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Netflix blocks rooted devices, HP laptops are logging your keystrokes, Google Chrome is vulnerable, and more. Jason Wood of Paladin Security joins us to discuss a global tech support scheme on this episode of Hack Naked News! Full Show Notes Visit http… Continue reading May 16, 2017 – Hack Naked News #125
A mysterious group known for publishing highly classified computer code developed by the National Security Agency returned to the limelight Tuesday with a cryptic message concerning the future release of other government hacking tools and secretive information, including “network data from Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and North Korean nuclear missile programs.” “TheShadowBrokers is having many more where coming from?” a lengthy message posted Tuesday morning by the peculiar group reads, claiming they own “75% of U.S. cyber arsenal.” The message also cites the Equation Group, which has been observed operating in the wild by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab and is believed to associated with an elite hacking unit within the NSA. “This is theshadowbrokers way of telling theequationgroup ‘all your bases are belong to us.’ TheShadowBrokers is not being interested in stealing grandmothers’ retirement money. This is always being about theshadowbrokers vs theequationgroup.” Since the Shadow Brokers posted their first message to […]
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The latest rant from the ShadowBrokers ends with news of a subscription service starting in June that will leak exploits and stolen data to paying customers. Continue reading ShadowBrokers Planning Monthly Exploit, Data Dump Service
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner has written to federal officials asking for details about how agencies patched their systems to protect them against the fast-spreading WannaCry ransomware. White House homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert told reporters during the daily briefing Monday that no federal systems had been infected, but Warner noted in his letter that despite a National Institute of Standards and Technology recommendation that security-related software updates “be installed within a defined timeframe (in many cases seven to 30 days for critical patches),” the Government Accountability Office last year found “numerous instances where agencies failed to comply with those deadlines.” Microsoft included a fix for the vulnerability in a regularly scheduled patch in mid-March. Over the weekend, the company took the unprecedented step of releasing a patch for several discontinued but still widely used software products, including Windows XP. In the letter, released Monday afternoon, the Virginia senator asks Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Office of […]
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Democratic Sen. Mark Warner has written to federal officials asking for details about how agencies patched their systems to protect them against the fast-spreading WannaCry ransomware. White House homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert told reporters during the daily briefing Monday that no federal systems had been infected, but Warner noted in his letter that despite a National Institute of Standards and Technology recommendation that security-related software updates “be installed within a defined timeframe (in many cases seven to 30 days for critical patches),” the Government Accountability Office last year found “numerous instances where agencies failed to comply with those deadlines.” Microsoft included a fix for the vulnerability in a regularly scheduled patch in mid-March. Over the weekend, the company took the unprecedented step of releasing a patch for several discontinued but still widely used software products, including Windows XP. In the letter, released Monday afternoon, the Virginia senator asks Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Office of […]
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After the recent spread of WannaCrypt, there has been a lot of warnings about the dangers of emails and clicking on links in them.
But the malware is spreading as a worm using SMB to infect other vulnerable computers.
Here … Continue reading What do emails have to do with the spread of WannaCrypt?
A special compilation of security news related to the recent Worldwide outbreak of ransomware which has caused chaos for multiple organizations.
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At the moment, this is only a lead into the origins of the WannaCry attacks. Continue reading Snippet of WannaCry Ransomware Linked to Suspected North Korean Malware
Moments ago, Neel Mehta, a researcher at Google posted a mysterious message on Twitter. The cryptic message in fact refers to similarity between samples that have shared code between themselves. The two samples Neel refers to post are a Wannacry cryptor sample and a Lazarus APT group sample. Continue reading WannaCry and Lazarus Group – the missing link?
The ransomware known as WannaCry that spread rapidly to 300,000 machines in 150 countries over the past few days shares code with malware written by a group of North Korean hackers known as the Lazarus Group. While the shared code is important, experts warned that it’s far from proof about who created and launched the ransomware attacks. Neel Mehta, a security researcher at Google, first pointed out the shared code on Monday on Twitter. The link was quickly echoed by numerous other experts. Shared code between an early, Feb 2017 Wannacry cryptor and a Lazarus group backdoor from 2015 found by @neelmehta from Google. pic.twitter.com/hmRhCSusbR — Costin Raiu (@craiu) May 15, 2017 Similitude between #WannaCry and Contopee from Lazarus Group ! thx @neelmehta – Is DPRK behind #WannaCry ? pic.twitter.com/uJ7TVeATC5 — Matthieu Suiche (@msuiche) May 15, 2017 “From a technical point of view those two functions and their references are identical,” said […]
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