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Diagram shows how ransomware operators incorporate the SystemBC malware into an attack. (Source: Sophos) Several recent ransomware attacks, including those involving Ryuk and Egregor, have used a commodity malware variant called SystemBC as a backdoor, security firm Sophos reports. First uncovered by security firm Proofpoint in August 2019, SystemBC works as a network proxy for concealed communications and as a remote access Trojan, or RAT, that allows threat actors to deploy additional commands and scripts to infected Windows devices and to gather data. While researchers have tracked SystemB...

Budget number, but we're going to have these extraneous factors come in. that have nothing to do with the budget, and that causes a shutdown. i don't think the american people will accept that. >> it is looming, as we look at live pictures of the white house and the capitol. the republican-controlled house heads called for $61 billion in spending cuts. they're trying to work out a compromise around half that figure. if there is a government shutdown, you can bet that we'll hear a lot from essential and nonessential government employees. at certain agencies, it's hard to say, at first glance wh...

Water supplies, monitoring natural disasters. back then, he says, cybersecurity was so new, it was almost a nonissue during the shutdown. the government shutdown that you'd experienced back in 1995, for one to happen today, it would be a completely different ball game? >> there is no comparison. the number of people that would be determined essential this time, just for the security piece alone will be several orders of magnitude larger. >> reporter: federal agencies are required to have backup plans listing essential employees, people who stay behind and safeguard their agency when everyone e...