Posts for category: North America

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 ...

Global Weekly Executive Summary June 2, 2017

WannaCry Attribution Security researchers around the world have identified clues linking the global WannaCry cyberattacks to Lazarus Group, a prolific hacking group with suspected ties to North ...

Hajime vs. Mirai, A Botnet Battle?

The Hajime worm spreading through unsecured IoT devices seems to be purposely making them more secure. Hajime vs Mirai Last October, the Mirai botnet launched the largest ever distributed ...

Shadow Brokers Dump More Stolen NSA Tools

On Friday, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers released another batch of files that they say were taken from the NSA. After analyzing the files, security researchers found two key pieces of ...

McDonald’s Canada Data Breach Affects 95,000

McDonald’s Canada’s career site has exposed the personal data of 95,000 applicants seeking jobs at the restaurant since 2014. McDonald’s Canada announced in a media statement last Friday ...

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 ...