The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.
Tag Archives: Malware
Don’t let the crooks ‘borrow’ your home router as a hacking server
Crooks don’t have to break *into* your network to benefit – they can bounce *off* it so you take the blame and look like a hacker yourself.
Baldr malware unpicked with a little help from crooks’ bad opsec
New research from Sophos takes an exhaustive look at the Baldr password stealer.
Georgia hit with malware yet again
The Department of Public Safety says it won’t pay, but given the umpteen times the state’s agencies have been hit, somebody’s not listening.
WannaCry hero gets off lightly, avoids prison – was justice done?
Wrote malware for money, went straight, got busted, didn’t go to prison. Has US cybercrime enforcement gone soft?
BlueKeep guides make imminent public exploit more likely
A public exploit for Microsoft’s BlueKeep vulnerability is just days away. In fact, for those with deep pockets, it’s already here.
EvilGnome – Linux malware aimed at your laptop, not your servers
EvilGnome was written to target the comparatively small but committed community who use Linux on their laptops.
GandCrab ransomware revisited – is it back under a (R)evil new guise?
Did the GandCrab ransomware gang really ‘retire’ when they said, or did they never go away?
Ransomware attackers demand $1.8m from US college
The school, located in the Bronx and serving around 8,000 students, has declined to say whether it will pay up.
Bust the password for an air-gapped machine – with its keyboard LEDs
Researchers have developed a technique for reading data from air-gapped PCs using LEDs. Cue dynamic hacker music now!