Marcus Hutchins, a security researcher who also goes by the name MalwareTech, made headlines in May as the person who discovered, almost accidentally, the inbuilt killswitch in the WannaCry ransomware which caught the world unawares. Fast forward to August and the same person hailed as a hero who pr
With WannaCry and Petya attacks slowing down it was only a matter of time till the lessons learned from these attacks would be used by other cyber criminals. The creators of TrickBot have most certainly learnt how to increase the propagation exponentially of the malware using the lessons learnt from
With the arrest of Alexander Vinnick, a 38-year-old Russian who was believed to be one the creators and operators of BTC-e on money laundering charges. The total believed to be laundered through the platform totals over 4 Billion USD. The laundered funds are believed to be in conjunction with cyber-
Google’s Android security team have discovered and new and immensely powerful spyware termed Lippizan. Google claims the spyware was created by Equus Group, an Israeli based company who by their own account specializes in the development of “…of tailor made innovative solutions for law enforcement,
On Friday, 21 July 2017, a 29-year-old man pleaded guilty to hijacking over 900,000 routers from Deutsche Telekom’s network towards the end of 2016. The attack which leveraged a customized version of the Mirai malware according to the hacker accidentally denied many Germans and German companies with
Just weeks after American law enforcement agencies, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a joint non-public report warning of a critical infrastructure hack, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), one of Britain's secretive spying agency has rep
As of yesterday researchers at Trend Micro have reported someone trying to leverage the SambaCry vulnerability to install a backdoor Trojan on Linux machines running unpatched versions of Samba, a file sharing program. Researchers at Trend Micro confirmed that most of the attacks targeted network-at
The global cyber security company, Kaspersky, has landed itself in the headlines once more as the General Service Administration of the US has removed Kaspersky and its products from a list of approved vendors. The General Service Administration is responsible for federal government purchasing contr
When news broke on 6 July 2017, that companies who manage nuclear energy power stations within the US were hacked alarms were triggered. Rightly so, fears of what happened in Ukraine previously when its energy sector was essentially shut down by hackers must of being on many minds. On some other min
The recent variant of Petya, also called GoldenEye or NotPetya, is believed by security researchers globally to be malware type known as a wiper rather than the ransomware originally reported on. For the purposes of this article, the malware will be referred to solely as NotPetya for the remainder o