WIRED |
Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That's on the Rise
WIRED Last week news broke of a piece of ransomware in the wild masquerading as a porn app. The so-called Porn Droid app targets Android users and allows attackers to lock the phone and change its PIN number while demanding a $ 500 ransom from victims to … |
DailyTech |
Rombertik is a Bizarre, Scary Brilliant Piece of Self-Destructing Malware
DailyTech Not even the legendary Flame and Stuxnet viruses that the U.S. government unofficially used to target Iranian nuclear and oil facilities featured such wild and crafty code to avoid detection. The malware will literally destroy your system to try to … |
 Computerworld (blog) |
SCARY Korea vs. Korea cyber–warfare: Who is Whois Team?
Computerworld (blog) South Korean computers are crashing left, right, and center, according to reports this morning. An unknown hacking group, Whois Team, claims responsibility. Naturally, everyone's talking about another cyber-attack from communist North Korea. Analysis: Cyber warfare on the Korean Peninsula South Korea Eyes Pyongyang After Possible Cyber Attack South Korea under apparent cyber attack as computer networks crash at … |
 Betabeat |
Nonstop Cyber Warfare Is Your Scary New Jam
Betabeat Humanity's fear of “war without end” has yet to be completely fulfilled in the analog world, but state-sponsored cyber warfare has been afoot for years and is only getting worse. That's one takeaway from cyber security expert Pete Warren's report in … |