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Carleton University dealing with a Ransomware Outbreak asking for 39 Bitcoins
Multiple Windows computers at Carleton University have been infected with ransomware and caused downtime for many computer services. It is unknown what ransomware the computers are infected with, but a student has said that the ransomware devs demand 39 bitcoins to decrypt them all. [...]
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Shamoon Disk Wiper Malware Returns in New Attacks
Shamoon, also known as Disttrack, a malware family that's specialized in wiping data from hard drives, has returned with new attacks, and once more is taking aim at companies in Saudi Arabia. [...]
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As of Today, US Law Enforcement Has New Hacking Powers
As of December 1, 2016, US law enforcement has gained new hacking powers thanks to changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that now simplify the process of getting warrants to hack into devices of US citizens and the citizens of other countries. [...]
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Hacker Gets 4 Years in Prison for Selling Stolen Bank Accounts on the Dark Web
A judge in Atlanta, Georgia, has sentenced Aaron James Glende, a hacker known as IcyEagle, to four years and two months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for selling access to stolen bank accounts and others, via the AlphaBay Dark Web marketplace. [...]
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Massive "Avalanche" Malware Distribution Network Shut Down by Authorities
Law enforcement agencies and Internet companies from across the globe have worked together to take down one of the largest cyber-crime networks ever discovered in the past decade. Their efforts resulted in the arrest of five suspects, searchers at 37 locations, the seizure of 37 servers, and the takedown of 221 other servers. [...]
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Windows 10 Insider Build 14977 only released to Mobile Insiders this Week
Today Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14977 for Mobile only to Insiders on the fast ring.  The only new feature in this build is the ability for Windows Mobile users to read EPUB books in Microsoft Edge on their phone.  This feature was already released to PC users in build 14971. [...]
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Google Chrome 55.0.2883.75 fixes 36 Security Updates with 70K in Bounties
Version 55.0.2883.75 of Google Chrome was released today, which fixes 26 reported vulnerabilities and others discovered internally by Google. Unfortunately, at this time the severity of these vulnerabilities are not known, but based on the bounty rewards, at least 5 of them could be remote execution or XSS vulnerabilities. [...]
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Pacemakers Can Be Hacked to Harm or Kill Patients
Scientists and medical professionals published a research paper in which they detailed a simple and inexpensive approach to creating a device that can be used to hack Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators (ICDs), also referred to as pacemakers. [...]
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Visbot Malware Found on 6,691 Magento Online Stores
Nearly 6,700 online stores running on top of the Magento platform are infected with the Visbot malware that hides on web servers, steals credit card information, encrypts it, hides it inside an image, and sends the encrypted credit card data to a crook's servers afterward. [...]
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Hackers Stole $45 Million from Russia's Central Bank
Unidentified hackers have stolen $45 million (?2 billion) from customer accounts at Russia's Central Bank, but officials have managed to recover $26 million (?1.66 billion) from the stolen funds, said the bank in a report released today. [...]
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The Week in Ransomware - December 2nd 2016 - Screenlockers, Kangaroo, the SFMTA, and More!
Lots of small ransomware infections / screenlockers this week, but no major infections were discovered. Thankfully, security researchers were able to create a bunch of decryptors and make them available for victim's to recover their files. Of particular note was the San Francisco MTA getting hit hard by the HDDCryptor ransomware. [...]