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University officials said users likely kicked off a ransomware attack that infected a dozen personal and shared drives by visiting a compromised website. Continue reading Ransomware Attack Hobbles Prestigious University College London
Researchers at Telefonica’s cybersecurity unit ElevenPaths conducted an analysis of WannaCry metadata. Continue reading Metadata Analysis Draws its Own Conclusions on WannaCry Authors
Researchers at Telefonica’s cybersecurity unit ElevenPaths conducted an analysis of WannaCry metadata. Continue reading Metadata Analysis Draws its Own Conclusions on WannaCry Authors
In its annual National Exposure Index report, Rapid7 found 160 million computers, IoT devices and servers with open ports that should not be exposed to the public network. Continue reading Post-WannaCry, 5.5 Million Devices Still Expose SMB Port
Microsoft released patches on Tuesday for unsupported versions of Windows, a decision prompted by three NSA exploits that remained unaddressed from April’s ShadowBrokers leak. Continue reading Rare XP Patches Fix Three Remaining Leaked NSA Exploits
What will it take to improve cybersecurity in the problem-plagued healthcare industry? Continue reading Is it time for cash for medical “Clunkers”?
Microsoft took the highly unusual step Tuesday of releasing new Windows XP patches because of a “heightened risk” of nation-state activity and “attacks with characteristics similar to WannaCrypt. ” According to a company statement, the same treatment is being afforded Windows Server 2003, another unsupported but widely used operating system dangerously vulnerable to attack. “In reviewing the updates for this month, some vulnerabilities were identified that pose elevated risk of cyber attacks by government organizations, sometimes referred to as nation-state actors or other copycat organizations,” Adrienne Hall, a general manager at Microsoft’s security response center, wrote in a blog post. “To address this risk, today we are providing additional security updates along with our regular Update Tuesday service. These security updates are being made available to all customers, including those using older versions of Windows.” Windows XP and Server 2003 users have to manually download the new patches. The WannaCry ransomware outbreak impacted […]
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Citing an elevated risk for destructive attacks, Microsoft today included patches for vulnerabilities in Windows XP among its Patch Tuesday updates. Continue reading Risk of ‘Destructive Cyber Attacks’ Prompts Microsoft to Update XP Again
Kaspersky Lab said it has seen some of the first exploits targeting a patched Samba vulnerability, and those are being used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Continue reading Attackers Mining Cryptocurrency Using Exploits for Samba Vulnerability
Not long ago, news appeared online of a younger sibling for the sensational vulnerability EternalBlue. The story was about a new vulnerability for *nix-based systems – EternalRed (aka SambaCry). On May 30th our honeypots captured the first attack to make use of this particular vulnerability, but the payload in this exploit had nothing in common with the Trojan-Crypt that was EternalBlue and WannaCry. Continue reading SambaCry is coming