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The US Is Banning Kaspersky

Posted on By infossl
antivirus, cyberespionage, espionage, national security policy, Security technology, Uncategorized

This move has been coming for a long time. The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning the company from selling its products to new US-based customers starting on July 20, with the company only allowed to provide software updates to existing customers through September 29. The ban—­the first such action under authorities given to … Read More “The US Is Banning Kaspersky” »

Arresting IT Administrators

Posted on By infossl
antivirus, cyberattack, law enforcement, patching, Security technology, Uncategorized

This is one way of ensuring that IT keeps up with patches: Albanian prosecutors on Wednesday asked for the house arrest of five public employees they blame for not protecting the country from a cyberattack by alleged Iranian hackers. Prosecutors said the five IT officials of the public administration department had failed to check the … Read More “Arresting IT Administrators” »

US Government Exposes North Korean Malware

Posted on By infossl
antivirus, malware, nationalsecuritypolicy, northkorea, Security technology

US Cyber Command has uploaded North Korean malware samples to the VirusTotal aggregation repository, adding to the malware samples it uploaded in February. The first of the new malware variants, COPPERHEDGE, is described as a Remote Access Tool (RAT) “used by advanced persistent threat (APT) cyber actors in the targeting of cryptocurrency exchanges and related … Read More “US Government Exposes North Korean Malware” »

Signed Malware

Posted on By infossl
academicpapers, antivirus, certificates, forgery, malware, Security technology, signatures, stuxnet

Stuxnet famously used legitimate digital certificates to sign its malware. A research paper from last year found that the practice is much more common than previously thought. Now, researchers have presented proof that digitally signed malware is much more common than previously believed. What’s more, it predated Stuxnet, with the first known instance occurring in … Read More “Signed Malware” »