Petya or NoPetya: a ransomware deadlier than WannaCry
Another "ransomware-as-a-service" nightmare - a growing concern that potentially opens up crime to non-technical audiences and opportunists The world is suffering another ransomware nightmare today, with pharmaceutical companies, Chernobyl radiation detection systems, the Kiev metro, an airport, and banks all affected. One U.S. hospital also appears to have become a victim. Worse is expected to come, thanks to some pernicious features in the ransomware sample. The malware wid
Cyberattackers targeting Canadian businesses (through phishing email scams and social engineering)
A group of cyberattackers that has been targeting Canadian businesses in financially-motivated hacks since at least 2013 has been identified in a new report. Cybersecurity firm FireEye has dubbed the group of attackers as “FIN10” in a report titled “FIN10 Anatomy of a Cyber Extortion Operation” released on Friday morning. FIN10 operates in North America with a predominant focus on Canadian organizations, particularly casinos and mining companies. FireEye believes the group is
Beyond phishing: Hackers now hiding cyber attacks in social media messages
It took only one attempt for Russian hackers to get into the computer of a Pentagon official. But the attack did not come through an e-mail or a file buried within a seemingly innocuous document. A link, attached to a Twitter post put out by a robot account, promised a family-friendly vacation package for the summer. It was the kind of thing anyone might click on, according to the official hit by the attack, who was not authorised to speak publicly about it. That is exactly t
Another large-scale cyberattack underway: experts
Another large-scale, stealthy cyberattack is underway on a scale that could dwarf last week's assault on computers worldwide, a global cybersecurity firm told AFP on Wednesday. The new attack targets the same vulnerabilities the WannaCry ransomware worm exploited but, rather than freeze files, uses the hundreds of thousands of computers believed to have been infected to mine virtual currency. Following the detection of the WannaCry attack on Friday, "researchers at Proofpoint
