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Hackers have managed to steal healthcare data on more than half of Norway's population with the attack taking place on January 8th. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

Security researchers FireEye have discovered a new malware strain that targets telecommunications, insurance and financial services industries which can steal passwords and launch DDoS attacks. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IBTimesUK

A hospital in Indiana, US has paid the ransom of $55,000 to remove ransomware from the systems despite having backups in place. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

It has been found that the North Korean hacking group Lazarus were behind the South Korean cyber attacks that targetted cryptocurrency exchanges. Lazarus is also the main culprit for the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack and WannaCry. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: IBTimes UK

Security researchers have discovered that Triton, a malware that allows hackers to gain remote access to energy facilities' safety systems, has been made available to download online. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IBTimes UK

A photo of post-it note with what appears to be the password for Hawaii's emergency agency was found to have been stuck to a screen, raising question marks over its security practises. This comes only days after the island went into panic after a false missile alert was sent to resident phones. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IBTimes UK

A photo of post-it note with what appears to be the password for Hawaii's emergency agency was found to have been stuck to a screen, raising question marks over its security practises. This comes only days after the island went into panic after a false missile alert was sent to resident phones. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IBTimes UK

According to security researchers at US cyber firm ICEBRG have located four Chrome extensions which house malevolent code that were available through the official Chrome Web Store which allowed attackers to send commands through to users' browsers in the JavaScript code form. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

In the latest Ponemon Institute "2018 Global Cloud Data Security Study", results have shown that organisations in the UK (35%), Brazil (34%) and Japan (31%) are less cautious than those in Germany (61%) when sharing sensitive and confidential information stored in the cloud with third parties. View Full Story  ORIGINAL SOURCE: Helpnetsecurity

News has surfaced that a new strain of malware called RubyMiner is being used by cyber criminals to target outdated Linux and Windows serves to secretly mine cryptocurrency. According to Check Point researchers, the criminal has been using RubyMiner to plant the cryptocurrency miner XMrig on vulnerable systems to hijack users' CPU processing power and covertly mine Monero coins. The attacks are thought to have began from the 9th January, 2018. View Full Story ORIGINAL...