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On Chinese "Spy Trains"

Schneier on Security

It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. If there's any lesson from all of this, it's that everybody spies using the Internet. China denied having done so , of course. The United States does it. Our allies do it.

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Zloader, another botnet, bites the dust

Malwarebytes

The Zloader at hand is a botnet made up of computing devices in businesses, hospitals, schools, and homes around the world which is run by a global internet-based organized crime gang operating malware as a service that is designed to steal and extort money. Legal action. We also saw this method recently used against the Strontium group.

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Microsoft has taken legal and technical action to dismantle the Zloader botnet

Security Affairs

Microsoft dismantled the C2 infrastructure used by the ZLoader trojan with the help of telecommunications providers around the world and cybersecurity firms. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced to have shut down dozens C2 servers used by the infamous ZLoader botnet. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug. 2020?

Security Boulevard

13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal, a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus and security products. Commerce Department that handles telecommunications and Internet policy. The post Did Someone at the Commerce Dept. Find a SolarWinds Backdoor in Aug.

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Are Bad Bots Unleashing Havoc in the Digital Realm?

SecureWorld News

of total internet traffic in 2022, marking a significant 5.1% These findings shed light on the escalating prevalence of bots and the shifting dynamics of internet users. Internet Traffic in 2022 2. Gaming (58.7%) and telecommunications (47.7%) had the highest bad bot traffic on their websites and applications.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

Expanding attack surfaces require additional skills to secure, maintain, and monitor an ever-expanding environment of assets such as mobile, cloud, and the internet of things (IoT). Managed endpoint security installs, configures, and maintains endpoint protection tools ( antivirus , endpoint detection and response (EDR), etc.)

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

From a different angle, reporting from The Intercept revealed mobile surveillance capabilities available to Iran for the purposes of domestic investigations that leverage direct access to (and cooperation of) local telecommunication companies. In the past years, we have seen vulnerability researchers increasingly focus on emailing software.

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