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It’s been one week since the newest (and therefore scariest) cyberattack, which caused pandemonium across Ukraine and Russia before spreading to other countries. But that came only a few weeks after the WannaCry ransomware targeted Windows XP machines worldwide, which infamously held data from the UK’s National Health Service hostage. You might think we’ve entered […]
Published time: 6 Jun, 2017 16:20 Japanese police arrested a 14-year-old boy for creating and distributing malware designed to infect and encrypt computers to financially exploit victims. The teen, from Takatsuki in Japan’s Osaka Prefecture, is the first person in the country to be arrested for the crime, according to police. Ransomware is a malware […]
The Shadow Brokers, a group that is thought to have stolen classified documents from the NSA that have been used to write the WannaCry malware, have offered to publish more of their document trove in exchange for a monthly subscription fee. In a message posted in deliberately garbled English, the collective said that they would […]
ANALYSIS: It’s been a week since the WannaCry ransomware attack began infecting computers running Windows software. And things are strangely silent again. It’s almost as if the wake-up call that WannaCry set off was heard by global IT managers – and then those IT managers hit the snooze button. In a way, that’s not a […]
There’s a glimmer of hope for a specific subset of victims in the WannaCry hack. Security researchers have released a fix that gets rid of the ransomware and restores a device’s files, though it only works on Windows XP to Windows 7, and only on computers that have not been rebooted since the infection. The […]
(Reuters) — A group that took credit for leaking NSA cyber spying tools – including ones used in the WannaCry global ransomware attack – has said it plans to sell code that can be used to hack into the world’s most used computers, software and phones. Using trademark garbled English, the Shadow Brokers group said […]
For all the damage the “WannaCry” ransomware has done, there’s still one looming, unanswered question: who’s behind it? At last, there might be a clue. Google researcher Neel Mehta has noticed that an early version of WannaCry’s code shares similarities with a February 2015 sample from the Lazarus Group, a North Korea-linked outfit blamed for […]
Published time: 14 May, 2017 14:34 British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon insists he has “complete confidence” in the safety of Britain’s nuclear submarines, but refused to deny that they run on the Windows XP operating system that has been exploited in a major global cyberattack. Since Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) was walloped by the […]
The virus that downed critical digital infrastructure in the UK’s National Health Service and locked thousands of people out of their computers may be about to get worse, warns the head of Europol. Rob Wainwright, executive director of the European Union’s crime agency, said the spread of the ‘WannaCry’ virus was “unprecedented,” resulting in more […]
Microsoft has taken the “highly unusual” step of securing early operating systems in the wake of a massive ransomware attack that wreaked havoc on global computer networks, including the UK’s National Health Service. Microsoft XP received the new security patch three years after the computer giant discontinued support for the OS. READ MORE: Ransomware virus […]
