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Law enforcement agencies have dismantled a major cyber-criminal network responsible for malware-based attacks that have been harassing victims across the globe for years. The network, called Avalanche, operated as many as 500,000 infected computers on a daily basis and was responsible for delivering malware through phishing email attacks. Avalanche has been active since at least 2009, […]

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Researchers have discovered a new attack method that could allow malicious actors to disrupt and manipulate the physical processes managed by programmable logic controllers (PLCs) without being detected. The attack method was detailed on Thursday at the Black Hat Europe 2016 security conference by Ali Abbasi, a Ph.D. candidate in the distributed and embedded system […]

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Our recent trendsider twitter chat focused on ransomware. If you haven’t heard about ransomware yet, the odds are good that you will soon. This is major growth area for cyber-criminals. Ransomware variants continue to pop up, each a bit more vicious than the last. Security tools continue to block and prevent ransomware, criminals continue to […]

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