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Three months after WannaCry impacted more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries, the bitcoins paid by victims have been exchanged for Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that’s seen a spike in popularity and price over the last year, according to researchers at the Italian cryptocurrency intelligence firm Neutrino. Beginning on Wednesday night, a Twitter bot set up by the business blog Quartz watched as money was drained from the wallet. The first such transaction can be seen below: 🚨 7.34128314 BTC ($20,055.52 USD) has just been withdrawn from a bitcoin wallet tied to #wcry ransomware. https://t.co/wX2k9pJLNQ — actual ransom (@actual_ransom) August 3, 2017 Alberto Ornaghi, Neutrino’s chief technology officer, told CyberScoop that Monero is attractive because “it’s a highly oriented privacy cryptocurrency.” The idea of shifting the funds to to Monero, a three-year old project widely seen as a powerful anonymization tool, has been bandied about for months by a wide range of observers. It looks […]
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Pharmaceutical kingpin Merck reported that operational disruptions continue more than a month after the NotPetya wiper malware attacks. Continue reading Pharmaceutical Giant Still Feeling NotPetya’s Sting
At Black Hat last week, an add-on Windows driver and filesystem called ShieldFS was unveiled that detects ransomware and recovers files. Continue reading ShieldFS Can Detect Ransomware, Recover Files
A ransomware study released Google revealed the malware earned criminals $25 million over the past two years. Continue reading Google Study Quantifies Ransomware Profits
New analysis of recent North Korean internet traffic reveals that the reclusive regime is most likely carrying out its cyber-operations via the networks of other countries across Asia, Oceania and Africa. The report released Tuesday by threat intelligence firm Recorded Future finds fast-growing internet usage in North Korea that in many ways mirrors what people do online elsewhere: North Koreans go on social media, stream video, play video games and shop. But “a near absence of malicious cyber activity” from within North Korea itself supports the longstanding assumption that Pyongyang conducts cyber-operations from outside its own borders, researchers concluded. Another key piece of evidence that Recorded Future found in the data, which was collected by the nonprofit Internet security research group Team Cymru: above-average activity from North Korea’s internet to notable points in a handful of foreign countries, including China and India. The data was gathered from April 1 to July 6 on internet address blocks believed to be used by […]
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A shift in APT tactics is emerging as characterized by the destructive ExPetr attacks hidden in ransomware, and WannaCry, which also failed to turn a profit. Continue reading Motivation Mystery Behind WannaCry, ExPetr
The first half of 2017 began with two intriguing ransomware events, both partly enabled by wormable exploit technology dumped by a group calling themselves “The ShadowBrokers”. These WannaCry and ExPetr ransomware events are the biggest in the sense that they spread the quickest and most effectively of known ransomware to date. Continue reading A King’s Ransom It is Not
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the Verizon breach, the Oracle session hijacking attack, a Telegram-based hacking tool, and a free EternalBlue scanner. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, July 14, 2017