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Tordow 2.0 Android banking trojan gains root access, mimics …
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Startup PatternEx with roots in MIT’s artificial intelligence lab is launching a security platform it says employs artificial intelligence by learning from input it gets from human security analysts about data exfiltration and bank fraud incidents that it flags.
It monitors firewall logs and traffic in and out of the network and alerts customer analysts of suspicious traffic that might represent malware connecting to command and control servers or transferring data out of the network, says PatternEx CEO Uday Veeramachaneni, a co-founder of the company.
The AI engine is fed information about how the analyst responds to each notification and the algorithm running it incorporates that input into refining its predictive model of how the analyst will react. That way, over time, it sends fewer false positives, Veeramachaneni says.
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Android Trojan Mimics PC Drive-by Malware Attack
PCWorld (See also "5 Free Android Security Apps: Keep Your Smartphone Safe.") This isn't quite a PC drive-by attack because the user still needs to install the app, at which point it relies on the user having ticked the "Unknown Sources" box (in most cases … |
It’s called “phishing”: a classic online scam in which phony emails – supposedly from legitimate companies, banks or even agencies like the IRS – are sent to trick you into handing over personal information. For Lincoln Hills resident Al Kottman, it came …
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