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Huntress analysts discovered a previously unseen ransomware variant, Obscura, spreading from a victim company's domain controller. Learn how Obscura works—and what it means for defenders—in this ...

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In 2002, Raskin, along with his son Aza and the rest of the development team, built a software implementation of his ...

The Pakistani APT36 cyberspies are using Linux .desktop files to load malware in new attacks against government and defense entities in India. Although the attacks described in the two reports use ...

Some files in macOS may not be necessary and can be safely removed from your Mac. Here's how to delete them. macOS is a UNIX-based system at its core, and as such, its filesystem arrangement is more ...

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Have you ever used Secure Shell to access a remote machine, only to find yourself needing to download a file from a remote location? What do you do? Since you only have terminal window access to that ...