Posts for category: US News

Petya Group Bitcoins on the Move, New Message Posted

Petya Group Bitcoins on the Move, New Message Posted The hacking group behind Petya/NotPetya/ExPetr withdrew all bitcoins from the bitcoin wallet associated with the ransomware on Tuesday, July ...

The Persirai Botnet

Persirai, the latest botnet family to take advantage of unsecured IOT devices, has overtaken Mirai as the most common webcam botnet, according to new research from the security software company Trend ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary, June 9, 2017

US Voter Registration Process was Target of Russian Cyberespionage Operation, Says Leaked NSA Report A leaked top secret National Security Agency (NSA) report described cyberattack attempts on US ...

Dimnie Data-Stealing Malware Targets Developers on GitHub

Phishing emails targeting developers who own repositories on Github offered praise and jobs, but they also included an attached trojan. A malicious .doc file attached to the email contained an ...

Malware Found Pre-Installed on Android Phones Indicates Supply Chain Security Breakdown

Check Point Software Technologies recently detected “severe infection” in multiple models of Android devices and determined that the malware was pre-installed, indicating an issue with supply ...

Stolen CIA Cyberspying Tools Released Publicly, Claims WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks has published what it claims is a vast catalog of cyber espionage and hacking tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to access computers, smartphones, messaging apps, smart ...

Data from New York Airport’s Servers Exposed Online for a Year

Headline: Data from New York Airport’s Servers Exposed Online for a Year Stewart International Airport accidentally leaked sensitive data from its servers for more than a year because an ...

SHAttered: SHA-1 Proved Insecure

Headline: SHAttered: SHA-1 Proved Insecure SHA-1, a cryptologic hash function still widely in use, is proven to be insecure after security researchers documented a successful collision attack this ...

CloudBleed: Cloudflare Parser Bug Causes Memory Leak

Headline: CloudBleed: Cloudflare Parser Bug Causes Memory Leak A vulnerability affecting Cloudflare, a popular Content Delivery Network (CDN), could cause a buffer overrun which could result in ...

D.C. CCTV system targeted by ransomware

HEADLINE: D.C. CCTV system targeted by ransomware before inauguration day, U.K. arrests two in connection to attack Washington D.C. city officials say that 123 out of 187 video recorders in the ...