Privacy News Online’s weekly video recap includes the top privacy stories, hosted by tech news commentator Brian Tong.
Each episode includes a cybersecurity news segment hosted by Intego’s Chief Security Analyst, Josh Long. This week’s video features the following security story.
According to the report, the FBI “has high confidence that Chinese government actors are using malware variants in conjunction with proxy servers to maintain a presence on victim networks and to further network exploitation.”
The report concludes with a number of recommendations for protecting computers from Taidoor and other threats, first and foremost: use antivirus software, and keep it up to date.
The Taidoor variants described in the report are designed to infect Windows operating systems. If a Mac variant comes to light, we’ll be sure to let you know.
For the rest of this week’s privacy news—including how T-Mobile shadow-banned customers for sending texts containing the word “belly”—watch this eight-minute video.
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