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Dark Reading: Newly Discovered Android Trojan Hijacks Routers
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Switcher takes advantage of Android users to infect WiFi routers in 'dangerous new trend.' 1/3/2017 By Jai Vijayan The most common way for threat actors to compromise a network router is to att READ MORE
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Dark Reading: 'Root' & The New Age Of IoT-Based DDoS Attacks
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Last Friday's massive DDoS that exploited online cameras and DVRs was simple to pull off -- and a new chapter in online attacks. 10/24/2016 By Kelly Jackson Higgins The distributed denial-of-se READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Password-Stealing Trojan Now Also Attacks With Cerber Ransomware
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Weaponized Microsoft Word Documents spread one-two punch via the infamous Betabot. 9/1/2016 By Kelly Jackson Higgins An old-school banking Trojan has been reincarnated as a weaponized document READ MORE
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Dark Reading: An Inside Look At The New Apple Mac Malware 'Eleanor'
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Researchers from Bitdefender find security hole that opens up a backdoor to the Mac OS X system. 7/8/2016 Steve Zurier Apple Mac users, take cover: security researchers at Bitdefender recently READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Attackers Wrapping New Tools In Old Malware To Target Medical Devi...
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Hospital equipment running old operating systems providing safe harbor for data theft, TrapX says. 6/28/2016 By Jai Vijayan Medical devices running outdated operating systems like Windows XP an READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Dridex Malware Now Used For Stealing Payment Card Data
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An analysis of Dridex infrastructure shows dangerous changes, potentially new operators. 4/8/2016 By Jai Vijayan New analysis of the command and control panel and attack mechanisms of the Dride READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Ransomware Will Spike As More Cybercrime Groups Move In
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The lure of easy money attracting organized groups is a trend that spells more trouble for enterprises, researchers say. 3/16/2016 By Jai Vijayan Look for a sharp uptick in the quantity and qua READ MORE
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Dark Reading: New Trojan Xbot A Swiss-Army Knife Of Malicious Features
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Malware can steal banking and card info, encrypt SD cards, intercept messages and more, say researchers at Palo Alto Networks 2/19/2016 By Jai Vijayan The creators of a new Android Trojan dubbe READ MORE
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Dark Reading: 'Spymel' Is Latest Example Of Attackers Using Signed Malware
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What was once reserved for targeted attacks is being increasingly used to distribute common crimeware payloads says Zscaler. 1/8/2016 By Jai Vijayan In another instance of the growing tendency READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Newly Discovered 'Master' Cyber Espionage Group Trumps Stuxnet
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The so-called Equation Group epitomizes the goal of persistence in cyber spying--reprogramming hard drives and hacking other targets such as air-gapped computers--and points to possible US connection. READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Browsers Are The Window To Enterprise Infection
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Ponemon report says infections dominated by browser-based exploits. 2/2/2015 By Ericka Chickowski The enterprise malware problem is largely an enterprise browser insecurity problem, according t READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Internet Of Things Security Reaches Tipping Point
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Public safety issues bubble to the top in security flaw revelations. 8/13/2014 By Kelly Jackson Higgins It all began more than four years ago with HD Moore's groundbreaking research in embedded READ MORE
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Dark Reading: How Malware Writers Cheat AV Zero-Day Detection
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A researcher reverse engineers AVG's code emulation engine after easily bypassing other major antivirus software products. 8/4/2014 By Kelly Jackson Higgins As an experiment, Kyle Adams wrote w READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Secure Browser Alternatives On The Rise
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The sandboxed browser on the desktop, the disposable browser session from the cloud, and now a high-security browser that by default blocks third-party cookies and online ads are all options By Kel READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Lessons From 5 Advanced Attacks Of 2013
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From Cryptolocker to the destructive attacks on Korean firms to the massive flood that made Spamhaus inaccessible, attackers delivered some hard lessons in 2013 By Robert Lemos December 26, 2013 READ MORE
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Dark Reading: We're All The APT
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XKeyscore, FoxAcid: APT lines are blurring By Tom Parker September 27, 2013 Despite the original, long-lost, but well-intentioned meaning of the security industry's favorite acronym, lines have READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Report: 8 Out of 10 Users Infected With A Trojan
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Trojans overshadow all other forms of malware in second quarter, new study from PandaLabs shows By Kelly Jackson Higgins September 26, 2013 Trojans are king: They now account for more than thre READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Below The Application: The High Risk Of Low-Level Threats
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In-memory attacks and rootkits may hit your systems below the OS. Here are some tips to help your defense By Brad Causey July 09, 2013 Excerpted from "Below the Application: The High Risk of Lo READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Putting Vulnerabilities And Threats Into Context
