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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #27 [Heads Up] Massive Impersonation Phishing Campaign Imitates Over 100 Brands and Thousands of Domains

KnowBe4

However, as The Insider found out, it is not only China that the US should be worried about: Russia has reanimated the Soviet spy center Lourdes in Cuba, officially closed by Putin in 2001.