Cyber criminals hiding sensitive data under owners' noses

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Research uncovers 'drop-zones' that crooks use before they export data beyond the firewall

Cyber thieves are secreting huge troves of sensitive corporate data on the owners' networks without them realising, researchers from security firm Kaspersky Labs have warned. Those illicit files...

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