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Most ransomware deployers manage to stay unidentified because they exercise good OPSEC backed by The Onion Router and Bitcoin. The case of the cybercrook who compromised the computer network of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni) last Friday turned out to be the exception rather than the rule. According to Brian Krebs, a well-known […]
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The IT infrastructure of the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency (SFMTA), also referred to as Muni, has been suffering a deep ransomware impact since last weekend. The perpetrating program called HDDCryptor, also known as Mamba, hit more than 2,000 machines on Muni’s network. The collateral damage is that the infection disabled the agency’s digital fare […]
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Ransomware operators appear to be realizing the risk of being exposed and prosecuted. This pressure is being heated up by the fairly successful activity of Chainalysis, a relatively new startup aimed at tracking Bitcoin transactions. This initiative may lead to effective attribution of ransomware attacks through chasing the cryptocurrency paid by victims. The breaking news […]
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Locky ransomware devs appear to have been really busy rolling out updates to their nefarious extortion product lately. Less than a month after the emergence of the previous “Odin” variant, a brand-new iteration has been discovered that appends the .shit extension to one’s crippled files. Other than the somewhat different filename skewing effect, this version […]
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Malware-stricken home appliances aren’t that much of a science fiction these days. Two ethical hackers took the floor at the Def Con 24 security event last week to demonstrate a proof-of-concept involving a compromise of a smart device. Andrew Tierney and Ken Munro with Pen Test Partners, a UK based penetration testing and security services […]
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TeslaCrypt, one of the most potent ransomware stains operating since early 2015, has gone extinct. That’s certainly some good news for those who fell victim to it and the thousands of users who could yet be compromised over these sophisticated attacks. TeslaCrypt originally kicked off as a crypto malware campaign that targeted computer gamers but […]
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Threat actors running the ill-famed Cerber ransomware campaign have recently come up with a new way to distribute their malicious code. The attack vector involves an obfuscated ad script on The Pirate Bay, a well-known torrent resource. Visitors of thepiratebay.se have therefore been exposed to a series of stealthy redirects which led them to gates […]
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Healthcare providers are being increasingly targeted by cybercriminals. A series of recent attacks against U.S. hospitals have shown just how vulnerable these types of organizations are in the face of ransomware, a type of aggressive computer malware that encrypts data and extorts a ransom for recovery. Servers of the MedStar healthcare company suffered a compromise […]
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Mobile content providers stick with a business model where people sign up for their services and get subsequently charged for this on a weekly or monthly basis. Such a modus operandi is legal, moreover, lots of subscribers are satisfied because they thus get access to various entertainment platforms, news feeds, weather forecasts and the like. […]
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The article starts explaining why and how Russia hosts probably the most capacious source of malicious programs worldwide. It’s common knowledge that most of the contemporary computer threats come from countries which do not apply appropriate effort to nip malware developers/releasers. A good or rather the most striking example of such kind is Russia, notorious […]
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