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Advanced Persistent Threat (APT): An attack in which an unauthorized actor, often a nationstate,employs highly sophisticated technology and/or tactics to gain and maintain surreptitious access to a network. The intention of an APT may be to steal data, or to

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), announced that SC Magazine, named Aruba IntroSpect as this year’s best product for detecting and stopping increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks due to mobile, IoT, and cloud. These types of breaches have cost global

Microsoft last week unveiled Trusted Cyber Physical Systems (TCPS), a new solution designed to help protect critical infrastructure against modern cyber threats. Microsoft provided the recent Triton and NotPetya attacks as examples of significant threats hitting critical infrastructure. Triton was

The world’s largest online marketplace for selling and lauching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks was shut down this week as part of Operation Power Off, an international investigation into the so-called Webstresser.org site. The effort was led by the UK National

GravityRAT, a remote access trojan targeting organisations across India, boats an unusual trick for evading analysis: taking a reading of the target computer’s temperature. The trojan only detonates its payload if the thermal reading is below a certain level, because

If you receive a link for a video, even if it looks exciting, sent by someone (or your friend) on Facebook messenger—just don’t click on it without taking a second thought. Cybersecurity researchers from Trend Micro are warning users of