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Advanced security research should play a role in your security program and be ready when science projects become weaponized attacks By Mike Rothman June 07, 2013 Since I'm the new blogger in Da READ MORE
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Dark Reading: BIOS Bummer: New Malware Can Bypass BIOS Security
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Researchers expect to release proofs-of-concept at Black Hat that show how malware can infect BIOS, persist past updates, and fool the TPM into thinking everything's fine By Ericka Chickowski May READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Mass Customized Attacks Show Malware Maturity
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The malware universe is typically divided into targeted attacks and mass, opportunistic attacks, but a middle category--mass customized malware--poses a more serious threat for business By Robert L READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Advanced Persistent Threats: The New Reality
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Once rare and sophisticated, the APT is now becoming a common attack. Is your organization ready? By Michael Cobb May 09, 2013 [Excerpted from "Advanced Persistent Threats: The New Reality," a READ MORE
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Dark Reading: PandaLabs Q1 Report: Trojans Account For 80% Of Malware Infections...
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In addition, China is the world's most infected country with more than 50 percent of all computers riddled with malware May 03, 2013 Bracknell, May 3, 2013. PandaLabs, Panda Security's antimalwa READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Websites Harbor Fewer Flaws, But Most Have At Least One Serious Vu...
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SQL injection drops out of WhiteHat Security's top 10 website vulnerability list By Kelly Jackson Higgins May 02, 2013 Websites now contain fewer numbers of serious security vulnerabilities, bu READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Five Habits Of Highly Successful Malware
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It's no secret that malware is dodging defenses; security experts pinpoint successful strategies, including the use of real-time communications, frequent disguises, and laying low By Robert Lemos READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Should Insiders Really Be Your Biggest Concern?
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Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report shows that by volume of breach occurrences, external attackers cause problems the majority of the time By Ericka Chickowski April 23, 2013 Yesterday' READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Time To Dump Antivirus As Endpoint Protection?
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Attackers find it easy to avoid signature- and heuristic-based anti-malware defenses. Experts recommend alternatives to antivirus programs be used alongside them, not in lieu of them By Robert Lemo READ MORE
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Dark Reading: 10 Web Threats That Could Harm Your Business
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Easily overlooked vulnerabilities can put your data and business at risk Mar 15, 2013 By Robert Lemos SQL injections accounted for about 7% of Web attacks in 2011 and looked to be petering out, READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Move Over, APTs -- The RAM-Based Advanced Volatile Threat Is Spinn...
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By attacking random access memory, AVT creators make their exploits less persistent -- and harder to detect Feb 22, 2013 By Tim Wilson For security pros, the advanced persistent threat (APT) h READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Malware: The Next Generation
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Zero-day and rapidly morphing malware is proliferating across the Web. Is your enterprise ready to stop it? Feb 04, 2013 By Ericka Chickowski If January is anything to go by, then 2013 should b READ MORE
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Dark Reading: How Cybercriminals Choose Their Targets And Tactics
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Targeted attacks are becoming pervasive. Here's a look at how those targets are chosen -- and how your organization might avoid being one of them Jan 13, 2013 By Randy George [Excerpted from "H READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Automated Malware Analysis Under Attack
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Malware writers go low-tech in their latest attempt to escape detection, waiting for human input -- a mouse click -- before running their code Dec 20, 2012 By Robert Lemos The world suddenly ch READ MORE
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Dark Reading: 4 Signs That Apple's Sharpening Its Security Game
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Apple is quietly making some subtle, incremental security moves in the face of new threats to its products Jun 28, 2012 By Kelly Jackson Higgins Subtle but significant signals over the past few READ MORE
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Dark Reading: When Antivirus Fails, All Is Not Lost
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Following Flame, Stuxnet, and Duqu, even the antivirus industry is questioning its ability to stop targeted attacks. Yet other technologies exist to catch malware in the corporate network Jun 05, 2 READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Malware Encryption Efforts Mixed, But Getting Stronger
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Russian botnets mostly use crypto, Chinese attacks mostly don't, but attack analysis finds that the bad guys are increasingly using better encryption Apr 10, 2012 By Robert Lemos When a new sof READ MORE
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Dark Reading: SCADA Security In A Post-Stuxnet World
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More SCADA bugs, exploits in the wake of Stuxnet, but gradually improving security in some products, new data shows Nov 06, 2012 By Kelly Jackson Higgins New data points illustrate just what a READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Newly Discovered Mac OS X, Android Trojans Reflect Cybercriminals'...
