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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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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.

Industry 147
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Dulling the impact of AI-fueled cyber threats with AI

CIO

These days, digital spoofing, phishing attacks, and social engineering attempts are more convincing than ever due to bad actors refining their techniques and developing more sophisticated threats with AI. Moreover, AI can reduce false positives more effectively than rule-based security systems.

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Cyber Guardians: INE Security Champions Cybersecurity Training During National Physicians Week 2025

CIO

Continuous training ensures that protecting patient data and systems becomes as second nature as protecting patients physical health. Breaches undermine that confidence: about 66% of patients say they would switch healthcare providers if a breach compromised their personal data due to poor security practices.

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Harnessing AI to Strengthen OT Security Against Modern Cyber Threats

Palo Alto Networks

With advancements in AI and large language models for faster data preparation and streamlined malware development, such attacks could see their timelines slashed even further, potentially taking as little as three hours from start to finish. OT environments, however, face unique challenges.

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Radar Trends to Watch: November 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The model aims to answer natural language questions about system status and performance based on telemetry data. Google is open-sourcing SynthID, a system for watermarking text so AI-generated documents can be traced to the LLM that generated them. These are small models, designed to work on resource-limited “edge” systems.