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Singapore-based Russian security firm Group-IB has placed itself squarely in the crosshairs of the US Government by revealing exhaustive details about an alleged criminal and thus forcing American law enforcement to drop its objection to making details of a sealed indictment against the man public.

The defence industry-funded lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, has many shortcomings. But it has numerous strong points too, chief among which is its unceasing ability to spread misinformation, propaganda and heighten the fear index in society.

Israel-based security firm Check Point claims a Chinese state-backed group known as Naikon has been targeting countries in Asia and the Pacific, including Australia, for the last five years and stepping up its activities in 2019 and the first quarter of this year to gather intelligence and spy on these countries.

A group that was distributing Windows ransomware known as Shade or Troldesh has pulled up stumps and released about 750,000 encryption keys, offering an apology for its actions during its existence.

Australian Internet users were the fifth most attacked by spam and phishing lures in 2019, the security firm Kaspersky says, based on statistics it collected during the past year. The firm found that 25.24% of Australians were attacked.

Veteran security researcher Brian Bartholomew has cast doubt on claims made about attacks by a nation-state backed group on a Chinese VPN provider whose software was used by the Beijing government and its overseas agencies. The allegations were made by Chinese security firm 360 Core Security (Qihoo Security) in a blog post on 6 April.

Security firm Kaspersky has offered free six-month licences of some of its products to medical institutions so that they can guard against cyber threats which have multiplied during the ongoing coronavirus crisis, with malicious elements seeking to cash in.

A company that creates and sells software known as MonitorMinor has denied that the product falls into the category of stalkerware — which is used to track people — and only meant for use by parents who want to keep their children safe.

Researchers from security firm Kaspersky have found more than 30 fraudulent websites claiming to offer free downloads of the last Star Wars film, which opened on 19 December, but actually harvesting users' credit card data while they register for the expected free download of the film.

RMIT University student Tracy Tam won the top prize in the inaugural cyber security competition which the university held in collaboration with Russian security firm Kaspersky.

A well-known advanced persistent threat known as Platinum has been found to be using a new Windows backdoor, named Platinum by researchers at security outfit Kaspersky, and taking aim at targets mainly in South and South-East Asia. No current campaigns by this backdoor were detected.

An Indian nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu was hit by Windows malware in September, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India has acknowledged.

Russian security outfit Kaspersky says it will continue to provide details of advanced persistent threats (APTs or nation-state actors) no matter the country of their origin, but these details will only be available to customers who subscribe to their services.

Russian security outfit Kaspersky, formerly known as Kaspersky Lab, has opened its threat intelligence portal to a bigger audience from Thursday onwards. The service was previously available to business customers and as a premium service only.

Google, unsurprisingly, is the biggest slurper of data around the world, a study by security outfit Kaspersky has found, with the search behemoth ahead of all other companies that track users by a massive margin. In the Australia and New Zealand region, DoubleClick on its own had 15.51% of the market, with Google Analytics taking 5.22%. Google AdSense 2.47%, Google AdWords 2.39% and YouTube Analytics 1.17%.

The number of people who have commercial sypware, also known as stalkerware, on their mobile phones has increased markedly in the first eight months of the year, rising to 518.223 cases, an increase of 373% over the corresponding period in 2018.

An Android banking trojan, that targets users of the Australian Government's my.gov.au site and also users of the National Australia Bank website, has been spotted by security firm Kaspersky, which claims the malware is adopting what it describes as "unusual" tactics.

Global security giant Kasperksy has announced the opening of its first Transparency Centre in the Asia Pacific region, to be hosted by CyberSecurity Malaysia – Malaysia's national cyber security specialist agency.

With the sentencing of former NSA contractor Harold Martin to nine years in prison for taking huge amounts of company data home, the identity of the Shadow Brokers, the group which leaked numerous NSA exploits on the Web three years ago, still remains unknown.

New versions of the surveillance tool FinSpy have been found, the Russian security outfit Kaspersky says, adding that attackers can use the software to spy on the activities of mobile devices and exfiltrate GPS location data, messages, photographs and call details.