Posts Tagged ‘wannacry’

N. Korea stole cyber tools from NSA, carried out WannaCry ransomware attack – Microsoft chief

Microsoft President Brad Smith told ITV that he believed “with great confidence” that North Korea was behind the worldwide WannaCry cyberattack.  READ MORE: WannaCry hackers have not withdrawn any ransom bitcoin, surveillance shows “I think at this point that all observers in the know have concluded that WannaCry was caused by North Korea using cyber tools […]

WannaCry researcher arrest sends chills through the cybersecurity community

     The Wednesday arrest of cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins is sending chills through the cyber community. “It’s unclear if the Department of Justice knows what it just did with its handling of this indictment,” said Tor Ekeland, a lawyer who specializes in computer crimes. Researchers across the country have expressed fear and confusion after the […]

WannaCry Cyberattack: Deep State Assault on Cryptocurrencies?

WannaCry XXL? 2nd even bigger global cyber attack already underway

Cyber bandits have again deployed both the EternalBlue and DoublePulsar exploits developed and used by the NSA which were released by the ShadowBrokers hackers back in April. “Initial statistics suggest that this attack may be larger in scale than WannaCry, affecting hundreds of thousands of PCs and servers worldwide: because this attack shuts down SMB […]

NSA should ‘shoulder some blame’ for WannaCry ransomware attack – Chinese state media

A Wednesday editorial in the China Daily said that the NSA should “shoulder some of the blame, because the computer virus is based on one of the hacking tools that the agency created for its own use, which ended up in the hands of cyber criminals.” It notes the severity of the issue, stressing that […]

US INTEL BLAME WANNACRY RANSOMWARE ATTACK ON NORTH KOREA

The ransomware story has become a pretext for a Trump attack against North Korea. In the latest computer ransomware attacks, signs are pointing to frequent culprit: North Korea https://t.co/iFNp5Smiha — The New York Times (@nytimes) May 16, 2017   From The New York Times: Intelligence […]

Microsoft Releases WannaCry Patch for PCs Running Old Operating Systems

Microsoft Releases WannaCry Patch for PCs Running Old Operating Systems May 14th, 2017 I’m responsible for protecting some organizations from stuff like this. Here’s what I do: #1 If Windows is used, only operating systems currently supported by Microsoft are allowed. Even though I […]

Putin Denounces West for Creating WannaCry

Andrew AnglinDaily Stormer May 15, 2017 Putin, bro (speaking directly to him here, as he’s DS reader confirmed): don’t even bother telling them. This is how you’re going to win a World War. Ah well, I guess it doesn’t matter much. It’s not like the boomers who run this stuff are going […]

#Wannacry ransomware epidemic could spread as unsuspecting workers return to desks – Europol chief

Rob Wainwright, executive director of the European Union’s crime agency, said the spread of the ‘WannaCry’ virus was “unprecedented,” resulting in more than 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries.  READ MORE: Microsoft releases urgent OS patch in wake of #WannaCry ransomware blitz  “At the moment, we are facing an escalating threat,” Wainwright warned. “The […]

Microsoft releases urgent OS patch in wake of #WannaCry ransomware blitz

Microsoft XP received the new security patch three years after the computer giant discontinued support for the OS.  READ MORE: Ransomware virus plagues 100k computers across 99 countries  The patch release comes after a virus known as ‘WannaCry’ ransomware, which encrypts files and demands users pay for their release, infected more than 100,000 computers worldwide […]

Russian banks, railway giant among targets of WannaCry ransomware allegedly linked to NSA

The ‘WannaCry’ attacks were first reported worldwide on Friday and are estimated to have affected as many as 100,000 computers, including those of Russian Railways, the company reported Saturday. Ransomware virus plagues 100k computers across 99 countries “The IT system of Russian Railways has been attacked by a virus. The virus has been isolated. The […]

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