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A Timely Warning About Malware Threats21 ,January, 2010 From Dror Todress |
We saw in 2008 and 2009 how worms came back to prominence, thanks to the wide spread of Conficker and its variants. A timely reminder that the threat is still high was given last week, when Google revealed a highly sophisticated series of cyberattacks originating from China that stole some of its intellectual property and affected about 30 other Silicon Valley companies.
This recent attack shows how malicious software has evolved into an advanced weapon that can specifically target companies – even companies as advanced as Google – with the aim of gaining a financial or competitive advantage.
Attackers will try any method available to seed the malware onto a company network, including infecting USB flash drives and distributing them at events, or “losing” them in car parks for unwitting employees to find. That’s why latest-generation secure flash drives, such as our own Cruzer Enterprise range, can also feature onboard anti-malware scanning to nullify this threat.
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