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By Timothy Liu, CTO and Co-Founder, Hillstone Networks In recent years, the pandemic and other forces have led to drastic changes in the way we work. The distributed workforce has become far more common, resulting in an increased dependence on software and applications to allow remote workers to conduct their tasks. The simultaneous shift by businesses to digital transformation has contributed to this evolution, although the mass shutdowns of the pandemic were most likely the…

Over the past few years, many enterprises saw much of their knowledge workforce move away from the office to work out of their homes. This move beyond the traditional firewall setup created security issues and device management issues for many IT departments. Adding to these issues was an increasing need to keep employees happy once people began returning to the office. For example, a recent Gallup poll found that four in 10 white-collar workers prefer…

A new threat cluster, tracked by SentinelLabs as WIP19, has been targeting telecommunications and IT service providers across the Middle East and Asia. According to the security experts, the group is characterized by the use of a legitimate, stolen digital certificate issued by DEEPSoft, a Korean company specializing in messaging solutions.  “Throughout this activity, the threat actor abused the certificate to sign several malicious components,” SentinelLabs explained. “Almost all operations performed by the threat actor…

An unofficial version of the popular WhatsApp messaging app called YoWhatsApp has been spotted infecting devices with the known Android Trojan Triada. Distributed via advertisements on popular Android applications like Snaptube and VidMate, YoWhatsApp v2.22.11.75 steals WhatsApp keys, enabling the threat actors to control users’ accounts. According to an advisory published by Kaspersky on Wednesday, the stolen keys are typically used in open-source utilities that allow the use of a WhatsApp account without the app. …

Over the last five years, Node.js has maintained its position as a top platform among professional developers. It’s an open source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment designed to maximize throughput. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient — perfect for data intensive, real-time, and distributed applications.  With over 90,500 stars and 24,400 forks, Node’s developer community is highly active. With more devs creating Node.js apps than ever before, finding efficient…

Welcome to the first annual Docker State of Application Development survey! Please help us deepen our knowledge of the developer community with 20 minutes of your time. We want to know where developers are focused in 2023 so we can make sure our products continue to serve you effectively. Your participation helps us to build the best experiences for you! Participation will also enter you into a raffle for a chance to win one of…

Image: Ar_TH /Adobe Stock A standalone Command and Control (C2) server called “Alchimist” was recently discovered by Cisco Talos. The framework has been designed to run attacks via standalone GoLang-based executables that can be distributed easily. The framework found by Talos contains both the whole web user interface and the payloads. GoLang-written framework Go programming language, also known as GoLang, becomes increasingly popular for developers looking to compile their code on multiple different systems and…

The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Budworm has been spotted targeting a US-based entity for the first time in more than six years, alongside other international targets. The news comes from Symantec security researchers, who shared an advisory about the attacks with Infosecurity before publication. According to the new data, Budworm executed attacks over the past six months against several strategically significant targets, including a Middle Eastern country’s government, a multinational electronics manufacturer, a…