Gong Xi Fa Cai! It is the beginning of a new year. All of us at Menlo Security hope this new year brings you much joy, good health and prosperity.
Gong Xi Fa Cai! It is the beginning of a new year. All of us at Menlo Security hope this new year brings you much joy, good health and prosperity.
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Across the Asia Pacific, cyber security communities are sharing information about malicious actor techniques from other regions, in hopes of avoiding copycat attacks. In one case, data theft from a US government agency exploit was foiled when individual users repeatedly asked IT to have their malware-ridden laptops re-imaged. It turns out, it wasn’t just malware that was the security issue – the malware was a cover up for a sophisticated ring of insider data-stealing activities. Each time the externally-based ring leader thought their data stealing attempts might be discovered, the malware was inflicted on internal users to force a reimage and cover their tracks.
Tags: malware, cybersecurity, isolation, security, malware vulnerabilities, phishing prevention, Australian Information Security Association