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2019-04-21 14:47:00 UTC
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The Weather Channel goes offline after ransomware attack

By Uzair Amir

The ransomware took The Weather Channel’s live transmission offline for almost an hour. Another day, another ransomware attack; this time The Weather Channel suffered a powerful ransomware attack forcing its live TV telecast to go offline for 90 minutes. See: WannaCry hero MalwareTech pleads guilty to writing banking malware The ransomware attack took place on […]

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2019-04-19 23:43:00 UTC
HackRead
HackRead
WannaCry hero MalwareTech pleads guilty to writing banking malware

By Ryan De Souza

MalwareTech is now facing 10 years in prison. In 2017, Marcus Hutchin who goes by the Twitter handle of MalwareTech halted the infamous WannaCry ransomware after registering its killswitch domain. As a result, Hutchin was hailed as WannaCry hero but in August the same year, MalwareTech was arrested by the FBI at Las Vegas airport when […]

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2019-04-19 21:58:00 UTC
Krebs on Security
Krebs on Security
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Writing, Selling Banking Malware

Marcus Hutchins, a 24-year-old blogger and malware researcher arrested in 2017 for allegedly authoring and selling malware designed to steal online banking credentials, has pleaded guilty to criminal charges of conspiracy and to making, selling or advertising illegal wiretapping devices.

Ne'er-Do-Well News Kronos Banking Malware Malwaretech Marcus Hutchins
2019-04-19 21:16:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
Microsoft’s Latest Patch Hoses Some Antivirus Software

McAfee, Sophos and Avast are among the antivirus software suites impacted.

Hacks Malware Vulnerabilities Web Security ArcaBit Avast Avira Client-Server Runtime Subsystem CSRSS Kerberos McAfee Microsoft Sophos
2019-04-19 20:00:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
Researchers Find Clues for Dramatically Reducing IDS Traffic Volume

Research at military labs and Towson University shows that identifying malicious activity may require much less captured data than has been the case.

2019-04-19 19:45:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
Three-Fourths of Consumers Don’t Trust Facebook, Threatpost Poll Finds

On the heels of several Facebook data privacy snafus this week - and over the past year - users no longer trust the platform.

Facebook Privacy Data Data Privacy Facebook Emails Social Media
2019-04-19 16:37:00 UTC
ThreatPost
ThreatPost
Insecure Ride App Database Leaks Data of 300K Iranian Drivers

A researcher said that millions of records were leaking 300,000 Tap30 drivers' names, ID numbers and phone numbers.

Cloud Security Vulnerabilities Data Database Exposed Data Leaking Dataset MongoDB NoSQL Data Tap30
2019-04-19 16:26:00 UTC
Ars Technica
Ars Technica
McAfee joins Sophos, Avira, Avast—the latest Windows update breaks them all

A range of fixes and workarounds have been published.

Tech Anti-malware Anti-virus Microsoft Patch Security Windows
2019-04-19 16:05:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
Russia Hacked Clinton's Computers Five Hours After Trump's Call

Mueller report finds that in July 2016, after then-candidate Donald Trump publicly called for Russia to "find the 30,000 emails," Russian agents targeted Hillary Clinton's personal office with cyberattacks.

2019-04-19 16:00:00 UTC
Dark Reading
Dark Reading
APT34 Toolset, Victim Data Leaked via Telegram

For the last month, an unknown individual or group has been sharing data and hacking tools belonging to Iranian hacker group APT34.

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