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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

Its success was predicated not on “zero-day” vulnerabilities or new forms of malicious software, but rather on older, known malware delivered via an all-too-familiar method: phishing. The malware included hacked versions of end-to-end encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp.

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Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

TechCrunch

His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations. Some compared this to the 2016 left-pad incident that briefly broke a large part of the internet after the project’s developer deleted his widely-used code in protest. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Even North Korea has an antivirus program—but it’s used for spying

The Parallax

Malware and antivirus software usually go together like tacos and pickles. Pretty much any software can be targeted to be ripped off,” says Mark Lechtik, a security researcher on the Check Point Malware Research Team who led the investigation into SiliVaccine. Leave it to North Korea to combine them like peanut butter and jelly.

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Ransomware attacks against hospitals: A timeline

The Parallax

While there’s no ransomware-specific cost estimate to the health care business, Verizon’s annual Data Breach Report for 2018 estimates that ransomware is included in 85 percent of the successful malware attacks against hospitals. Cybersecurity researchers at Cylance estimated that the number of ransomware attacks tripled in 2017.

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Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Recent advances in AI have been helped by three factors: Access to big data generated from e-commerce, businesses, governments, science, wearables, and social media. Financial services companies use AI-based natural language processing tools to analyze brand sentiment from social media platforms and provide actionable advice.

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Fed Tech Roundup November 17

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Data Breach Prevention Series: Weaponized Documents are Dominant Malware Delivery Vector. AMD promises two new GCN GPUs for 2016 - KitGuru. Social media done right: Managing all channels with a single tool - GCN.com. Mitre Unveils $100,000 Contest to Seek Detection Systems for Unauthorized Drones.

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How AI continues to reshape the cybersecurity arsenal

CIO

Red team assessments encompass the activities of phishing, DDoS, session takeovers, client-side attacks, social engineering and more, which can often be missing in black and white box testing. Reverse engineering has always been a neglected side for developers and a Swiss army knife for attackers.

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