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Alcino Pereira
Alcino Pereira is AFP's chief information security officer, based in Paris.
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The devil hides in your email attachments

Tuesday 19 April 2016

Paris, April 19, 2016 -- I am always amazed by what I discover working in the IT world, especially within its darker regions.

In just a few years, we've moved from crude cyberattacks that did some damage, to intense malware campaigns whose severity, scope, and sophistication I still have trouble wrapping my head around. One instance I'll never forget happened when I came to work on the morning of March 1.

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