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New ransomware strain pops up for one day
IT World Canada The latest strain discovered made a brief appearance over the weekend, when researchers saw it being distributed through the EITest malware campaign into the RIG exploit kit. Dubbed PyCL by Bleeping Computer because it is programmed in Python, the … |
In a battle between a rodent and a 17-mile-long superconducting machine designed to smash protons, one might expect the rodent to fare poorly. And in this case, it did, though not without the little guy doing some damage of its own.
From a BBC report:
The Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at Cern is offline after a short circuit – caused by a weasel.
The unfortunate creature did not survive the encounter with a high-voltage transformer at the site near Geneva in Switzerland.
The LHC was running when a “severe electrical perturbation” occurred in the early hours of Friday morning.
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Elusive FinSpy Spyware Pops Up in 10 Countries
New York Times (blog) It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it down. Now it is popping up across the globe, from … Who is using the commercial cyberespionage tool FinFisher? |
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