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Many Security Operations Centers (SOCs) find themselves inundated with and overwhelmed by large volumes of false positives, non-actionable alerts, and noise. People often ask me how they can address this situation to improve and strengthen their signal-to-noise ratio.

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Several antivirus solutions erroneously detect some Bitcoin files as the Stoned computer virus that was popular more than a quarter of a century ago. These are false positives triggered by the fact that the 27-year-old virus signature was uploaded into the Bitcoin blockchain. This is possible because when a transaction is made, a small snippet […]

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Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users that the Airpush Mobile Ad network is often being exploited to spread Android.SmsSend Trojans. Unfortunately, messages displayed by Airpush can confuse users into downloading malware. Doctor Web has been receiving complaints regarding false positives by Dr.Web for Android; the anti-virus had been detecting Android.SmsSend.315.origin in the application […]

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