Hacking News

The $1 million ransom payment paid last week by South Korean web hosting company Nayana has sparked new extortion attempts on South Korean companies. According to local media, seven banks have received emails that asked the organizations to pay ransoms of nearly $315,000 or suffer downtime via DDoS attacks. Read more

Some Intel CPU models are affected by a bug that crashes computers when a certain sequence of operations are being processed. The bug was discovered by a developer working on the OCaml compiler and was reported to Intel last year. Intel rolled out a fix for the issue in the form of a microcode errata

Tens of thousands of developers using weak credentials to secure their npm accounts inadvertently put more than half of the npm packages (JavaScript libraries and tools) at risk of getting hijacked and used to deploy malicious code to legitimate applications that use them in their build process. npm Inc, the company that runs the npm

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. At the time of writing, the ransomware

Biscom, a secure document delivery provider, recently patched a serious vulnerability in its secure file transfer product that could have allowed an authenticated hacker access to data shared between other users. Privately alerted in April by Rapid7 (a Biscom customer), the company released an updated version of its product on May 3. Read more

As its name indicates, the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will include primarily new features and updates for “creators.” But Microsoft also will be adding some features to this next feature update to Windows 10 for Enterprise and Windows Server users, too. Read more

Ransomware is here to stay and is only going to get more dangerous as cybercriminals move towards increasingly sophisticated forms of the cryptographic malware to carry out targeted attacks. This grim forecast is made by Kapersky Lab in its newly released Ransomware in 2016 – 2017 report – but it isn’t all completely bad news,

A number of firms around the world are reporting that they have been impacted by a major cyber attack which the UK’s cyber security agency is describing as a “global ransomware incident.” Read more

GlobalFoundries is a semiconductor foundry with plants located worldwide. They are fairly well known for their contribution in engineering integrated circuits for semiconductor companies like Broadcom and STMicroelectronics. Just recently, GlobalFoundries confirmed that their Essex Junction plant was infected by a computer virus via manufacturing tools. The tools were taken down in response to the

Google Project Zero continues to scrape away at the ubiquitous Microsoft Malware Protection Engine at the core of many security products embedded in Windows, and it continues to discover new critical vulnerabilities. Read more