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COMPANY NEWS: APT45, a North Korean cyber operator since 2009, has evolved from espionage to financially motivated operations, distinguishing itself with unique malware and frequent critical infrastructure targeting. Google Cloud’s Mandiant division has been tracking the operator for some years, and it has now been elevated to the status of “Advanced Persistent Threat Group” (APT).

The US will ban the sale of anti-virus products made by Russian vendor Kaspersky to American customers from July onwards, a report says.

A Dutchman was responsible for infecting equipment at Iran's Natanz nuclear plant in 2008 with the Stuxnet virus, leading to years of delay in the country's nuclear program, a Dutch publication, Volkskrant, claims.

New major versions of Apple's operating systems are already in beta test, but the company has just released iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, watchOS 9.6 and tvOS 16.6, as well as iOS 15.7.8 and iPadOS 15.7.8.

Apple has released macOS Ventura 13.5, Monterey 12.6.8 and Big Sur 11.7.9.

Apple has issued fixes for two flaws in its iOS and iPadOS operating systems that were used to attack employees of Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky.

Russian security firm Kaspersky has lost its most senior researcher, with Costin Raiu, long-time head of its Global Research & Analysis Team, announcing that he would be leaving the company.

Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky has revealed it has been hit by an attack that injects spyware into iPhones used by its employees, an attack that has been going on since 2019 and has been named Operation Triangulation.

The ‘covered list’ contains equipment and services deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States and should be removed from any government infrastructure.

Russian security firm Kaspersky is facing a fresh probe into its anti-virus software, which has been stepped up since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a report claims.

Russian security products vendor Kaspersky has been added to the US Covered List which includes foreign companies that are considered to pose "an unacceptable risk to US national security".

Security researchers have been urged to send reports of any bugs they find directly to the companies affected after the bug bounty firm HackerOne cut off payments to Ukrainian researchers for a while after their country was invaded by Russia.

A warning by the German Federal Office of Information Security against the use of Kaspersky products had no technical advice or objective evidence to back it up, the chief executive of the Russian security firm says.

The German Federal Office for Information Security [German acronym BSI] has recommended that users replace anti-virus software made by Russian vendor Kaspersky with other products, a warning that the company has dismissed as being driven by political considerations.

Russian security vendor Kaspersky has denied rumours that the source code of its products have been leaked, with the denial coming in the wake of the leak of source code from Samsung's Galaxy devices.

In what is an unusual turn of events, a Chinese security firm has revealed details about malware that it says emanated from the portals of the US National Security Agency.

Security vendor Kaspersky has promoted Sandra Lee to the role of APAC managing director.

Security vendor Kaspersky has added Leader to its ANZ distributor lineup to expand its reach in the region.

The discovery of a way to spoof an IP address over TCP and a method to send requests to closed ports in a communications service network could both be potential vectors for a spate of DDoS attacks in future, the cyber security firm Kaspersky says.

Microsoft claims to have detected what it characterises as nation-state activity by an adversary it calls Nobelium — the SolarWinds attackers who are also known as APT29 and Cozy Bear — trying to gain access to customers of multiple cloud providers, including itself.