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White hat hacker infects smart coffee machine with ransowmare
By Waqas Avast security researcher reverse-engineered an IoT coffee machine to upload ransomware and mine Monero coin. Smart appliances have always remained a risky option for consumers, specifically when it comes to coffee machines. Back in 2015, Pen Test Partners researchers discovered security...
Windows XP Source Code Got Leaked All Over the Internet
Plus: A cruel phishing test, ransomware hits Russia, and more of the week's top security news...
Govt. Services Firm Tyler Technologies Hit in Apparent Ransomware Attack
Tyler Technologies, a Texas-based company that bills itself as the largest provider of software and technology services to the United States public sector, is battling a network intrusion that has disrupted its operations. The company declined to discuss the exact cause of the disruption, but the...
OldGremlin Ransomware Group Bedevils Russian Orgs
A new cybercriminal group called OldGremlin has been targeting Russian companies – including banks, industrial enterprises and medical firms – with ransomware attacks. OldGremlin relies on a bevy of tools, including custom backdoors called TinyPosh and TinyNode, to gain an initial foothold in the...
Documented Death from a Ransomware Attack
A Dusseldorf woman died when a ransomware attack against a hospital forced her to be taken to a different hospital in another city. I think this is the first documented case of a cyberattack causing a fatality. UK hospitals had to redirect patients during the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack, but...
A New Hacking Group Hitting Russian Companies With Ransomware
As ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure continue to spike in recent months, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new entrant that has been actively trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers i...
A New Hacking Group Hitting Russian Companies With Ransomware
As ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure continue to spike in recent months, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new entrant that has been actively trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers i...
Rapid7 Releases Q2 2020 Quarterly Threat Report
It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of September, and with it comes Rapid7’s Q2 2020 Quarterly Threat Report. As in previous quarters, our Rapid7 research team produced this report by analyzing the data from our internet telemetry-gathering systems Project Sonar and Project Heisenberg, as...
A week in security (September 14 – 20)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at Fintech industry developments, specifically the differences between Europe and the US, and we analyzed how some charities and the advertising industry are tied together. We also told readers about what companies can do to counter domain name abuse. In...
A Patient Dies After Ransomware Attack Paralyzes German Hospital Systems
German authorities last week disclosed that a ransomware attack on the University Hospital of Düsseldorf UKD caused a failure of IT systems, resulting in the death of a woman who had to be sent to another hospital that was 20 miles away. The incident marks the first recorded casualty as a...
A Patient Dies After Ransomware Attack Paralyzes German Hospital Systems
German authorities last week disclosed that a ransomware attack on the University Hospital of Düsseldorf UKD caused a failure of IT systems, resulting in the death of a woman who had to be sent to another hospital that was 20 miles away. The incident marks the first recorded casualty as a...
A Patient Dies After a Ransomware Attack Hits a Hospital
The outage resulted in a significant delay in treatment. German authorities are investigating the perpetrators on suspicion of negligent manslaughter...
Maze Ransomware Adopts Ragnar Locker Virtual-Machine Approach
The operators of the Maze ransomware have added a fresh trick to their bag of badness: Distributing ransomware payloads via virtual machines VM. It’s a “radical” approach, according to researchers, meant to help the ransomware get around endpoint defense. That’s according to researchers with Soph...
Ransomware attack on hospital causes patient’s death
By Sudais Asif Cybercriminals inflict damages every day on innocent people for monetary benefits especially when it comes to a ransomware attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ransomware attack on hospital causes patients death...
This Week in Security News: AWS Outposts Ready Launches With 32 Validated Partners and Staples Hit by a Data Breach
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how solutions from 32 Amazon Web Services partners – including Trend Micro – are now available for AWS customers to use with the...
APT41 Operatives Indicted as Sophisticated Hacking Activity Continues
UPDATE Five alleged members of the APT41 threat group have been indicted by a federal grand jury, in two separate actions that were unsealed this week. Meanwhile, the Department of Treasury also imposed sanctions on individuals and organizations associated with Iran-linked APT39. APT41 a.k.a...
California Elementary Kids Kicked Off Online Learning by Ransomware
As students head back to the classroom, the spate of ransomware attacks against schools is continuing. The latest is a strike against a California school district that closed down remote learning for 6,000 elementary school students, according to city officials. The cyberattack, against the Newha...
Industry-wide partnership on threat-informed defense improves security for all
MITRE Engenuity’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense has published a library of detailed plans for emulating the threat actor FIN6 which Microsoft tracks as TAAL, a collection of threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK data, supporting scripts, and utilities designed to enable red teams to emulate the...
Ransom from Home – How to close the cyber front door to remote working ransomware attacks
Coronavirus has caused a major shift to our working patterns. In many cases these will long outlast the pandemic. But working from home has its own risks. One is that you may invite ransomware attacks from a new breed of cyber-criminal who has previously confined his efforts to directly targeting...