Hacking News

Worldwide operations and communications of Netherlands-based FedEx subsidiary TNT Express have been “significantly affected due to the infiltration of an information system virus” and the impact “could be material,” the company said in a release today. Read more

The Petyr ransomware outbreak has certainly caused problems for some high profile organsations including an airport and a major oil company, but estimating how wide its impact has actually been is harder. Read more

Severe security flaws have been discovered in Kaspersky’s Anti-Virus File Server software.On Wednesday, CoreLabs, the security arm of Core Security, issued a public advisory relating to a number of security problems in Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux File Server 8.0.3.297. Read more

Two devastating global ransomware outbreaks, WannaCry and Petya, spread quickly because of a vulnerability in one of the internet’s most ancient networking protocols, Server Message Block version 1 (aka SMBv1). Your PCs that run Windows 10 are protected from that exploit, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be so lucky the next time. Read more

The latest Petya ransomware has been described to be more vicious than its predecessor, but its impact in Singapore remains largely uncertain for now as there have been no reports of major disruptions. Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCERT) issued an advisory Wednesday warning local businesses and users that Petya, though inspired by WannaCry, was “more

Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed some initial infections in the Petya ransomware attacks occurred via Ukraine-based tax accounting software firm M.E.Doc, which develops MEDoc. The finding solves part of the mystery surrounding yesterday’s huge ransomware outbreak that hit industry giants like shipping firm Maersk, but took a particularly heavily toll on organizations in the Ukraine, including

There are early signs of a new ransomware outbreak, currently affecting a large number of countries across the globe, such as the UK, Ukraine, India, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, and others. This ransom uses the contact details of wowsmith123456@posteo.net and asks for a payment of $300 in Bitcoin. Read more

In the first hours of the attack, researchers believed this new ransomware was a new version of an older threat called Petya, but they later discovered that this was a new strain altogether, which borrowed some code from Petya, hence the reason why they recently started it calling it NotPetya, Petna, or as we like

Last week, long before the Petya / NotPetya ransomware broke out, there was another ransomware campaign that targeted Ukrainian users with a vengeance. That ransomware’s name was PSCrypt and is the third ransomware strain that has aggressively targeted Ukrainian users during the past month, after XData and NotPetya. Read more

Today, June 28th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the ELSA project of the CIA. ELSA is a geo-location malware for WiFi-enabled devices like laptops running the Micorosoft Windows operating system. Once persistently installed on a target machine using separate CIA exploits, the malware scans visible WiFi access points and records the ESS identifier, MAC address