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Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Disrupt Cybercriminals’ Illegal Use of Cobalt Strike Tool

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Microsoft said it teamed up with Fortra and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) to tackle the abuse of Cobalt Strike by cybercriminals to distribute malware, including ransomware.
To that end, the tech giant’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) revealed that it secured a court order in the U.S. to “remove illegal, legacy copies of Cobalt Strike so they can no longer be used by
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Are Source Code Leaks the New Threat Software vendors Should Care About?

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Less than a month ago, Twitter indirectly acknowledged that some of its source code had been leaked on the code-sharing platform GitHub by sending a copyright infringement notice to take down the incriminated repository. The latter is now inaccessible, but according to the media, it was accessible to the public for several months. A user going by the name FreeSpeechEnthousiast committed
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Fight AI With AI

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By developing new tools to defend against adversarial AI, companies can help ensure that AI is developed and used in a responsible and safe manner.
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Seized Genesis malware market’s infostealers infected 1.5 million computers

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Infamous hacker marketplace Genesis, which was taken down this week by an international law enforcement operation involving 17 countries, was selling access to millions of victim computers gained via the DanaBot infostealer and likely other malware.

Trellix, the cybersecurity firm that assisted in the takedown of the Genesis site, said that malware used by Genesis provided access to browser fingerprints, cookies, autofill form data, and other credentials.

“The disruption of Genesis Market is yet another successful takedown that proves that public-private partnerships are vital in fighting cybercrime,” said John Fokker, head of threat intelligence at the Trellix Advanced Research Center in Amsterdam. “We had been monitoring the marketplace for many years now and are proud to have been able to play a part in the takedown of this notorious market.”

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