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MyKings botnet operators already amassed at least $24 million

Security Affairs

” The malware was first spotted in February 2018 by researchers from Proofpoint when the bot was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. Encryption used is a very simple ROT cipher, where the key is set to -1.”

ROT 101
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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

That is almost 2000 times more data in less than 20 years (Press 2013, Patrizio 2018). AI can also reduce the human effort required to “crunch” vast amounts of content – generated and stored in an organization’s content repositories – in order to identify redundant, obsolete temporary (ROT) [2] content that has no business value.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

Auto-classification can leverage AI using RPA and ML / MT to analyze the digital content and categorize it, including redundant, obsolete, and temporary (ROT) [4] content. Much of the content will never be accessed, yet the cost to manage ROT content will continue to increase. Figure 1: Auto-classification and AI. ARMA International.