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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 / 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 (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 […]
Enlarge A highly virulent new strain of self-replicating ransomware shut down computers all over the world, in part by appropriating a National Security Agency exploit that was publicly released last month by the mysterious group calling itself Shadow Brokers. The malware, known as Wanna, Wannacry, or Wcry, has infected at least 75,000 computers, according to […]
Image: Gizmodo / Google Over a million Gmail users got hit by a phishing worm on Wednesday afternoon, sending the security world into a cacophony of screams and laughter. Screams, because the attack looked like it came from Google itself. Laughter, because the attack looked like it came from Google itself. While some chin-scratching observers […]
An evil phishing worm masquerading as “Google Docs” took the internet by storm today. An e-mail from a friend or relative claims they shared a document with you. Clicking on the “Open in Docs” button asked you to log in to Google, then it popped up a familiar OAuth request asking for some permissions. If you […]
Enlarge / Don’t click. A widely reported e-mail purporting to be a request to share a Google Docs document is actually a well-disguised phishing attack. It directs the user to a lookalike site and grants the site access to the target’s Google credentials. If the victim clicks on the prompt to give the site permission […]
Two weeks after returning home from a trip to the Caribbean, a 45-yaer-old woman from Pennsylvania noticed an unusual rash developing on her knee. It had become raised and itchy – with a snake-like appearance – prompting her to visit a doctor. To her surprise, it turned out to be a parasitic worm hiding beneath […]
