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Kaspersky's security researchers have identified a multi-platform malware framework that they believe North Korea-linked hackers have been leveraging in attacks over the past couple of years. Called MATA, the platform appears to have been in use since spring 2018 to target computers running Windows, Linux, and macOS. The framework, which consists of components such as a loader, an orchestrator, and plugins, is believed to be linked to the prolific North Korean hacking group Lazarus.

Lazarus Group, the notorious hacking group with ties to the North Korean regime, has unleashed a new multi-platform malware framework with an aim to infiltrate corporate entities around the world, steal customer databases, and distribute ransomware. Capable of targeting Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems, the MATA malware framework - so-called because of the authors' reference to the infrastructure as "MataNet" - comes with a wide range of features designed to carry out a variety of malicious activities on infected machines.

Lazarus Group, the notorious hacking group with ties to the North Korean regime, has unleashed a new multi-platform malware framework with an aim to infiltrate corporate entities around the world, steal customer databases, and distribute ransomware. Capable of targeting Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems, the MATA malware framework - so-called because of the authors' reference to the infrastructure as "MataNet" - comes with a wide range of features designed to carry out a variety of malicious activities on infected machines.

The North Korea-linked APT known as Lazarus Group has debuted an advanced, multipurpose malware framework, called MATA, to target Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems. As far as victimology, known organizations hit by the MATA framework have been located in Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Turkey and Poland - indicating that the attacks cast a wide net.

HITRUST CSF version 9.4 now incorporates and harmonizes the largest number of authoritative sources of any security and privacy framework, most recently adding the CMMC framework and two community-specific standards, as well as updating existing sources for continued relevancy. As security and privacy requirements change in response to new and updated global laws and regulations, or breaches and other cyber events, HITRUST is committed to maintaining and expanding the relevancy and applicability of the HITRUST CSF to meet the continually evolving regulatory and risk-management landscape and associated control requirements.

The Kubeflow open-source project is a popular framework for running machine-learning tasks in Kubernetes. Because Kubeflow is a containerized service, these various tasks run as containers in the Kubernetes cluster, and each can present a path for an attacker into the core Kubernetes architecture.

BigID introduced the first Application Development Framework for any data discovery platform on the market. The BigID App Development Framework empowers customers and partners to get more value from their data by building custom application functionality on top of BigID's market-leading data discovery platform.

AcceleratXR announced the launch of its new open source project - Composer. Js is a framework and toolset for rapidly building back-end API services using NodeJS. The project is a fork of the internal tools and technology the company has been steadily building its innovative MMO gaming platform with over the last two years.

Dubbed Ramsay, the framework appears to be in the development stage, with its operators still working on refining delivery vectors. Ramsay appears to have been under development since late 2019, and ESET's security researchers believe that there are two maintained versions at the moment, each tailored based on the configuration of different targets.

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced the launch of a new alerting framework delivered across the Elastic Stack to provide first-class experiences with tailored interfaces that allow users to create powerful alerts in the normal flow of their daily tasks. The new alerting framework is delivered via Kibana across the Elastic Stack and available within the SIEM, Uptime, APM, and Metrics applications.