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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:33:00 -0700

The notorious hackers behind a string of banking heists have left behind a clue that supports a long-suspected link to North Korea, according to security researchers.

The so-called Lazarus Group has been eyed as a possible culprit behind the heists, which included last February’s $81 million theft from Bangladesh’s central bank through the SWIFT transaction software.

However, hackers working for the group recently made a mistake: They failed to wipe the logs from a server the group had hacked in Europe, security firm Kaspersky Lab said on Monday.

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Hackers Are Emptying ATMs With a Single Drilled Hole and $15 Worth of Gear

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 19:30:29 +0000

Step aside, ATM skimmers. This new attack empties out all the cash in minutes. The post Hackers Are Emptying ATMs With a Single Drilled Hole and $15 Worth of Gear appeared first on WIRED.

ComputerWorld Independent

April 3, 2017 admin

UEFI flaws can be exploited to install highly persistent ransomware

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 11:31:00 -0700

Over the past few years, the world has seen ransomware threats advance from living inside browsers to operating systems, to the bootloader, and now to the low-level firmware that powers a computer’s hardware components.

Earlier this year, a team of researchers from security vendor Cylance demonstrated a proof-of-concept ransomware program that ran inside a motherboard’s Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) — the modern BIOS.

On Friday, at the Black Hat Asia security conference, the team revealed how they did it: By exploiting vulnerabilities in the firmware of two models of ultra compact PCs from Taiwanese computer manufacturer Gigabyte Technology.

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Project launches to find out if there is truly a link between cybercrime and autism

Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 08:57:00 -0700

Is there really a link between autism and cybercrime? A project launched today intends to find out.

When President Donald Trump proclaimed April 2 to be World Autism Awareness Day – actually it was the ninth annual such day – he cited CDC estimations that “Autism spectrum disorders affect an estimated one out of every 68 children in America.”

It seems Hollywood is trying to show how common autism is; Billy, the blue ranger, in Power Rangers, and Sesame Street’s Muppet Julia are recent characters with autism spectrum disorder which are not portrayed as Rain Man-like savants.

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April 3, 2017 admin

From hackers’ point of views: New study exposes their strategies

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 17:19:06 +0000

A recently released survey interviewed black-hat hackers to get a better sense of the strategies and methodologies today’s cyber criminals are using.

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April 3, 2017 admin

Why hackers are increasingly targeting electronic health records

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:41:02 +0000

Let’s take a closer look at why hackers are increasingly targeting electronic health records and how health care providers can protect themselves.

Security Wired

April 3, 2017 admin

Russian Hackers Have Used the Same Backdoor for Two Decades

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:40:39 +0000

A twenty-year-old record of one of the earliest ever cyberespionage campaigns suggests the same spy group still be alive and hacking. The post Russian Hackers Have Used the Same Backdoor for Two Decades appeared first on WIRED.

ComputerWorld Independent

April 3, 2017 admin

WikiLeaks’ Assange gets relief from left victory in Ecuador

Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:18:00 -0700

The win in Ecuador’s presidential elections of leftist government candidate Lenin Moreno will likely provide relief to WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who had been threatened with eviction from the country’s embassy in London by the opposition candidate.

The election in the South American country had aroused interest in part because the conservative opposition candidate, Guillermo Lasso, had said that if elected he would evict Assange within 30 days of assuming power, because it was costing the country too much to keep him at the embassy.

The embassy is being constantly monitored by U.K. police ever since Assange slipped into it in 2012 and was granted asylum by the Ecuador government. Police say they will arrest Assange if he comes out of the embassy to meet an extradition request from Sweden in connection with an investigation into a sexual assault. Assange supporters are concerned that he may be moved from Sweden to the U.S. to face charges in connection with several leaks of confidential U.S. government information.

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