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New principles set to take on adversarial machine learning

Best practices are designed to help developers bolster security

The threat actor using the common Go programming language and a custom toolkit claims twenty victims

JuiceLedger started poisoning open-source packages as a way to target a wider audience in August

Details are few, but Montenegro has suffered a cyberattack:

A combination of ransomware and distributed denial-of-service attacks, the onslaught disrupted government services and prompted the country’s electrical utility to switch to manual control.

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But the attack against Montenegro’s infrastructure seemed more sustained and extensive, with targets including water supply systems, transportation services and online government services, among many others.

Government officials in the country of just over 600,000 people said certain government services remained temporarily disabled for security reasons and that the data of citizens and businesses were not endangered.

The Director of the Directorate for Information Security, Dusan Polovic, said 150 computers were infected with malware at a dozen state institutions and that the data of the Ministry of Public Administration was not permanently damaged. Polovic said some retail tax collection was affected.

Russia is being blamed, but I haven’t seen any evidence other than “they’re the obvious perpetrator.”

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Vulnerability impacted social media firm’s Android app

Document will help testers create benchmarks for security products

The flaw would allow the processing of maliciously crafted web content and arbitrary code execution

The malware can also check if specific products are installed, particularly security software