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A new malware dubbed Keona Clipper aims to steal cryptocurrencies from infected computers and uses Telegram to increase its stealth. Learn more about what the Clipper malware threat is and how to protect from it. Image: ~ Bitter ~/Adobe Stock What is clipper malware? A clipper malware is a piece of software that once running on a computer will constantly check the content of the user’s clipboard and look for cryptocurrency wallets. If the user…

Approximately 61% of APAC organizations have failed to build robust and successful digital business business models, primarily due to unsound practices of enterprise architecture (EA) teams, according to a report from Forrester. An enterprise architecture team is responsible for designing and implementing IT solutions with the aim of improving efficiency in business operations. While the rate of failure looks marginally better when compared to global, North American and European regions—whose failure rates stand at 63%,…

If you’re one of the countless Apple iPhone owners out there, there’s a good chance that one of the reasons you love your smartphone is because you’ve heard that Apple devices tend to have fewer vulnerabilities to viruses.   Because of their shared operating system, iOS devices enjoy Apple’s security measures, which keeps them protected from malware and viruses differently from most Android devices.   This is great, right? Certainly! But it’s also important to remember that…

Like many breakthroughs, the central idea behind blockchain is simple but obscured by the surrounding embellishments and hoopla.  At its heart, the idea is a purely technical one, beguiling in its counterintuitiveness: by broadcasting information, it becomes more secure. Ground zero for the blockchain idea is the Satoshi whitepaper, which presents a novel approach to avoiding the double spend problem in digital currencies.  By cryptographically signing blocks of transactions and publishing them broadly, a record…

When it comes to IT strategy, Kimberly-Clark Global CIO Manoj Kumbhat makes one thing very clear: This multinational takes a business-first approach to digital transformation. The B2C and B2B retailer of brand-name personal care and professional healthcare products, such as Kleenex tissues, Scott paper towels, and Huggies diapers, has made a big hybrid-cloud push of late, complete with a Snowflake data lake, a “consumer 360” platform, and a series of cloud-native and SaaS applications geared…

Prolific ransomware group Conti managed to breach 40 victim organizations in a rapid-fire campaign over the course of just a few weeks, according to new research from Group-IB. The Singapore-based threat intelligence firm claimed in a new report that the “ARMattack” operation ran from November 17 to December 20 2021. However, it was startlingly effective, with victims mainly concentrated in the US (37%), but also Europe, India and the UAE. The group’s fastest attack was carried out…

Global businesses could be exposing themselves to billions in annual losses because they aren’t properly securing their APIs, according to new research from Imperva. The security firm teamed up with the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Analytics Center to analyze nearly 117,000 unique cybersecurity incidents for their report, Quantifying the Cost of API Insecurity. It revealed that vulnerable and unsecured APIs cause an estimated 7.5% of cyber events and losses globally, rising to 18-23% in the IT and information…

European police are trawling online platforms for evidence of human trafficking after warning that crime groups are grooming Ukrainian refugees via websites and social media. Coordinated by Dutch police, the EMPACT joint action day saw law enforcers from 14 EU member states search 125 online platforms for evidence of criminality. Europol claimed 42 of these are suspected of being used by human traffickers looking to recruit vulnerable women from the war-torn country. A wide variety…

By Martin Yankov Cloud technologies have become a ubiquitous part of organizations’ IT strategies. Faster performance and enhanced scalability options—both horizontally and vertically—enable companies to better reach their customers and deliver value in shorter cycles. With rapidly changing business requirements, clouds enable better flexibility for organizations and save substantial effort and money. Service providers, such as VMware, are therefore able to respond quickly to changing needs, deliver value, innovate faster, and iterate more rapidly, leading…