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The current state of cybersecurity is complex, fast-moving and a critical risk to all organizations. Understanding where U.S. businesses stack up in terms of their security knowledge and defense strategy is of utmost importance. It’s critical that lea… Continue reading Side-Channel Attacks: Cyber Warfare’s New Battleground
You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 82 for August 19th 2019: The BioStar2 biometric security data breach, wormable vulnerabilitie… Continue reading Biometric Security Data Breach, Critical Windows Vulnerabilities, FBI Data Harvesting
Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities in a popular Windows program that could allow hackers to remotely execute code on machines that would let them install their own programs, delete or alter data, or set up their own user accounts. The vulnerabilities are “wormable,” meaning that malware exploiting them could be used to move between vulnerable computers without user interaction. That puts them in the same category as another serious Windows flaw, BlueKeep, which was announced in May, and the vulnerability exploited in the 2017 WannaCry ransomware outbreak. Like BlueKeep, which many users have not patched, the latest vulnerabilities are in Remote Desktop Services, a Windows program that grants remote access to computers for administrative purposes. WannaCry, which the U.S. government says was the work of North Korean hackers, caused billions of dollars in damage while infecting computers in 150 countries. There is no public documentation of BlueKeep being exploited in the wild, but […]
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By Uzair Amir
The new Android ransomware was initially spread through Reddit and XDA-Developers’ forum.
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Marcus Hutchins, also known by his online alias MalwareTech, has been spared jail time in his sentencing for the creation of the Kronos malware. Continue reading ‘WannaCry Hero’ Avoids Jail Time in Kronos Malware Charges
Wrote malware for money, went straight, got busted, didn’t go to prison. Has US cybercrime enforcement gone soft? Continue reading WannaCry hero gets off lightly, avoids prison – was justice done?
By Waqas
The British cyber security researcher and WannaCry ransomware hero Marcus Hutchin was initially facing up to 10 years in a US prison.
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A British cybersecurity researcher best known for halting the spread of the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak two years ago will avoid prison for creating banking malware that surfaced in 2014. A federal judge in the Eastern District of Wisconsin on Friday sentenced 25-year-old Marcus Hutchins to time served and one year of supervised release, according to reporters in the courtroom. The decision brings to a dramatic close a legal saga that has absorbed the cybersecurity community for years. Hutchins, also known by the Twitter handle “MalwareTech,” had faced up to a decade in prison after pleading guilty in April to two counts related to writing and distributing the Kronos banking trojan, and another piece of malware known as UPAS Kit. Hutchins created Kronos as a black hat hacker, a life he disavowed before the WannaCry ransomware virus infected more than 200,000 computers in roughly 150 countries in May 2017. Hutchins, working as a security researcher at […]
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I’ve been asked by my line manager to do some research on WannaCry as he suspects, or rather has heard rumours of, resurfacing of the WannaCry virus here and there.
Two years after the WannaCry ransomware outbreak shone a light on the computer security of the the UK’s National Health Service, and five years after Microsoft said it would no longer release patches for Windows XP, the NHS still has 2300 PCs running t… Continue reading Thousands of NHS computers are still running Windows XP from beyond the grave