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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently announced that activity in LokiBot, a form of aggressive malware, has increased dramatically over the last two months.
The activity increase was discovered by an automated intrusion detection system referred to as EINSTEIN, which the Department of Homeland Security uses for collecting and analyzing security information across numerous government agencies. Following the detection, CISA issued a security advisory warning to Federal agencies and private sector entities alike about the malware.
Malware is essentially a piece of software or firmware that is intentionally placed into a system (or host) for malicious purposes (hence the term ‘malware’). It has long been a major problem, but it’s only become worse since the coronavirus pandemic began as hackers and cybercriminals have sought to take advantage of…
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October 28, 2020 at 09:11PM
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