{"id":58124,"date":"2017-10-13T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T21:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=58124"},"modified":"2017-10-13T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T21:11:34","slug":"weekly-recap-top-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/weekly-recap-top-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Recap &#8211; Top IT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>This Week&#8217;s IT News<\/h3>\n<p>This week several news stories broke from new malware variants to cyber warfare.\u00a0 Here are the five top news stories you may have missed out on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/formbook-malware-targets-us-defense-contractors-aerospace-and-manufacturing-sectors\/128334\/\">FormBook Malware Has Major Targets<\/a> &#8211; A new malware variant, FormBook, has been released into the wild.\u00a0 It is currently targeting U.S. defense contractors, aerospace organizations and manufacturing firms.\u00a0 FormBook is also expanding some attacks outside of the U.S. with its secondary focus being South Korea. 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