld News

Ransomware is malware that encrypts the victim's data and demands a ransom for its decryption. Cyberattacks are not only a threat to individuals and businesses but also to national security. According to Microsoft, nearly 80% of nation-state attackers targeted government agencies, think tanks, and other non-government organizations.

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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 the first quarter of 2014, the company’s advanced research division—Invincea Labs—secured $8.1M 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.

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Cybersecurity: Is AI Ready for Primetime In Cyber Defense?

CTOvision

Last year, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM began offering machine learning tools in the cloud, allowing developers easy access to an array of tools previously available only to data scientists. Analysts believe that most malware goes undetected from 100-250+ days. What if machines could detect malware early in the kill chain?

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Microsoft Photo). “Eventually” Gates wrote, “our software should be so fundamentally secure that customers never even worry about it.”

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