WhatsApp Just Stopped Working On Millions Of iPhones And Android Devices, Here’s What To Do – Forbes
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Microsoft exec: We stopped Russia from hacking 3 congressional campaigns
Microsoft’s Tom Burt talks about phishing attacks detected by Microsoft against political campaigns at the Aspen Security Summit.
In a panel discussion at the Aspen Institute’s Security Summit yesterday, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Customer Security and Trust Tim Burt said that in the course of hunting for phishing domains targeting Microsoft customers, members of Microsoft’s security team detected a site set up by Russian actors that was being used in an attempt to target congressional candidates.
“Earlier this year,” said Burt, “we did discover that a fake Microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks, and we saw metadata that suggested those phishing attacks were being directed at three candidates who are all standing for election in the midterm elections.” While Burt would not disclose who the candidates were, he did say that they “were all people who, because of their positions, might have been interesting from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint.”
Microsoft alerted US law enforcement and worked with the government to take down the sites. “We took down that domain and, working with the government, were able to prevent anyone from being infected by that particular attack,” Burt said. “They did not get in, they tried, they were not successful, and the government security teams get a lot of credit for that.”
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Security Expert Who Stopped NHS Attack Has ‘Admitted’ Creating Malware To Steal Bank Details – LADbible (blog)
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Security Expert Who Stopped NHS Attack Has 'Admitted' Creating Malware To Steal Bank Details
LADbible (blog) The British security expert who was called a hero after helping to stop a global cyber-attack has admitted to creating software designed to steal bank details, US prosecutors have said. Twenty-three-year old Marcus Hutchins, from Ilfracombe in Devon, … |
How I accidentally stopped a global Wanna Decryptor ransomware attack
I’ve finally found enough time between e-mails and Skype calls to write up the crazy events that occurred over Friday, which was supposed to be part of my week off. You’ve probably read about the Wanna Decryptor (aka WannaCrypt or WCry) fiasco on several news sites, but I figured I’d tell my story.
I woke up at around 10am and checked onto the UK cyber threat sharing platform where I had been following the spread of the Emotet banking malware, something that seemed incredibly significant until today. There were a few of your usual posts about various organisations being hit with ransomware, but nothing significant… yet. I ended up going out to lunch with a friend, meanwhile the WannaCrypt ransomware campaign had entered full swing.
When I returned home at about 2:30, the threat sharing platform was flooded with posts about various NHS systems all across the country being hit, which was what tipped me off to the fact this was something big. Although ransomware on a public sector system isn’t even newsworthy, systems being hit simultaneously across the country is. (Contrary to popular belief, most NHS employees don’t open phishing e-mails, which suggested that something to be this widespread it would have to be propagated using another method.)
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