Collaborate Disseminate
Can you trust that .feedback site really belongs to who you think it belongs?
David Bisson reports.
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The Blank Slate attack campaign is pushing out one of two ransomware to unsuspecting Windows users via Microsoft-themed malspam. An attack begins when a user receives a malicious spam (“malspam”) email message. As in previous instances of Blank Slate, the email’s subject line doesn’t give away the attack. It incorporates seemingly random numbers and letters, […]… Read More
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A committee in the United States Senate intends to prohibit the Department of Defense from using Kaspersky Lab’s products for fear of “Russian government influence”.
David Bisson reports.
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An investigation conducted by City of London Police and Microsoft culminated in the arrests of four UK persons accused of perpetrating tech support scams. On 27 June 2017, officers from North East Regional Special Operations Unit (NERSOU) placed a 37-year-old man and 35-year-old woman living in South Shields under arrest. Authorities later released those two individuals […]… Read More
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On June 27, 2017, a digital attack campaign struck banks, airports and power companies in Ukraine, Russia and parts of Europe. Security experts who analyzed the attack determined its behavior was consistent with a form of ransomware called Petya. They also observed the campaign was using a familiar exploit to spread to vulnerable machines. Let’s […]… Read More
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A new variant of Petya ransomware has reportedly struck banks, airports, and power utilities in an apparent outbreak affecting Ukraine, Russia, and parts of Europe. Ukraine’s national bank, state power company, and airport appear to have been the attack campaign’s first victims. Rozenko Pavlo, the deputy Prime Minister, told The Independent he and other members […]… Read More
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Online extortionists have threatened to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against seven South Korean banks unless each victim pays up US $315,000 in ransom.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading South Korean banks told to pay $315,000 or suffer DDoS wrath
A new aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy appears to be running the outdated 2001 Windows XP operating system on at least some of its machines. During a tour of the £3.5 billion HMS Queen Elizabeth, someone reportedly spotted a screen inside the aircraft carrier’s control room running Windows XP. Microsoft hasn’t supported this […]… Read More
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Healthcare insurer Anthem looks set to pay a record settlement after hackers stole the personal information of nearly 80 million people.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Anthem to stump up record $115 million in data breach lawsuit settlement
Koler ransomware is masquerading as fake adult-themed apps to infect unsuspecting Android users based in the United States. An infection begins when a user visits a suspicious adult-themed website. The attack campaign says the user must download an app for a popular adult site to view their desired content. But the app is a fake. […]… Read More
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