WannaCry
Log4j: Three Flaws and Counting
“With the attention CVE-2021-44228 has received, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a third CVE related to #Log4j2,” Valtix Senior Security Analyst Davis McCarthy said last week. Those prophetic words turned ...
Malicious Life Podcast: Marcus Hutchins – A Controversial Hero
In May 2017, Marcus Hutchins - AKA MalwareTech - became a hero for stopping WannaCry, a particularly nasty ransomware that spread quickly all over the world. Yet his fame also brought to ...
The Largest Pipeline Network went down by Cyberattack
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MalwareTech, WannaCry and Kronos – Understanding the Connections
As Marcus Hutchins was on his way home to the UK after attending Def Con and Black Hat in Las Vegas, NV, the FBI arrested him. This event sparked immediate internet outcry, ...
U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million
The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over the past decade, ...
Why Enterprises Must Take Ransomware Attacks Seriously
Ransomware attacks are well-documented as a legitimate threat, but haven’t often been taken seriously until recently. Preventing a problem that may or may not happen wasn’t seen as a worthy IT or ...
Old Vulnerabilities Open the Door for WannaCry Ransomware
More than three years since it was discovered, WannaCry is still a threat for some organizations, research has found How often does your organization conduct a security assessment? Once a year? Once ...
Book Review: Crime Dot Com, From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global
I had the great delight of reading Geoff White’s new book, “Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global”, I thoroughly recommend it. The book is superbly researched ...
Passwords are and have always been an Achilles Heel in CyberSecurity
LogMeOnce, a password identity management suite provider, has published a detailed interview with myself titled 'Passwords are and have always been an Achilles Heel in CyberSecurity'. In the Q&A I talk about ...
U.S. Government offers $5 million bounty for information on North Korean cyber criminals
Yesterday, the U.S. Departments of State, Treasury, Homeland Security, and FBI released a joint report offering guidance on the emerging North Korean (previously known as DPRK) cyber threat, and highlighting the malicious ...
