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Alert: Smarter, Stealthier, Sneakier Malware

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Increasingly sophisticated and targeted attacks are making it more difficult for organizations to detect and defend against them.

Increasingly sophisticated and targeted attacks are making it more difficult for organizations to detect and defend against them. We collect several Dark Reading reports on these smarter, sneakier attacks.

Table of Contents

    3 Banking Trojans Adapting to Cheat Out-of-Band Security
    4 Best Ways to Detect Advanced Threats Once They Invade
    6 Dastardly Dozen: A Few APT Groups Carry Out Most Attacks
    7 Four Takeaways From the Stuxnet-Duqu Connection
    10 Same Toolkit Spawned Stuxnet, Duqu and Other Campaigns
    12 New Denial-of-Service Attack Cripples Web Servers by Reading Slowly
    14 Related Reports

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The Rocky Road To More Secure Code

Kelly Jackson Higgins is senior editor of Dark Reading. She can be reached at higgins@darkreading.com.

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