Cyber Bites

All X-rated websites will require age verification from UK users from 15 July, the government has announced. Plans for the so-called ‘porn block’ have been postponed numerous times: it was due to start in April 2018, then at the end of 2018 and most recently on 1 April this year. Source: Huffington Post

Apple and Google have removed TikTok, which allows users to create and share videos, from their app stores in India. Source: BBC News

Indian IT services company Wipro is investigating a phishing attack, which hit some staff email accounts and launched attacks on customer environments Source: Computer Weekly

A new study from Outpost24 has discovered that almost one in four (23%) organizations do not carry out any form of security testing on their products before they are launched into the market. Source: Infosecurity

A new ransomware family called NamPoHyu Virus or MegaLocker Virus is targeting victims a bit differently than other ransomware. Instead of an executable running on a victim's computer, the attacker is running the ransomware locally and having it remotely encrypt accessible Samba servers. Source: Bleeping Computer

Bug affects only Chrome for iOS, not Safari and not any other Chrome version. Source: ZDnet

The Emotet malware gang is now using a tactic that has been previously seen used by nation-state hackers. The group has been spotted this week reviving old email conversation threads and injecting links to malicious files. Users involved in the previous email exchanges would receive an email spoofed to appear from one of their previous correspondents, but actually coming from Emotet servers. The email conversation thread would be left intact, but the Emotet gang would...

Organised crime groups are using computer games to recruit teenagers to become the next generation of cybercriminals, police say. Detectives believe that young people with autism are most at risk of being groomed by gangs online, with four in five cybercriminals now coming from a background in gaming.Source: The Times

Julian P. Assange, 47, the founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested today in the United Kingdom pursuant to the U.S./UK Extradition Treaty, in connection with a federal charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for agreeing to break a password to a classified U.S. government computer. According to court documents unsealed today, the charge relates to Assange’s alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States.Source: United...

Greenville, N.C., has effectively been knocked offline by a ransomware attack with the city IT department having shut down the majority of its servers to limit the extent of the attack. In a Facebook post city officials said the incident began on April 10 and TheReflector.com reported a city spokesperson a ransom note was received but did not reveal further details on that aspect of the situation. Additionally, the city has brought in cybersecurity help...