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ESET Identifies 11 Latin American Malware Families

There are multiple distinct banking Trojan families in Latin America, rather than one large group as has been previously believed, ESET researchers said at the Virus Bulletin 2020 conference.

Malware, Banking Trojans

GitHub Releases Integrated Code Scanning Feature

GitHub has released a new code-scanning feature for both public and private repositories that finds security flaws before they make it into a codebase.

Software Security

Decipher Podcast: Larry Cashdollar

Larry Cashdollar, a senior security researcher at Akamai, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about 20 years of vulnerability research and the many different ways that things can go sideways.

Podcast

Universal Health Services Network Knocked Offline

A security incident at Universal Health Services has taken the network of the large health system offline.

Ransomware

Framework Outlines How Companies Should Talk About Breaches

Organizations are increasingly developing incident response playbooks to plan out in advance what steps to take in case of a security breach—such as an employees accessing files without authorization, a lost computer, or a server compromised by outside attackers. A team of academics from the UK's University of Kent and University of Warwick outlined a comprehensive playbook on how organizations should communicate after a security incident.

Data Breaches, Incident Response