Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss this week’s Virus Bulletin conference in Denver and CNBC’s Cambridge Cyber Summit at MIT, the NSA contractor arrest, APT false flags, and more.
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss this week’s Virus Bulletin conference in Denver and CNBC’s Cambridge Cyber Summit at MIT, the NSA contractor arrest, APT false flags, and more.
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Researchers have spotted notable code overlap between the Sunburst backdoor and a known Turla weapon.
Researchers at Recorded Future report a rise in cracked Cobalt Strike and other open-source adversarial tools with easy-to-use interfaces.
The agency said the malware has already compromised more than 150 organizations and provided insight into its ransomware-as-a-service behavior.
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