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Enlarge (credit: Penn State) Marcus Hutchins, the celebrated security professional who was arrested Wednesday on federal charges he helped create and distribute malware that steals banking credentials, will be released from detention pending $ 30,000 bail, according to Las Vegas reporter Christy Wilcox and other news outlets. Wilcox reported on Twitter that Hutchins will stay […]
Enlarge (credit: S-8500) The WCry ransomware worm has struck again, this time prompting Honda Company to halt production in one of its Japan-based factories after finding infections in a broad swath of its computer networks, according to media reports. The automaker shut down its Sayama plant northwest of Tokyo on Monday after finding that WCry […]
Enlarge (credit: Health Service Journal) Researchers have found more digital fingerprints tying this month’s WCry ransomware worm to the same prolific hacking group that attacked Sony Pictures in 2014 and the Bangladesh Central Bank last year. Last week, a researcher at Google identified identical code found in a WCry sample from February and an early […]
Enlarge (credit: Kaspersky Lab) Eight days ago, the WCry ransomware worm attacked more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries. The outbreak prompted infected hospitals to turn away patients and shut down computers in banks and telecoms. Now that researchers have had time to analyze the self-replicating attack, they’re learning details that shed new and sometimes […]
Enlarge (credit: Ed Westcott / American Museum of Science and Energy) New hope glimmered on Friday for people hit by last week’s virulent ransomware worm after researchers showed that a broader range of PCs infected by WCry can be unlocked without owners making the $ 300 to $ 600 payment demand. A new publicly available […]
Enlarge (credit: Adrien Guinet) Owners of some Windows XP computers infected by the WCry ransomware may be able to decrypt their data without making the $ 300 to $ 600 payment demand, a researcher said Thursday. Adrien Guinet, a researcher with France-based Quarkslab, has released software that he said allowed him to recover the secret […]
(credit: fdecomite) WCry, the National Security Agency exploit-powered ransomware worm that began spreading worldwide on Friday, had reportedly affected hundreds of thousands of computers before the weekend, but the malware had only brought in about $ 20,000 in ransom payments. However, as the world returned to the office on Monday, those payments have been rapidly […]
Enlarge / Identical code found in WCry and 2015 malicious backdoor could be a smoking gun that provides crucial clues about the origin of Friday’s ransomware worm. (credit: Jo Christian Oterhals) A researcher has found digital fingerprints that tie the WCry ransomware worm that menaced the world on Friday to a prolific hacking operation that […]
Enlarge / A cryptocurrency mining farm. (credit: Marco Krohn) On Friday, Ransomware called WannaCry used leaked hacking tools stolen from the National Security Agency to attack an estimated 200,000 computers in 150 countries. On Monday, researchers said the same weapons-grade attack kit was used in a much earlier and possibly larger-scale hack that made infected […]
Enlarge (credit: Stephen Brashear / Getty Images News) Two days after a National Security Agency-derived ransomware worm infected 200,000 computers in 150 countries, Microsoft on Sunday criticized the stockpiling of exploits by government spies, warning it results in damage to civilians. The unusually blunt message from Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith came […]
