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Iranian Threat Group Befriends Victims

07

Sep

2022

An Iranian state-sponsored group in operation since 2015 relies on highly targeted social engineering attack individuals and organizations that Tehran deems enemies of the regime, says a new report from cyberthreat intelligence firm Mandiant. Targets of the threat actor Mandiant newly dubs APT42 include members of the Iranian diaspora as well as Western think tanks, […]

House passes second cyberthreat information-sharing bill

24

Apr

2015

For the second time in two days, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to pass a bill that would give legal protections to companies that share cyberattack information. The House on Thursday voted 355 to 63 to pass the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act (NCPA), which would protect companies from customer lawsuits after they […]

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Malware writers take a page from the spam industry to evade detection

14

Apr

2015

While the volume of cyberthreats declined slightly last year, their sophistication increased, according to a new report from Websense #security Labs. For example, they’ve picked up some techniques from the spam industry. “The spammers would take an email and modify it 100,000 times to make it look a little different,” said Bob Hansmann, director of […]

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