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New crimeware kit is being built specifically for OS X, and new Android Trojan builds a botnet Feb 28, 2011 By Kelly Jackson Higgins Microsoft's and Adobe's software are still some of the bigge READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Many Microsoft Vulnerabilities Not Exploitable With Proper System ...
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New study by eEye finds that just disabling some unneeded features can mitigate most attacks against flaws Feb 23, 2011 By Kelly Jackson Higgins Not all security vulnerabilities can actually be READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Legitimate Sites Are Most Likely To Serve Up Malware, Cisco Study ...
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About a third of all malware is encountered in the U.S., Cisco annual security study finds Jan 31, 2013 By Tim Wilson Legitimate sites and advertisements on the Web are much more likely to del READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Most Popular Internet Sites Consistently Serving Up Malware
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Study of Alexa's top 25,000 sites finds 58 serving drive-by downloads of malicious code Apr 03, 2012 By Tim Wilson Some of the Internet's oldest and most popular websites are being used to deli READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Tech Insight: Layering Up For Malware Protection
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No one layer of threat detection technology can sufficiently protect the enterprise today from malicious code - a look at five best practices Jan 21, 2011 By Adam Ely Malware has traditionally READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Tech Insight: Six Security Threats You Need To Know About
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Security pros will have their hands full with revamped versions of current threats, while new ones also will bubble to the top Jan 07, 2011 By John Sawyer Security professionals were inundated READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Possible New Threat: Malware That Targets Hardware
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Researchers demonstrate proof-of-concept for developing malware that attacks specific hardware processors with 'surgical' precision Nov 17, 2010 By Kelly Jackson Higgins French researchers say READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Malware Advancing Faster Than Companies Can Analyze It
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Only 17 percent catch malware targeting their organizations, new survey by Forrest Anderson Research and commissioned by Norman ASA finds Mar 08, 2012 By Kelly Jackson Higgins IT is worried: Mo READ MORE
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Dark Reading: 70 Percent Of Infected Consumer Machines Hit With Multiple Malware...
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New Sourcefire Immunet and ClamAV data provides snapshot of consumer malware threats Aug 09, 2011 By Kelly Jackson Higgins Most infected consumer Windows machines are infested with more than on READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Windows 8 Security Stresses Exploit Prevention
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A look at some of the key security features in the Microsoft's new OS Dec 20, 2012 By Kelly Jackson Higgins Windows 8 won't be under the Christmas tree for most enterprises this year: It's too READ MORE
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Dark Reading: 80 Percent Of Attacks In 2012 Were Redirects From Legitimate Sites
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This and more in the new Sophos Threat Report -- outlining the changing threats and new platforms challenging IT security Dec 04, 2012 Sophos today released its Security Threat Report 2013, a de READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Companies Need Defenses Against Mobile Malware
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While infection rates -- at least in the U.S. -- remain low, cybercriminals are writing more malware for Android, Symbian, and other platforms. At some point, they'll find the right recipe for profit READ MORE
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Dark Reading: Researchers Report New, 'Indestructible' Botnet
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TDL-4 features new defenses, Kaspersky researchers say; other experts not so sure about the 'indestructible' part Jun 30, 2011 By Tim Wilson A new version of the TDL botnet features capabilitie READ MORE
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