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At first it may not sound like a big deal to organizations in the U.S. or Western Europe, but in fact the new cyber-reconnaissance malware discovered by CyberX may be a much bigger threat than it first appears.

This new malware, which researchers at CyberX call Operation BugDrop is designed to sit quietly on computers throughout an organization and record everything heard by the microphone built into or attached to a computer.

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