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The UK Government’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that firms could face fines of up to £17m or 4% of global turnover if they fail to protect themselves from cyberattacks. The introduction of such financial penalties will be carried out by the data protection regulator, […]

Fines of £17m for unprotected UK firms

14 Aug, 2017 in News tagged companies / cyber / fines / malware / uk by admin

Malware analysis is like defusing bombs. The objective is to disassemble and understand a program that was built to do harm or spy on computer users (oops, this is where the bomb analogy fails, but one gets the point). That program is often obfuscated (ie: packed) to make the analysis […]

Malboxes: a Tool to Build Malware Analysis Virtual Machines

17 Feb, 2017 in News tagged malboxes / malware / virtual / vm by admin

A large Los Angeles hospital chose to pay hackers who were holding its computer network hostage, a move its CEO said was in its best interest and the most efficient way to end the problem. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center showed uncommon transparency in saying Wednesday that it paid the 40 bitcoins […]

LA Hospital Pays Ransomware

20 Feb, 2016 in News tagged encryption / hospital / LA / malware / ransom / ransomware by admin

GOOGLE’S SECURITY street gang Project Zero has been kicking sand in the face of Malwarebytes and picking the firm’s protection precautions apart. Malwarebytes usually wears the boot in this kind of thing, but Project Zero has taken a punt in the security firm’s direction and accused it of all sorts […]

Google’s Project Zero gives Malwarebytes a kicking

3 Feb, 2016 in News tagged anti virus / AV / google / malware / malwarebytes / project zero / vulnerabilities by admin

There are over 10,000 machines that are currently infected by malware in Nasa, showing that the US space agency definitely does not have the best possible cybersecurity practices and needs to completely overhaul how it secures its internal network, a leading security firm has warned. On Monday 1 February, IBTimes […]

Nasa hack: 10,000 machines infected by malware, says security expert

2 Feb, 2016 in Uncategorized tagged drone / hack / hacking / infection / malware / NASA by admin

SSH Kippo Honeypot — So I have had my kippo honeypot running for a while and got some pretty good statistics from it. But after a while I got bored and turned it all off. I decided to fire it back up again and got some interesting hits from 125.88.177.248. It seems to be trying […]

Kippo Honeypot Attack – Linux XorDDOS malware

6 Jan, 2016 in Tutorials tagged DDoS / honeypot / kippo / linux / malware / SSH / XOR by admin

anonymous — SYMANTEC is reporting about Linux.Wifatch They are suggesting that it might be a good guy type of internet threat that wants to solve problems with the Internet of Things. I know that this sounds a little strange, and not your usual computer infection, It’s like a cyber Batman helping people out. […]

Linux.Wifatch ‘malware’ may be patching up security flaws

2 Oct, 2015 in News tagged goodware / hero / linux / malware / patching / Security / symantec / Wifatch by admin

uTorrent is a firm favorite when it comes to BitTorrent clients, making its money through in-app ads and bundled software offered during installation. But it seems that this software may be causing some problems for uTorrent, which is now being flagged as ‘harmful’ by association. As TorrentFreak reports, uTorrent is […]

uTorrent is being blocked by Google Chrome and anti-virus vendors

23 Jul, 2015 in News tagged anti virus / AV / bittorrent / google / malware / news / torrent / utorrent by admin

Worried that you might have been targeted with Hacking Team spyware, but don’t know how to find out for sure? IT security firm Rook Security has released Milano, a free automated tool meant to detect the Hacking Team malware on a computer system. It does so by looking for files […]

Have you been infected with Hacking Teams Malware?

21 Jul, 2015 in News tagged backdoor / Hacking Team / malware / news / Rook Security / tool by admin