Russia’s cyber attack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump’s election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported. In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data. The hackers accessed software […]

Chinese security firms have hit out against suggestions that last month’s global WannaCry ransomware outbreak can be blamed on China. The WannaCry ransomware epidemic hit over 300,000 PCs around the globe, using worm-like capabilities to spread and infect Microsoft Windows machines — including many in China. While nobody has uncovered evidence to specifically identify the

Patrick Wardle of Synack and the Objective-See blog talks to Mike Mimoso about the emergence of a ransomware service targeting MacOS machines. Wardle explains why he characterizes MacRansom as “lame” and whether this could kick off a wave of copycats vying for the Apple platform. Read more

Today’s successful malware writers are remarkable in their ability to adjust not only their technical capabilities to evade the latest security technologies, but also their business practices to meet the needs of money-motivated criminals across the globe. So it’s no surprise that so many cybercriminal ventures today have adjusted both their technology stacks and their

You can read the message in full, with many far more cheerful updates, here. It was posted after Verelox, a Netherlands hosting company, last week suffered what at first blush looked like a rampage from one of those ex-employees from Hell. In this case, it was an ex-IT admin who, Verelox initially thought, had walked

Technical support responded to the Pivnichna substation and took the automated circuit breakers off computer control, restoring power a little after 1 a.m. It was only the second confirmed case of a computer hack triggering an electrical blackout, and compared to the first, 12 months earlier also in Ukraine—it was a buzz, affecting far fewer

Over 800 different Android apps that have been downloaded millions of times from Google Play Store found to be infected with malicious ad library that silently collects sensitive user data and can perform dangerous operations. Dubbed “Xavier,” the malicious ad library, initially emerged in September 2016, is a member of AdDown malware family, potentially posing

Police in Zhengjiang — a wealthy Chinese province adjacent to Shanghai — has recently cracked down on an underground network which has obtained personal information associated with iPhone accounts and traded them for huge profits. Twenty-two suspects, who were spread across several Chinese provinces including Guangdong, Jiangsu and Fujian, have been detained for suspicion of

WannaCry, the biggest ransomware attack in the history, gained prominence very rapidly in the media globally after the ransomware infected more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries within just 72 hours. Governments, Intelligence agencies and law enforcement around the world have already started their investigations and are working closely with affected companies to track

The method—which was utilized in a recent spam campaign that tried to put in a bank-fraud backdoor alternately referred to as Zusy, OTLARD, and Gootkit—is notable as a result of it did not rely on macros, visual basic scripts, or JavaScript to deliver its payload. Those strategies are therefore wide used that several individuals are