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Taiwan chipmaker TSMC is back up and running, and pinning the blame for its shutdown on an infection by WannaCry ransomware. Continue reading iPhone chipmaker blames ransomware for factory shutdowns
Production lines were halted for two days, and the effects to the global supply chain for mobile phones could be felt for the third quarter and beyond. Continue reading Top iPhone Supplier Battles WannaCry Infection
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WannaCry ransomware hero is facing charges in the United States for developing Kronos banking trojan. In August 2017, Marcus Hutchins (@MalwareTechBlog on Twitter) aka WannaCry ransomware hero was arrested in the United States by the FBI and c… Continue reading New variant of Kronos banking trojan spotted using Tor network
Private sector security companies had a key role in the U.S. government’s attribution of last year’s WannaCry ransomware epidemic to North Korea, an official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said on Friday. Speaking at a Washington Post Live event, Tonya Ugoretz, director of ODNI’s Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC), said that the small agency she leads acted as a liaison to get critical information about the global attack from the private sector to U.S. intelligence agencies. Ugoretz said that CTIIC learned of information about WannaCry that had been fed to Department of Homeland Security by its private sector partners. The information would play an important role in the attribution to North Korea months later, Ugoretz explained. CTIIC comprises staff from intelligence, law enforcement and other federal agencies with the goal of helping coordinate responses to cyberthreats. “DHS had that by virtue of their private sector relationships, and we asked […]
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As hospitals continue to face cybersecurity issues stemming from vulnerable networks and medical gear, investors are throwing money at companies focused on defending them from hackers. CyberMDX, a New York-based medical cybersecurity startup, announced on Tuesday that it raised $10 million in Series A funding, led by led by Pitango Venture Capital with participation from OurCrowd Qure. The company’s product, MDefend, provides companies with visibility of the medical devices on their networks and looks out for threats and vulnerabilities associated with them. Recent research shows that health care organizations are flooded with vulnerable, unpatched medical devices, many of which are visible on the open web to hackers. Such conditions are part of what made the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 so widespread. The virus slowed hospitals globally to a crawl because hackers locked practitioners out of their devices. “The expedited growth of connected medical devices poses exceptional challenges for hospital […]
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For example, these are unpatched old OS.
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE
Windows ME
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Given that SMBv1 is not disabled on host but already patched.
Is the unpatched guest OS itself still vulnerable on … Continue reading Is it safe to install MS17-010 unpatched OS as guest on patched host?
InfoSec Insider Justin Jett shares his opinions on how to avoid false positive security threat fatigue before sets in and companies drop their guard. Continue reading Keeping False Positives in Check
Governments must embrace an immune system approach centered on security intelligence to stay ahead of advanced cyberthreats looking to breach the ever-widening perimeter of smart cities.
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So long story short I wanted to test out WannaCry on my Windows 7 guest machine, thing is I forgot to disable the network connection / interface in virtualbox and ran it. Only seconds later I realized it and immediately deact… Continue reading Can WannaCry infect my local network and its devices?
As more and more devices are connected to the process control network, there are more and more risks related to potential impacts from industrial cyber security events, some of which may not even be targeted against industrial control systems (ICS). Fo… Continue reading Visibility: An Essential Component of Industrial Cyber Security