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Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

How past threats and technical developments influence the evolution of malware

If we want to anticipate how malware will evolve in the near future, we have to keep two things in mind: past threats and current technical developments. “The evolution of malware-related threats is like a sine wave movement, re-infused by new technology developments,” Christiaan Beek, Lead Scientist and Senior Principal Engineer, McAfee, told Help Net…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Florida City Pays $600,000 Ransom to Save Computer Records

The Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to pay the hackers’ demands, believing the Palm Beach suburb had no choice if it wanted to retrieve its records, which the hackers encrypted. The council already voted to spend almost $1 million on new computers and hardware after hackers captured the city’s system three weeks…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Researchers develop new technique to identify malware in embedded systems

A technique for detecting types of malware that use a system’s architecture to thwart traditional security measures has been developed by researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin. The new detection approach works by tracking power fluctuations in embedded systems. “Embedded systems are basically any computer that doesn’t have…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

When Every Attack Is a Zero Day

The collective efforts of hackers have fundamentally changed the cyber defense game. Today, adversarial automation is being used to create and launch new attacks at such a rate and volume that every strain of malware must now be considered a zero day and every attack considered an advanced persistent threat. That’s not hyperbole. According to…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Examining Triton Attack Framework: Lessons Learned in Protecting Industrial Systems

Recently, the infamous Triton (also known as Trisis) malware framework made news again after researchers from FireEye found evidence of the same attacker lurking in other critical infrastructure. In 2017, Triton was behind an attack that shut down Schneider Electric’s Triconex safety instrumentation system (SIS) at a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia — the malware…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Main threat source to industrial computers? Mass-distributed malware

Malicious cyber activities on Industrial Control System (ICS) computers are considered an extremely dangerous threat as they could potentially cause material losses and production downtime in the operation of industrial facilities. In 2018, the share of ICS computers that experienced such activities grew to 47.2 percent from 44 percent in 2017, indicating that the threat…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Researchers unveil February 2019’s most wanted malware

Coinhive has once again led Check Point’s Global Threat Index for the 15th consecutive month, despite the announcement that its services have been shut down from March 8th 2019. GandCrab ransomware Researchers have also discovered several widespread campaigns distributing the GandCrab ransomware that have targeted Japan, Germany, Canada and Australia. These nations are just part…