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Is QakBot Malware Officially Dead?

Only a few malware families can claim to have persisted for nearly twenty years, and QakBot (also referred to as QBot) stands among them as one of the most enduring. Since its first appearance in 2008, it has been deployed…

Vitalik Buretin’s X account: hacked

The founder of Ethereum is one of the most followed people in the crypto world, but even X’s tight security could not stop the hackers who managed to run away with almost $1 million worth of digital funds. The post…

New Revelations from the Snowden Documents

Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing major, but a few more tidbits. Kind of amazing that that all happened ten years ago. At this point, those…

The Rise of the Malicious App

Security teams are familiar with threats emanating from third-party applications that employees add to improve their productivity. These apps are inherently designed to deliver functionality to users by connecting to a “hub” app, such as Salesforce, Google Workspace, or Microsoft…