17 types of Trojans and how to defend against them
Computer Trojans received their name from the infamous mythological horse. The Trojan’s basic mission is to mislead people of its real goal. A Trojan is malicious software that usually needs to be launched by the user or another malicious program. Malicious code typically penetrates the system under the guise of a useful utility or tool….
Russian Pleads Not Guilty in Foiled Tesla Ransomware Plot
“I’m not guilty,” Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov said in response to a charge of conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer. He said earlier in the hearing that he wanted “to go through the whole process as fast as possible.” Kriuchkov, 26, also told U.S. Magistrate Judge Carla Baldwin that he knew the Russian…
How to secure vulnerable printers on a Windows network
At the recent Black Hat conference, Peleg Hadar and Tumar Bar of SafeBreach Labs pointed out that the way to a network’s heart is often through its printers. In 2010, one of the vulnerabilities Stuxnet used was a remote code execution on a computer with printer sharing enabled. To reach Iran’s centrifuges, Stuxnet exploited a…
A history of ransomware: The motives and methods behind these evolving attacks
One day in December 1989, Eddy Willems got a floppy disk that changed his life. His boss gave it to him after finding the label intriguing: “AIDS Version 2.0,” a disease that was new and strange at that time. The company, based in Antwerp, Belgium, sold medical insurance among other things, and some AIDS statistics…
