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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO

A report by Verizon found that 85% of all data breaches occur due to social engineering and system intrusions caused by basic human errors. In the past few months, infostealer malware has gained ground. Both the software and its data are sold on the dark web in the form of Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS).

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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. According to a Reuters report, these ransomware bandits also breached the systems of several other companies operating in manufacturing, retail, and technology.

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The changing face of cybersecurity threats in 2023

CIO

government and the companies that are best prepared to provide safe-by-default solutions to uplift the whole ecosystem,” says a report published by the Homeland Security Department’s Cyber Safety Review Board. “Organizations must act now to protect themselves, and the Board identified tangible ways to do so, with the help of the U.S.

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SafeBreach discloses vulnerabilities in Avast, AVG, Avira

The Parallax

While all software will suffer vulnerabilities and breaches, these latest vulnerabilities are part of a larger call to question what steps antivirus software vendors are taking to secure their products, especially given the deep hooks they have into computer systems. The first barrier is to keep everything up-to-date.

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The hidden costs of your helpdesk

CIO

When you add multi-factor authentication (MFA) resets to the picture, that number is likely even higher. Most authentication methods are actually quite easy to get around, and in many cases were never intended to be security factors. But what happens when a user can’t access their authenticator app?