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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. [...]
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Hackers Stole $31 Million from Russia's Central Bank
Unidentified hackers have stolen $31 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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Sysadmin Gets Two Years in Prison for Sabotaging ISP
A judge in New York has sentenced Dariusz J. Prugar, 32, of Syracuse, New York, to two years in prison for hacking his former employee, Pa Online, an internet service provider (ISP) formerly located in Enola, Pennsylvania. [...]
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Visa Payment Cards Vulnerable to Brute-Forcing
A study released by researchers from Newcastle University shows that it could take an attacker around six seconds to guess payment card details, which he could later use to carry out fraudulent transactions. [...]