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The researcher who helped stop the WannaCry ransomware pleaded guilty to two counts of hacking for writing banking malware in 2014. Continue reading ‘WannaCry Hero’ Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware
Martin admitted that for more than 20 years, he stole and a vast quantity of highly classified information, stashing it in his home and car. Continue reading Top-secret defense document hoarder Harold Martin pleads guilty
Threatpost talks to Phil Neray with CyberX about Tuesday’s ransomware attack on aluminum producer Norsk Hydro, and how it compares to past manufacturing attacks like Triton, WannaCry and more. Continue reading Podcast: The High-Risk Threats Behind the Norsk Hydro Cyberattack
The evolution of the new and difficult-to-detect category of fileless malware may soon take an insidious turn with the development of what some researchers are calling vaporworms.
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The United States will do more to disrupt the malicious cyber-activity that foreign adversaries are aggressively using to advance their interests, a National Security Agency official said Thursday. “We have to impose costs in a visible way to start deterrence,” said Rob Joyce, senior cybersecurity adviser at NSA. “We have to go out and try to make those operations less successful and harder to do.” Speaking to an industry association in Hanover, Maryland, Joyce cited the 2017 WannaCry and NotPetya malware outbreaks — and Russia’s use of information operations in the 2016 U.S. election — as examples of nation-states moving from “exploitation to disruption” to impose their will in cyberspace. Washington has blamed North Korea and Russia, respectively, for the devastating WannaCry and NotPetya attacks, which cost billions of dollars in economic damage. Some foreign governments have less legal constraints on their activities in cyberspace than the U.S., Joyce told a local […]
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Forward-thinking predictions for the year ahead from some of the cybersecurity industry’s wisest minds. Continue reading 2019 and Beyond: The (Expanded) RSAC Advisory Board Weighs in on What’s Next
I know that LLMNR is the “new version” of NetBIOS and both of them are basically for resolving names to IP addresses
I also know some exploits based on them, like a MiTM attack that the attacker sends a malicious response to the victim wh… Continue reading What is the role of LLMNR, NBSS and NBNS protocols in WannaCry? [closed]
Hopefully the title of this blog has gotten your attention. In one of my prior blogs, ICS Cybersecurity: Visibility, Protective Controls, Continuous Monitoring – Wash, Rinse, Repeat, we talked about how the malicious threat landscape for industri… Continue reading Triton, BlackEnergy, WannaCry – Has Your Behavior Changed?
If you’ve developed an artificial intelligence tool capable of predicting the next ransomware outbreak, Microsoft wants to hear about it. And they’re willing to pay. More than 300 data scientists, security practitioners and academics are involved in an initiative to help Microsoft determine which Windows machines are the most vulnerable to malicious software. The competition challenges participants to assess the probability a device will be hit with malware based on different factors about the machine, ranging from the firewall configuration to the antivirus software and CPU. Microsoft announced the competition on Dec. 13, giving participants three months to develop an algorithm that can predict whether a Windows 10 or Windows XP computer, for example, is likely to be infected with the next major virus, organizers said. The competition offers a glimpse at how cybersecurity will blend with artificial intelligence and machine learning, as major companies invest in experiments that could […]
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The internet is a bustling place, with hackers constantly firing exploits against whoever they can. Cybersecurity firm GreyNoise is trying to filter out some of that noise. Continue reading This Cybersecurity Firm Listens to the Background ‘Noise’ of the Internet