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Avast is a consumer cybersecurity company known for its antivirus software and malware-detection technologies like the EvoGen heuristic engine.
Cohere signed a letter of intent on Oct. 15 to buy Prague-based Aisle, an AI security startup with about 50 staff. Cohere's stated reason is a sovereign platform for customers.
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A Northern California freelance marketplace's own messaging system carried Excel macro lures to 80,000 of its users across 18 months. Microsoft closed that delivery step in 2022. The same platform lure now shows up in North Korean operations.
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Malwarebytes says the fake Avast renewal page it found aimed at Belgian users was noticeably more polished than most scam sites, with clean French copy, an Active status badge and a form that asks only for a name, an email address and a phone number.
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South Korea's cyber agency published a free tool that recovers Rhysida-encrypted Windows files. Emsisoft says three other parties had the same flaw first and kept quiet about it.
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One engineer's log of shipping a Python app to macOS and Windows beta users. Three checkpoints in the signing pipeline hand back a pass on builds that users cannot open.
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