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Cyberspies tap free tools to make powerful malware framework

Network World

Over the past year, a group of attackers has managed to infect hundreds of computers belonging to government agencies with a malware framework stitched together from JavaScript code and publicly available tools. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Malware distributors are switching to less suspicious file types

Network World

After aggressively using JavaScript email attachments to distribute malware for the past year, attackers are now switching to less suspicious file types to trick users. Last week, researchers from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center warned about a new wave of spam emails that carried malicious.LNK files inside ZIP archives.

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Microsoft warns of critical Windows DNS Server vulnerability that’s ‘wormable’

The Verge

Such a flaw could allow attackers to create special malware that remotely executes code on Windows servers and creates malicious DNS queries that could even eventually lead to a company’s infrastructure being breached. a principal security program manager at Microsoft.

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Insider Threat: A perspective on how to address the increasing risk

CTOvision

Spanning a wide range of malicious activities from destructive malware and denial of service attacks, to the theft of intellectual property and even espionage, cyber threats pose a significant risk to any business. In recent years, multiple high-profile, high-impact breaches have raised awareness of the cyber threat. The Insider Threat.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Beyond MITRE ATT&CK

ForAllSecure

Duff: ATT&CK itself is just a project within the MITRE Corporation, right, so it was originally spun up as a research and development effort that was being done about eight years ago now. It traditionally supports the research for several U.S. Vamosi: Perhaps a bit more background is needed. First MITRE and then ATTACK.

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