PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Disrupted by Malware Attack

The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics taking place in South Korea was disrupted over the weekend following a malware attack before and during the opening ceremony on Friday. The cyber attack coincided with 12 hours of downtime on the official website for the Winter Games, the collapse of Wi-Fi in the...

BadRabbit Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine

A ransomware attack has put a halt to business inside a handful of Russian media outlets and a number of major organizations in the Ukraine, including Kiev’s public transportation system and the country’s Odessa airport. The attacks are known as Bad Rabbit and harken back to the ExPetr/NotPetya...

North Korean Actors Spear Phish U.S. Electric Companies

We can confirm that FireEye devices detected and stopped spear phishing emails sent on Sept. 22, 2017, to U.S. electric companies by known cyber threat actors likely affiliated with the North Korean government. This activity was early-stage reconnaissance, and not necessarily indicative of an...

[Video] Ukrainian Police Seize Servers of Software Firm Linked to NotPetya Cyberattack

Ukrainian National Police has released a video showing officers raiding company of M.E.Doc accounting software makers, whose systems have been linked to outbreak of Petya NotPetya ransomware that recently infected computers of several major companies worldwide. On 4th July, masked police officers...

Original Author of Petya Ransomware is Back & He Wants to Help NotPetya Victims

The author of original Petya ransomware is back. After 6 months of silence, the author of the now infamous Petya ransomware appeared today on Twitter to help victims unlock their files encrypted by a new version of Petya, also known as NotPetya. "We're back having a look in NotPetya," tweeted...

New Petya Distribution Vectors Bubbling to Surface

Join Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies Thursday June 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern time for a webinar “The Inside Story of the Petya/ExPetr Ransomware.” Click here to attend. While Microsoft and others continue to shore up links between yesterday’s global ransomware outbreak and the update...

Tools Used by Lamberts APT Found in Vault 7 Dumps

Links have emerged connecting targeted attacks going back a decade against high-profile government, industrial and financial targets around the world to hacking tools and documents leaked in the Vault 7 dump. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a technical report on the activities of a...

Destructive StoneDrill Wiper Malware On The Loose

There have been a handful of wiper malware attacks in the wild in the last decade with Shamoon’s destruction of more than 35,000 workstations at Saudi Aramco in 2012 and the Dark Seoul attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment the most high profile. However, since last fall, Shamoon has resurfaced...

Destover Wiper Malware Analysis

Researchers are starting to stitch together clues about the wiper malware that has landed a body blow to Sony Pictures Entertainment. Not only were thousands of files and documents leaked that included unreleased movies, confidential company presentations and financial records, employee records,...

FBI Flash Warning Alerts Businesses to Wiper Malware Attacks

The FBI issued a five-page flash warning yesterday urging American enterprises to be on the lookout for wiper malware. The alert, a Reuters report said, described some details about the malware but kept the victim anonymous. It’s general practice for the FBI not to name victims in such alerts. Th...

Behind the South Korean Government DDoS Attacks

BERLIN–In the last few years, there have been a series of DDoS attacks and intrusions on government networks in South Korea that have resulted in the loss of untold amounts of data. The four attacks haven’t been linked together or attributed to the same attackers, but there are some similarities ...

ICS-CERT Tips for Critical Infrastructure to Avoid Shamoon

Most publicly known malware attacks are disruptive in nature, for example causing the interruption of online banking services or taking websites temporarily offline. Few attacks cause actual physical damage to computers where hard drives are damaged and data lost or destroyed. The Shamoon virus i...

South Korea Blames North Korea for March Cyberattack

Officials from the Republic of Korea are saying North Korea’s military intelligence agency was responsible for the mid-March malware attacks that knocked several prominent South Korean banks and broadcasters offline, according to a Dow Jones Newswire report. The South Korean Science Ministry...

South Korea Cyber Attack, Wiper malware and Chinese IP Address

Yesterday we reported about a massive Cyber attack on South Korea that was responsible for shutting down networks of South Korean banks and TV broadcasters. Police are still investigating the cyber attack but the country's Communications Commission has revealed that the hacking originated from a...

Theories Abound on Wiper Malware Attack Against South Korea

Disruptions to businesses in South Korea continue today after hackers used wiper malware to take a number of banks and television networks offline yesterday. A number of financial systems at a half-dozen banks and production systems inside South Korea’s major television networks remain down,...

South Korea Cyber Attack, Wiper malware and Chinese IP Address

Yesterday we reported about a massive Cyber attack on South Korea that was responsible for shutting down networks of South Korean banks and TV broadcasters. Police are still investigating the cyber attack but the country's Communications Commission has revealed that the hacking originated from a...

Analysis Shows Traces of Wiper Malware, But No Links to Flame

One of the things about the investigation into the Flame malware that’s remained unclear for several months now is what ever became of the so-called Wiper virus that had been seen erasing data on machines in Iran and that led researchers to eventually discover Flame. No actual samples of Wiper ha...

Flaws in Shamoon Malware Reinforce Theory It's Not A Wiper Variant

Some clumsy coding discovered during an analysis of the Shamoon malware has led researchers to conclude that it is probably not related to the Wiper malware that hit some Iranian networks recently and likely isn’t the work of serious programmers. A prime error appears to come from the main...