The SamSam ransomware group seems to have gotten to a “great” start in 2018, hitting several high-profile targets such as hospitals, a city council, and an ICS firm. Reported attacks include the one against the Hancock Health Hospital in of Greenfield, Indiana; Adams Memorial Hospital in Decatur, Indiana; the municipality of Farmington, New Mexico; cloud-based EHR (electronic health records) provider Allscripts; and an unnamed ICS (Industrial Control Systems) company in the...
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Security experts are warning of a new Mirai variant targeting ARC processors, which could have an even bigger impact than the notorious malware on which it is based. RISC-based ARC processors are widely used in IoT and embedded systems and said to beshipped in over 1.5 billion products each year. The new threat — named Okiru, which is Japanese for “wake up” — was first spotted...
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Still using BitTorrent to exclusively download legally acquired content like operating system images or files you want to share privately with friends? If so, you might want to double-check your security settings to protect yourself from what researchers at Google’s Project Zero are calling a “low complexity hack” affecting Transmission and other popular BitTorrent clients. The flaw could leave your computer vulnerable to control by malicious hackers, but you can...
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A group of Princeton and Purdue researchers has shown that it’s possible to mount a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against hard disk drives via acoustic signals. Threat severity Hard disk drives (HDDs) have become the most commonly-used type of non-volatile storage due to their increased reliability, fault tolerance, storage capacity, and so on. “These technological advances in HDDs, along with the ever-increasing need for storing the...
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OnePlus has confirmed that its systems have been breached, following reports of credit card fraud from customers who bought a phone from the company. The phone maker sent an email to customers Friday, saying customers’ credit card numbers, expiry dates, and security codes “may have been compromised.” The email, posted by Peter Smallbone on Twitter, said: “As soon as we were made aware of the attack, we...
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