Backdoored images downloaded 5 million times finally removed from Docker Hub

Enlarge (credit: Oren neu dag / Wikimedia) A single person or group may have made as much as $ 90,000 over 10 months by spreading 17 malicious images that were downloaded more than 5 million times from Docker Hub, researchers said Wednesday. The repository finally removed the submissions in May, more than eight months after […]

Worker who snuck NSA malware home had his PC backdoored, Kaspersky says

Enlarge (credit: Kaspersky Lab) An NSA worker who reportedly snuck classified materials out of the agency stored them on a home computer that was later infected by a malicious backdoor that allowed third-parties to remotely access the machine, officials with Moscow-based antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab said. The NSA worker—described in some published reports as a […]