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Malware authors are using an NSA hacking tool to infect Windows computers with a new cryptocurrency miner. Detected under the generic name of Trojan.BtcMine.1259, this trojan was first spotted last week by Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web. The trojan uses an NSA implant called DOUBLEPULSAR to infect computers that run unsecured SMB services. This implant (NSA term for malware) is a simple backdoor that allows attackers to execute code on the infected machines. The miscreants behind...

Hackers appear to have pulled off a $1 million heist with ransomware in South Korea. The ransomware attacked more than 153 Linux servers that South Korean web provider Nayana hosted, locking up more than 3,400 websites on June 10. In Nayana's first announcement a few days later, it said the hackers demanded 550 bitcoins to free up all the servers -- about $1.62 million. Four days later, Nayana said it'd negotiated with the attackers and...

Honda Motor Co said on Wednesday it halted production at a domestic vehicle plant for a day this week after finding the WannaCry ransomware that struck globally last month in its computer network. The automaker shut production on Monday at its Sayama plant, northwest of Tokyo, which produces models including the Accord sedan, Odyssey Minivan and Step Wagon compact multipurpose vehicle and has a daily output of around 1,000 vehicles. Honda discovered on Sunday that...

The European Union warned Monday that a cyber-attack on any one member state could merit a response by all members of the bloc, amid growing fears of hackers holding governments to ransom. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Gadgets.ndtv.com  

Every day, the College of Southern Idaho sees an average of 800,000 to 1.1 million malicious attempts to get into its computer network perimeter.   View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Magic Valley

Rights group Privacy International (PI) has sent Brexit negotiators advice and technology designed to mitigate the risk of surveillance by intelligence agencies on the opposite side.   View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Info Security Magazine

The total number of malware samples targeting smart devices has reached more than 7,000, with over half of these emerging in 2017, according Kaspersky Lab’s researchers. With more than six billion smart devices being used across the globe, people are increasingly being put at risk from malware targeting their connected lives.   View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Information Age

Nayana, a web hosting provider based in South Korea, announced it is in the process of paying a three-tier ransom demand of nearly $1 million worth of Bitcoin, following a ransomware infection that encrypted data on customer' servers.   View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

The security industry was left shaken by the malware outbreak dubbed WannaCry. Starting on May 12, the attack rapidly spread to hundreds of countries, holding hundreds of thousands of computer systems hostage via a ransomware virus. The attack was slowed somewhat accidentally by a cybersecurity researcher who, during the course of his investigation, registered and sinkholed a domain being leveraged by the malware. View full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Info Security Magazine

The UK's Government Digital Service – the Whitehall body responsible for transforming government IT – is having problems paying staff because of, er, technical issues. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register